2010 Contextural Self-Directed Summer Residency Call for Submission

We are currently inviting expressions of interest from those who would like to be part of this dynamic and vital new addition to Calgary's cultural scene as participants in a summer residency and end of residency exhibition. Participants would also have the possibility to continue working with the group in developing a community of fibre artists through workshops, critique sessions and exhibitions throughout the year.

Interested parties should send an application (as listed below) to: residency@contextural.ca with the subject:
Summer Residency Application
Deadline for submissions is April 1st @ midnight.

Dates for the one month residency are May 30th – June 30th or July 25th – Aug 22nd
Dates for the three month residency are May 30th – Aug 22nd

NEW!!! This year Contextural is offering the Contextural Summer Residency Scholarship, consisting of studio fees for the three month summer residency ($250 value) and $250 for supplies. The scholarship will be awarded based on the quality and completeness of the application.

Contextural Residency Submission

Epcor Window - karin's stuff

Check out the link (scroll down to Visual Arts) for publicity about this exhibition and my part in it.
I hope to put up some images of the installations themselves shortly. The abstract image, shown above, is the end product of the works and a piece that is displayed in the exhibition space alongside installations of shibori stitched textile works.

Now I am wondering about applying for the Ledge gallery space for the wormy things I am working on now. Or should I aim to get into a more commercial space?

Slow Cloth

A couple of years ago, i thought it was a "craze" and wanted nothing to do with it. Now i am completely enamoured of the process.
Taking time and patience to create, whether by hand or machine, or a combination of both, is a good lesson in working intuitively and instinctually.
I post this because at last i have found a use for some of the cloth from Siri's silk screen printing workshop during the summer '09 residency at ACAD:


In the upper right side is a piece of that, combined with my own hand dyed fabrics, and a raggedy holed piece pulled from the communal scrap bin at the college also.

Slow Cloth has been a real lesson for me in patience--i am fast naturally at tasks, at learning, at reading, at art (which is *not* always a good thing)------but i began to wonder if the speed meant something was, not lost, just never found in the first place. I still find it difficult to move into that space where it happens naturally, but i think my Instinctual Bones are getting stronger :} and when i'm in that zone, i am IN that zone. I welcome going deeper into this part of my life and art.

It's harder to be slow, methodical and in tune with things, than it is to just drive right over everything. But if you do it fast, the mistakes can be harder to fix.