This post is for those participants from the recent Mail Art Workshop I taught through the Britannia Art Gallery. I’m sharing here, online and book resources I brought to the workshop. Unfortunately I forgot my camera phone so could not document the great work that was being produced. So I’m…
Laura
I am proud to be a member of the Arts & Culture Committee at Britannia Community Centre–my neighbourd community centre–and want to share with you this project that we have developed and is now in it’s third year of running. The EAST FEAST is a micro-funding event that supports local…
In February I wrote a post about my intention to create a craftivist project on the minimum wage. Glad to say I have followed through. Making this a school project certainly motivated me, but now I feel I’m onto something–I don’t think it will be just a one-off. A good…
Back in January I announced the launch of my mail art project titled “this is where i go.” I am happy to say that to date I have received 50 submissions from all over the world! I am hoping for about 120-150 submissions. All entries will be exhibited at Britannia…
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…