I want to share with you a project I just completed for the Textile Design class I am taking right now at the University of British Columbia. This is a class aimed at art educators and consists of introducing you to a slew of techniques. The Project Scope: inquire into…
I am brainstorming text ideas for a craftivist project for the Textile Design class I am taking at the University of British Columbia. I gave a presentation on craftivism a couple of weeks ago for one of my other assignments. The thing is, I’ve been wanting to get into street…
What is your mother language? Mine is Italian. February 21st is International Mother Language Day. This event has been celebrated since February 2000 “to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. (See the UNESCO site for more info). I have to admit this is the first year I’ve heard about…
Some days are very fluid, creativity just pours out, the brain churns, churns, and churns out images, ideas, colours, words…and other days there’s absolutely nothing. I mean what happened, it’s just suddenly all gone! Ahhhh!!! (a scream of horror). Truth be told I don’t really like surfing the net much…
I am so excited to announce my mail art project with the theme “This is Where I go.” I have created a blog for the project where you can find out what it’s all about and how to participate: http://thisiswhereigomailart.wordpress.com All submissions will go on the project blog but will also…
I am happy to say I have kept up my timed 5-minute practice experiment that I started a couple of weeks ago. It feels pretty good doing this quick practice so I am committing to more of it… maybe for a year, maybe less. I’m not good with super long…
This slow art experiment was again inspired by The Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman. He suggests in his book to work on a creative piece for one week by adding only one element each day. I decided to try this on a wood block that I had worked on but…
When I started the 5-minute collage experiment, I was inspired to create a bunch of mail art and to send it to some family and friends. Up to now, I had only been responding to calls for mail art exhibitions and to calls from individuals with personal projects. I thought…
It feels sometimes like we/I spend too much time setting goals and figuring out what we want to achieve. I think it is an obsession with our society and I think I think about it too much. I often wish I could live a simpler life without all the modern…
This past Saturday I facilitated a workshop in mail art. I talked a little about the history and what mail art looked like before and now. We had several people in the workshop that had been active in mail art and some that are now active in the movement. It…