The New Art of the Loom to be presented in Montreal at Musee des Maitres et Artisans du Quebec

Thoma Ewen, Artistic Director of Moon Rain Centre, arranged for The New Art of the Loom to be presented in Montreal at Musee des Maitres et Artisans du Quebec , after it's presentation in Gatineau as part of La Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles en Outaouais 2013.


Bonjour,

Barbara Heller(Canada), Still life with bird,2003

Le maître tapissier Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) dit un jour : « La tapisserie est le rêve que nous accrochons sur nos murs. » Cet art ancien renaît aujourd'hui non seulement pour son attrait décoratif et architectural, mais aussi grâce au talent d'une nouvelle génération d'artistes qui s'y intéressent. Ainsi, NEW ART OF THE LOOM, Tapisserie internationale contemporaine révèle les rêves de tisserands contemporains, combinant les techniques anciennes à une nouvelle forme d'expression artistique émergente.

 

Le commissaire de cette exposition itinérante, Dirk Holger, tapissier de l’école d’Aubusson et dernier assistant de Jean Lurçat, vous invite à admirer les œuvres des artistes de réputation internationale : Christine Altona, Malgorzata Buszek, Thomas Cronenberg, Thoma Ewen, Susan Hart-Henegar, Ibolya Hegyi, Barbara Heller, Dirk Holger, Peter Horn, Susan Iverson, William Kentridge, Lialia Kuchma, Ulrika Leander, Sayed Mahmoud, Ann Naustdal, Inge Norgaard, Lorna Ramlochan singh, Jon-Eric Riis, Bum Soo Song, Miyuki Tatsumi, Joyce Tien et Henriette Zegersten Horn.

 

Au plaisir de vous voir au vernissage, le jeudi 17 octobre 2013 à 18h.

L’exposition se poursuit jusqu’au 15 décembre.

 

Pierre Wilson

Directeur-conservateur

Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec

615 avenue Sainte-Croix, Montréal, H4L 3X6

514-747-7367 p 7201

 

 

Working forward in Tapestry...Archie Brennan & Susan Martin Maffei

On Sept 20-23 a very successful workshop was held at Moon Rain with the incredible instructors Archie Brennan & Susan Martin Maffei. This was part of the 2013 International Triennial of textile Arts in the Outaouais.

 

 

Photos by Moon Rain / Ken Ewen

The New Art of the Loom

The New Art of the Loom: Contemporary International Tapestries exhibition, curated by Dirk Holger, now on exhibition at the Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana.
The show will travel next to Gatineau’s Galerie Montcalm as one of the featured exhibitions for La Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles en Outaouais 2013, on exhibit in Gatineau from August 29 to October 6, 2013

Below is a quote from Dirk Holger:

“Here are the first pictures of the show.  This is the best tapestry exhibition I ever did!
Enough space in-between....The opening reception was also wonderful...More later...
My best,  Dirk”

  

14th Lodz Triennale in the Central Museum of Textiles

Helga Berry, Monique Lehman, Thoma Ewen

 

 

Photo Krystyna Sadej

This picture is from the14th Lodz Triennale in the Central Museum of Textiles
Helga Berry, from Anchorage Alaska is on the left, Monique Lehman from California is in the middle and Thoma Ewen on the right.
Helga Berry was the founder and director of The International Tapestry Network called ITNET. She published an amazing journal, issues of which Thoma still has 30 years later.
This was the first time Thoma met Helga in person, though her activities were inspiring for many years.  Helga brought the international tapestry world together in the 80’s, before the American Tapestry Alliance and the Canadian Tapestry Network were formed.”
This was also the first time Thoma met Monique Lehman in person, although their works have been exhibited in WOVEN BRIDGES exhibitions in the City of Ottawa art galleries and in Almonte at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum. What a delight to travel and work with this very talented, deeply intelligent and capable artist, truly a contemporary international figure in textile art, who is at home anywhere in the world.

WOVEN BRIDGES vernissage/finnisage on May 9, 2013

Below are some images from the vernissage/finnisage for WOVEN BRIDGES

Joanna Jarecka, Curator of Muzeum Tkactwa, and  WOVEN BRIDGES artists Krystyna Sadej (Canada/Poland), Thomas Cronenberg (UK), Thoma Ewen (Canada), Monique Lehman (USA/Poland), and Ewa Bartosz Mazus (Poland)

 

 

Thomas Cronenberg, Krystyna Sadej, Director of Muzeum Tkactwa in Kamienna Gora, Barbara Stadnik, and Thoma Ewen, with Thoma’s tapestries in the background.

 

Photos by L.Janiak

Sky Streams Tapestry

Recently Moon Rain's Artistic Director completed a tapestry commission. Below are images of Sky Streams, a tapestry designed and woven by Thoma Ewen for an Edmonton residence

New Videos

Please check out the new videos at http://moonraincentre.blogspot.ca/p/videos.html

These were produced by Liana Voia and used with her permission. More of her interviews can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd315lkNlFFgOfeJxKwu4Vg

Images from Woven Bridges

The Woven Bridges exhibit at Muzeum Tkactwa, the Museum of Weaving in Kamienna Gora, Poland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photos Ewa Bartosz Mazus