When Thirteen Moons Entwine

International textile arts event in the Outaouais Aug 15 to Oct 10
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When Thirteen Moons Entwine ... Artists

When Thirteen Moons Entwine International textile arts event in the Outaouais Aug 15 to Oct 10

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Moon Rain Centre is proud to announce the participating artists for the on-site installations as part of the upcoming When Thirteen Moons Entwine event. They are...

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Irene Anton GERMANY ● Carole Baillargeon QUÉBEC
Ewa Bartosz-Mazus POLAND ● Denise Coker QUÉBEC
Joanne De Nobriga UK ● Nadine Dupeux FRANCE
Claire Guerette QUÉBEC ● Andie Haltrich QUÉBEC

Peter Harris CANADA ● Jocelyne Ladouceur QUÉBEC

Hope Maclean QUÉBEC ● Edith Meusnier FRANCE

Gaël Morin FRANCE ● Johanna Nousiainen QUÉBEC
Kathryn Pannepacker USA ● Ali Rabjohns UK

Hannah Ranger QUÉBEC ● Nadine Richard FRANCE

Krystyna Sadej CANADA ● Nathalie Levasseur QUEBEC

Jolanta Sprawka QUÉBEC ● Marie Pier St-George CANADA
Ixchel Suarez CANADA ● Liane Thiry-Smith CANADA
owen tuf QUÉBEC ● Jeanne Vaillancourt CANADA

When Thirteen Moons Entwine Workshops

TEXTILE ART WORKSHOPS

INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE ARTS EVENT IN THE OUTAOUAIS
WHEN THIRTEEN MOONS ENTWINE

at Moon Rain Centre

Group Felting - Aug.28 Claire Guerette - QUÉBEC
Family Weaving - Aug.28. Kathryn Pannepacker - USA
Moon Creatures - Aug.28 Ali Rabjons - UK
Fire and Fibre - Aug.29. Hope Maclean - QUÉBEC
Closed Vessel Wet Feltmaking - Aug.29 Hannah Ranger - QUÉBEC
Felt Making Make a Moon - Aug.29 Liane Thiry-Smith - CANADA
Marathon Weaving - Aug.29-30 Kathryn Pannepacker - USA
Felting Aug.30 Ali Rabjohns - UK
Tapestry - Sept.1 - Ewa Bartosz-Mazus - POLAND
Textile Resin - Sept.9 - Jocelyne Ladouceur - QUÉBEC
Knitting - Sept.14 & 16 - Jocelyne Ladouceur - QUÉBEC
Hand Quilting - Sept.18 - Liane Thiry-Smith - CANADA
Printing on Textiles - Sept.18 - Andie Haltrich - QUÉBEC
Silk-Screen - Sept.19 - Frances Graff - QUÉBEC
Laine Transformations of Wool - Sept.25 - Claire Guerette - QUÉBEC
Felt Hat-making - Sept.25-26 - Hannah Ranger - QUÉBEC
Doll making - Oct.2 - Liane Thiry-Smith - CANADA
Needle Felting - Oct.3 - Hannah Ranger - QUÉBEC
Tapestry - Oct.10 - Ixchel Suarez - CANADA

For
SCHEDULE / INFORMATION / ONLINE REGISTRATION

http://www.moonrain.ca/

Update on The Living Tapestry Workbook

Wow, we would like to thank all for their interest in The Living Tapestry Workbook. The reaction to the book has been great and we will soon have to go ahead with a second printing . We have sold copies in Australia, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, The United States and Canada. The book has been praised by both teachers and students.


For more information

www.moonrain.ca/TapestryWorkBook.hmtl

Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre

NEWS RELEASE

Ottawa

For immediate release:
March 12, 2010

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Unique weaving project wins public art competition

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Ottawa — The main lobby of the Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre will soon be home to a collaborative art project that promises to have the entire community weaving. Vision Weave, by local artists Thoma Ewen and Gabriel Ewen Phillips, was the winning entry in a City competition that called for public art to enhance Ottawa’s newest recreation centre and foster community engagement.

The mother-and-daughter team are thrilled their project was selected. “We wanted to create a visual expression of inter-cultural and inter-generational creative collaboration,” said Thoma Ewen. “My daughter and I will set up a portable loom in the recreation centre to teach, animate, communicate and direct the weaving of the Vision Weave project with community members of all ages.”

Councillor Diane Deans, chair of the Community and Protective Services Committee, said that the winning art was a perfect project for the new recreation centre. “What better way to weave a community together than with a tapestry that everyone can take part in? It’s one more way that public art can inspire and connect people of all ages, cultures and interests.”

An evolving piece, Vision Weave will incorporate the woven stories from the community. The result will be radiantly colourful banner-like woven hangings.

Thoma Ewen is artistic director of the Moon Rain Centre for Tapestry Arts; Gabriel Ewen Phillips is project co-ordinator. An award-winning tapestry artist, and former instructor at the Ottawa School of Art, Thoma directs community projects in Canada and Europe. An assistant at the Moon Rain Centre for over 12 years, Gabriel has studied at Richard Robinson Fashion Design Academy, Arts Canterbury and Ottawa School of Art.

For more information about the new public art visit ottawa.ca/arts or call 3-1-1.

For more information:
Media contact
613-580-2450

Public inquiries
3-1-1

Vision Circle

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Moon Rain was invited to direct the The Vision Circle community weaving project done at the Ayer's Cliff Elementary School in the Eastern Townships in Quebec.




Louise Boyce on the right, the head teacher and assisant principal of the school, organized the project.

Images from Moon Rain

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Happy New Year to all

People have been requesting some images taken around Moon Rain Centre, so here are a few taken during warmer times.

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Images by K Ewen

The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available

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The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available for order. Contact info@moonrain.ca or telephone 819 457 9711. Please check the Moon Rain website at www.moonrain.ca/TapestryWorkBook.html (PayPal available)

The Living Tapestry Workbook is an introductory guide to designing and weaving tapestry.
The step-by-step instructions simplify tapestry weaving, making it accessible and easy to do. The Workbook covers all the basics needed to get started and serves as a companion to further explorations in tapestry weaving.

The Living Tapestry Workbook introduces the philosophy of Canadian tapestry artist Thoma Ewen, and shares her technical insights and knowledge developed over 35 years of weaving and teaching tapestry. Ewen communicates the ancient indigenous understanding that weaving is a sacred path. She illustrates how tapestry’s vital contemporary role is to transmit beauty, harmony and Peace.

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"When Thirteen Moons Entwine"
a textile arts event in the Outaouais
late summer/early fall 2010

integrating textile arts with the natural environment
and the mythology of the thirteen moons

"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" is a professional textile arts event, inspired by the legends of the thirteen moons of the natural lunar calendar. It is an outdoor laboratory that brings together established professional textile artists with young emerging artists in the creation of textile arts installations along a scenic walking path. This festive event includes exhibitions, workshops and artist's talks at Moon Rain Centre in the Gatineau Hills in the Outaouais region of West Quebec, and collaborates with major exhibition centres in the region to present textile arts exhibitions during the late summer and early fall of 2010.

"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" presents four related textile arts aspects:

installations, workshops, exhibitions and artist's talks

For more information please visit

www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineEnglish.html

or

www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineFrench.html

Call to artists

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Moon Rain Centre announces
A Call to emerging and established textile/fibre artists for:
“When thirteen moons entwine”
an international textile arts event autumn 2010
integrating textiles, the environment and the mythologies of the

lunar calendar.

Artists are invited to propose outdoor textile/fibre art installations,

workshops and artist talks.
Deadline for submissions is January 15th 2010.

Information:
Moon Rain Centre
http://www.moonrain.ca/
info@moonrain.ca
819-457-9711

Article in the Low Down Newspaper

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This article appear in the Low Down newspaper on November 4 2009. The author is Phil Jenkins.
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Fibre Quarterly Article

An article on the Big Weave Project, Moon Rain and fibre was published in the Fall 2009 edition of Fibre Quarterly. The following is the link to the article.

www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1

The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.

Be sure to check out this publication.

Fibre Quarterly Article

An article on the Big Weave Project, Moon Rain and fibre was published in the Fall 2009 edition of Fibre Quarterly. The following is the link to the article.

www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1

The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.

Be sure to check out this publication.

Aurora Borealis Behind The Trees

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Misty morning at Moon Rain

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The mist rolls across the fields at Moon Rain

Photography

Ken Ewen