Join textile artist and educator Natalie Grambow for an inspiring weekend of colour, creativity, and sustainable fashion exploration. Using plants, natural dyes, and upcycled textiles, teens will experiment with printmaking, surface design, and wearable art techniques to create unique fabric pieces and transformed clothing.Teens will explore botanical printing, shibori-inspired resist dyeing, and creative textile processes while learning how art and sustainability can work together. Through guided projects and playful experimentation, teens will build creative intuition, develop new artistic skills, and explore further connections with nature, patterns, colour, sustainability and fashionIn this hands-on workshop, teens will:
-Experiment with botanical printmaking and natural colour extraction
-Learn eco-friendly textile and upcycling techniques
-Transform fabrics and clothing through dyeing, printing, and design
-Explore pattern, texture, layering, and composition
-Compose a variety of small works while building confidence in creative experimentation
-Discover connections between sustainability, fashion, art, and nature
Join us for the Opening Reception of exhibitions by Carlyn Yandle, Marianne Hansen, and Holly Lowe on Saturday, April 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
In the Main Gallery, Carlyn Yandle’s Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement. Grappling with critical environmental, political, and social issues, and offering possibilities for different futures, Yandle creates her pieces over the course of months or years with materials that are thrown away but never gone.
Dedicated to the birds of prey on the Sunshine Coast, Marianne Hansen’s Birds of Prey in the Eve Smart Gallery features fibre sculpted birds alongside their prey in natural settings. Highlighting their delicate forms and powerful presences, Marianne Hansen’s fibre sculptures reflect these animal’s grace, power, and perception; and encourage the viewer to reflect on the raptors of the Sunshine Coast, our coexistence with them, and the impact that we have on their environments.
In Joe’s Lounge, Holly Lowe’s Inkscapes explores the fluidity and flow of colour and texture using alcohol ink. Colour itself serves as the primary inspiration; the way that hues blend, contrast, and transform drives each composition. The medium of alcohol ink on synthetic paper enhances the vividness and transparency of the colours, contributing to the flowing aesthetic of the works and demonstrating a spectrum of expression, from recognizable landscapes interpreted through an abstract lens to completely non-representational forms.
Dedicated to the birds of prey on the Sunshine Coast, this exhibition in the Eve Smart Gallery features fibre sculpted birds alongside their prey in natural settings. Highlighting their delicate forms and powerful presences, Marianne Hansen’s fibre sculptures reflect these animal’s grace, power, and perception; and encourage the viewer to reflect on the raptors of the Sunshine Coast, our coexistence with them, and the impact that we have on their environments. The intention is to raise the level of awareness about how many different raptors live on our beautiful coast, what habitats they choose to live in, and what types of prey they seek out. Many of these birds have adapted to living within the human habitat. How do we consciously ensure the continuation of these natural wonders?
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday April. 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle for a free Community Stitch Session. Drawing on the scrap-quilt tradition of making something out of nothing, each participant is invited to hand stitch an improvisational 12 in. quilt block; a literal building block that can then be used as a personal artwork, use/gift object, or as a contribution to the ongoing ‘Hearth’ social engagement art project. All materials required are supplied, although participants are welcome to bring their own old clothes or fabrics to incorporate into their block if they wish. Learn a new life skill, create with other makers in our community, learn more from Carlyn Yandle about her artwork and her creative process, and find new ways to recycle old clothing and fabrics.
This event is free to attend and registration is not required. Find more information about Carlyn Yandle, her exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, and her ongoing social-engagement art project ‘Hearth” online at www.gpag.ca.
Join Marianne Hansen on Wed. April 8th, 1pm – 3pm, to learn needle felting and fibre sculpting techniques and to make a spring hare. Tickets are $65, with a 10% discount for GPAG members, and include a kit of the supplies needed to make one hare. There is a max of 15 participants, so register soon! Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
Thursdays Drop In. All are welcome, bring a project to work on, come to see, or stay for a chat. Coffee and tea available.
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
Thursdays to Jan 26. For Art and Activism is a drop in from 10-2pm at the qathet Art Centre. Free, by donations.
All skill levels.
Everyone is welcome!
Please come and check it out: sew, stitch, mend… and even help the planet! Tea and coffee available.
September 18; October 16; November 27
Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery
FREE
Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.
Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.
September 18; October 16; November 27
Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery
FREE
Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.
Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.
Plus Virtual Artist Talk Aug 13, 2-3pm on FB.
3 textile artists from 3 different corners of the world explore what “this place” means to them. They explore the unique characteristics of where they live and work and their connection to these distinctive settings. @hedges.madeleine from Australia @edwinamackinnon from the UK, and Catherine Nicolls @ravensthread from Gibsons, Canada, each look at what connects them to their individual places, how they perceive and experience their environment and the emotional attachments of belonging to “this place”.
