Bill is an energetic and passionate quilt-maker, motivated to create work that changes the way folks view the world.His work pushes limits, challenges tradition, redefines quilt-making, and explores alternate materials and techniques.He is a storyteller and quilts are his medium. While the experiences and issues addressed in his work are his own, viewers react to them on both a general and a personal level. His goal is for viewers to think, react, have conversations; that they’ll see his work as true and honest; something that matters; something that will make a difference.

Dana has a master’s degree in architecture. She worked in Prague and Toronto architectural firms before switching to textile art. In 1978, Dana established and ran the company Artacious, designing and painting textile art wall pieces, silk fabrics and artwear. Since moving from Toronto to Canmore in 1997, Dana has become involved in the Alberta art community and is now a full-time studio artist, working in mixed media, acrylics and textiles. Dana won many awards for her art locally, nationally and internationally; one of the local awards was the textile art competition for Canmore Art Trust ...

Emerance Baker is an Upper Cayuga/Hungarian textiles based craftsperson who lives in a little log cabin in the country beside Stoney Lake in the Kawarthas, Ontario. Emerance loves all things textiles and slow craft but focuses her studio work on custom garment making, bag design, surface pattern design, textile printing, and textile dying. Given her concern for the environment she prioritizes zero waste and sustainable craft in her studio practices. She's a retired educator and researcher who loves to teach in her studio and continues to learn as much as she can about textile craft. 

LEECH GALLERYAs a family of visual artists (Cindy, Henry, and Bill Buzádi), we have developed the Leech Gallery Artist Collective which produces, exhibits and sells, original artwork including garments and accessories. We collaborate on our collection in our shared studios based in Toronto's Lakeshore Village Artists' Cooperative. Leech Gallery aims to provide an artistic form of self-expression through wearable art. We treat the garment as our canvas. The wearer choses a one-of-a-kind piece that speaks to them and, through social interactions, participates in an ongoing, travelling ...

Jill Priceis a Canadian artist grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Anishinaabeg peoples in Barrie, Ontario. Working at the intersections of craft, drawing, performance and environmental activism, Price achieved her BFA and B.Ed. at the University of Western Ontario and received SSHRC research fellowships for her OCADU MFA thesisLand as Archive: A Collection of Seen & Unseen Shadows. Also receiving a SSHRC research fellowship for a research-creation PhD at Queen’s University, Price’s thesis From Unsettling to Unmaking investigate how unmaking can be a ...

My objective is a cross over of fine art and craft, using painting's forms at times to display craft's forms.This mixture allows me to explore both areas.The first image is called "Garden Patch" #1, one of a series of four showing a narrative of the growth of a plant to the form of a textile. It is made of clothes line cording, the series is on my website in the gallery called "Concepts and Other Musings."The second image is a sculptural form, made from children's stuffed animals taken apart and restitched together to form what I have titled as "Soft Picasso" because of the eyes that look at ...

Gezellig Studio textiles are handmade by Hamilton, Ontario, artist and writer Kristy Woudstra. With the intention of sustainability, Kristy produces modern and meaningful quilts and wall-hangings with all-natural fibres. Her line of stuffed animals, called the Grumpy Faces, are made with felt that is created with recycled plastic bottles. What does "gezellig" (heh-sell-ick) mean? It's a Dutch word that doesn't have a direct English translation. It's more of a feeling or state of mind. Think of those special moments when you're completely present, sharing a laugh with loved ones without a care ...

textiles dyed with rust rusted metal woven with textiles  creating art and song within the forest  a w a k e n i n g  star formed and sky bound  everything is falling to land 

Leisa Rich is an experimental artist who transforms the common and alternative in unique ways, predominantly using fiber processes and materials. She makes art and hyper-real environments that suspend reality and invite interaction.Rich holds MFA, BFA and BEd Art degrees. She has exhibited and is featured in notable museums, galleries, books and interviews. She published a children's book in 2015 and a series of How-To art books in 2019. Rich has taught art for 50 years.Her work is in the permanent collections of ProDemnity Insurance, Delta Airlines Inc., Hilton Hotels, Emory Healthcare, The ...

As a Maker of Hand Bound Books, i use Japanese decorative papers and bookcloth, quality archival papers and occasionally snakeskin to create beautiful journals, sketchbooks and albums to serve the creative impulse of anyone who writes, draws, paints, journals, collages, photographs...(Images 1 & 2)As a maker of Woven Paper Textile, I employ appropriated and original images digitally printed on paper, interwoven with metallic and holographic threads. Weave structures partially obscure the image, nodding to the capricious nature of memory, while the shimmering threads hint at the numinous, ...

I combine knits, sheer, faux fur and selected upscaled fabric to create soft wearable art. Originally trained in multimedia design, I formerly created commissioned digital art collage while working in digital content. Currently I use fabric collage as a form of self-expression while focusing on colour and texture.

General MaritaSetas Ferro's artistic practice is characterized by her relentlessexperimentation with unconventional materials and techniques. She transformsrecycled materials into sculptural pieces and seamlessly integrates differentelements into her installations, continually pushing the boundaries oftraditional art forms. Her work is not only innovative but also highlyinteractive, often inviting viewer participation and blurring the lines betweenartist and audience. By creating immersive environments designed for interactionand engagement, she fosters a deep sense of connection and shared ...

Golden Dragonfly Beading by MarybethBead Artist – Weaver of Memory, Story, and LightI have been a bead artist for over 60 years, weaving intricate, one-of-a-kind beaded tapestries that tell stories rooted in imagination, culture, and quiet devotion. My work draws on a lifetime of beading experience and teaching, shaped by my deep connection to the land and to my community.Each tapestry begins as a sketch—an idea caught on paper—then translated into a digital beading pattern. I weave on a loom that is as unique as my work itself: crafted from a discarded television tower, it stands as a symbol ...

Using a multidisciplinary approach in my working process, I employ a wide range of techniques and materials: hand-bleaching, stamping, cyanotype, quilting, embroidery, pyrography, weaving, patchwork, collage and appliqué. The most important aspect of my work which I return to again and again is the exploration of clothing as an art object, its depiction and deconstruction.Through the use of primitivism, natural materials, patterns and animistic imagery, I return to the apparent simplicity and integrity of indigenous cultures and ethnicities with a harmony of synthesis in all areas of society: ...

Born in North Bay, Ontario, Paulette Marie Sauvé was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1992, at the Université du Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). In the 1970s, she studied at the Institut des Arts appliqués in Montreal, and in 1974 was awarded a government sponsored trip to France that included visits to tapestry studios and meeting specialists in ancient dyes, notably at the Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris. This inspired her to weave on a high-warp Gobelins style loom, and also to write two books, one about the art of creating with natural dyes and the other about spinning a variety of ...

Inspiration Vintage is the result of my passion for things from the past. I love to create vintage inspired undergarments and accessories. My pieces are sassy, comfy and lovingly handmade using cotton and bamboo fibres in sizes XS-2X.

Sheila Thompson, is a woman in science and a seasoned fibre artist with over 18 years of expertise in fine woolen and silk art felting. Sheila crafts geo-centric, organic and eco-focused pieces using advanced wet felting techniques. Her work passionately addresses climate and environmental issues, weaving narratives around themes like human-environmental clashes, political short-sightedness, social justice and celebrations of eco-phenomena. She situates much of her work in the year 2050 to advocate for decision making that considers the long term implications. She is a member of the ...

Fiber Fine Artist. Felting technique and Mixed Media

Bio Valerie Carew(Toronto, Ontario) is an interdisciplinary artist who exploreshuman/land relationships through performance, body based sculpture, installation,painting and fibre craft practice. Immersive role-play and biomimicry are combined withsculpture and textile craft to express experiences with land and identity. Valerie'ssculptural works are designed for interplay and physical contact with the human body.She incorporates nostalgia, myth-making and material transformation to imagine newfutures defined by a greater connection to the wild. StatementEngagement with land is a big ...

Viktoria Brave is an emerging textile artist. Broadly characterized as 'research-creation', their work explore the entanglements of beings and systems amidst the shared 'fabric-of-existence' of our contemporary era (ie. the Anthropocene). Using thread as both research theme, creative metaphor and medium, Viktoria practices weaving, quilting and increasingly, embroidery, to narratively and visually tell the story of the 21st century -- invoking archetypes and re-interpreting myths along the way. One of Viktoria's quilt, 'Drunkard Earth', has received the 2nd prize in the Novice category of the ...