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

 

 

Article from Vie Des Arts Magazine

 

Thank you to Vie Des Arts magazine for permission to post their article on our blog.

 

Merci a Vie Des Arts pour la permission d’afficher leur article sur notre blog .

 

 

La trame à suivre

In the magazine Vie des Arts No. 231 there is a wonderful article by Marine Van Hoof on La triennale des arts textiles 2013. This issue is out now and please look for the article called La trame à suivre.

http://viedesarts.com/article346-La-trame-a-suivre

Pictures from 14th Triennale Exhibition the Central Museum of Textiles

 

Thoma is standing outside the entrance to Waivel Castle in Cracow on May 5th. Thoma and Krystyna visited Waivel Castel and saw tapestries in the Story of Noah series, part of the famous 16th century tapestry collection belonging to King Sigismund Auguste of Poland.

After the vernissage, Thoma and Helga Berry quietly look at the works in the 14th Triennale Exhibition the Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, May 6, 2013.

 

A beautiful tapestry by Polish tapestry artist Wlodzimierz Cygan

 

 

 

At the May 6th vernissage at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, on the left is Professor Ewa Latkowska-Zychska, of the Textile and Fashion Faculty of the Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz,  a member of the jury of the 14th Lodz Triennial, in the centre is Thoma Ewen,  Artistic Director of Moon Rain Centre, and on the right is Carol Russell, the author of the well-loved books, “The Tapestry Handbook”, and more recently, “The Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation”.  Carol is writing an article on the Triennale in Lodz for Fibre Arts Now Magazine,  and also researching her newest book on contemporary fibre art. Thoma’s tapestry “Offering at Spider Rock” is included in Carol’s “The Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation”.

 

Photos by Krystyna Sadej

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

Pages updated

Please check out the Installations and Exhibition pages and shortly there will be information about the upcoming workshops. The distribution of the fridge magnets for La Triennale has been ongoing and we have received some wonderful responses.

The event opening is drawing closer

Images from Woven Bridges

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photos Ewa Bartosz Mazus

 

“Woven Bridges”

“Woven Bridges”  at  Muzeum Tkactwa, Kamienna Gora, Poland  from April 2 to May 9, 2013.

     Today tapestry can represent a remarkable beauty and a kind of textured poetry, and it can also represent three-dimensional rebellion against conventional outlooks. Woven Bridges showcases a variety of woven textile art, sharing and communicating the woven tapestry medium as contemporary fibre art”.



The Woven Bridges exhibit at Muzeum Tkactwa, the Museum of Weaving in Kamienna Gora, Poland, from April 2 to May 9, 2013 features a fibre art group with three Canadian Artists: Thoma Ewen, Krystyna Sadej, Ixchel Suarez and five invited guest-artists: Ewa Bartosz Mazus from Poland, Monique Lehman from United States, Thomas Cronenberg from Germany, Zofia Werblicka from Poland and Nicu Zeleznicov from Romania.

 Woven Bridges demonstrates the very strong connection between Canadian, American and European artists who share the same interest and love of tapestry weaving.  This exhibition comprehensively demonstrates the dynamic field of contemporary woven textile art, in which a rich variety of materials, diverse techniques and experimental forms can produce works of striking diversity and originality, combining humour and seriousness, recycling, and reflections on the nature of everyday life.

 

 

 

 

http://woven-bridges.blogspot.ca/

La Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles en Outaouais

La Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles en Outaouais is presenting a spectrum of textile arts exhibitions in collaboration with exhibition centres throughout the Outaouais region.

 

 

 

 

• The New art of the Loom - Galerie Montcalm
August 29 to October 6, 2013

• Passe moi toi; empreinte et movement  Françoise Carré- Art-image et espace Odyssée
August 23 to October 6, 2013

• Brennan & Maffei Tapestries - Shenkman Arts Centre

August 23 to September 22, 2013

• Naked COPTIC Dancers - Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

August 13 to October 12, 2013

• A day in the life of Maggy M. - Centre d’action culturelle de la MRC de Papineau
  August 24 to October 6, 2013

• Felted Language - Trinity Art Gallery
August 22 to September 24, 2013

• Matrices - Moon Rain Centre
August 31 to October 6, 2013

• Homage to Micheline Beauchemin - Pierre-Debain
August 21 to October 13, 2013

• A Natural Phenomenon - Susan Taber Avila - Art image et espace Odyssée
August 23 to October 6, 2013

• Inner Vision - Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
August 13 to October 12, 2013

• Materia Linea - Stone School Gallery
September 13 to October 6, 2013

• Sackcloth and Silk - Art Brûlant & Impressions
September 13 to October 12, 2013

• Past and Present - Shenkman Arts Centre
August 25 to October 10, 2013

VIth WTA International Biennal of Contemporary Textile Art AIR

Thoma Ewen is invited to exhibit in a group tapestry exhibition with Ixchel Suarez, Krystyna Sadej, Peter Harris and Stella Tung in the Art Gallery of the School of Design, Anahuac University, in Mexico City from May 23 to June 2, 2011. Four Mexican tapestry artists will also be exhibiting in this exhibition.Thoma and Ixchel will participate in the conference, "Textil Mexico-Canada" on May 25th at 10 am, in the School of Design.
Thoma and Ixchel will then travel to Oaxaca, Mexico to speak at the International Textile Encounter, a conference at Museo Textil d'Oaxaca on May 31 at 7pm.
These events are in collaboration with the VI WTA International Biennal of Contemporary Textile Art AIR. which takes place in three cities in Mexico: Mexico City, Veracruz and Oaxaca.

http://www.wta-online.org/

The tapestry below will be exhibited at Anahuac University

Ribbons of Light

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pototgraph Jamie Cruickshank

Culture Days/Journees de la Culture

When Thirteen Moons Entwine

International textile arts event in the Outaouais

Aug 15 to Oct 10, 2010

Moon Rain Centre, Val-des-Monts, Quebec.

September 25, 26, 2010

Textile Arts Discovery Bus Tour

Circuit Decouvert Arts Textiles

On Saturday, September 25^th, Galerie Montcalm and the Ville de Gatineau organized a bus tour that visited the textile arts exhibitions organized by Moon Rain Centre in collaboration with the international textile arts event in the Outaouais, “When Thirteen Moons Entwine”.

The bus started in the morning at Galerie Montcalm in Gatineau after visiting the 9^th International Triennale of Mini-textiles from Angers, France. It then visited Espace Pierre Debain in Aylmer to see the exhibition Fibres Boreales, then drove to Moon Rain Centre to see the outdoor textile arts installations in situ and the studio exhibition, The Thirteen Moons. A gourmet picnic lunch was prepared by chef Chris Hudson, that bus tour participants and artists enjoyed at the waterfall along the scenic walking path at Moon Rain Centre.

On the drive home to Gatineau, the bus stopped to visit the international tapestry exhibit, Fils Lumineux at the Val-Des-Monts municipal hall.

It was a very enjoyable day for the bus tour participants. The word most frequently spoken was “inspirational”.

Photos by Ken Ewen

Tissage-Metissage

Community Weaving Project

The Agora, Maison du Citoyen, Gatineau, Quebec

On Sunday, September 26^th was Tissage-Metissage, a community weaving project organized by Galerie Montcalm and the Ville de Gatineau and directed by Thoma and Gabby Ewen of Moon Rain Centre.

Moon Rain Centre's “Collective Cloth” project provided the core of this fabric project that had an amazing resulting immense fabric art work. Over 200 community members participated in the weaving of “Tissage-Metissage”, and a permanent public location is being sought to display the weaving.

Photos by Dominique Laurent

When Thirteen Moons Entwine

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When Thirteen Moons Entwine

International textile arts event in the Outaouais

Aug 15 to Oct 10, 2010

Moon Rain Centre, Val-des-Monts, Quebec.

The integration of textile arts into the natural environment and the mythology of the thirteen moons

When Thirteen Moons Entwine

was an international textile event, inspired by the thirteen moons of the lunar calendar. It was an outdoor laboratory that brought together established professional textile artists with emerging artists in the creation of outdoor textile art installations at thirteen sites along a scenic walking path in nature at Moon Rain Centre, in the Gatineau Hills.

The number thirteen has very ancient and mystical significance, representing the unification of life, creation and the cosmos. In many cultures, the Wise Woman is referred to as a "Woman of the Thirteenth Moon".

When thirteen Moons Entwine included a spectrum of textile arts exhibitions presented in collaboration with major exhibition centres in the region, and offered hands on workshops by internationally known textile artists.

Quand les treize lunes s'entrelacent

When Thirteen Moons Entwine

Three minute video

Video courtesy of Aisha Productions, Gatineau, Quebec

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Outdoor Textile Art INSTALLATIONS

International textile arts event in the Outaouais

Aug 15 to Oct 10, 2010

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When Thirteen Moons Entwine was an international textile event, inspired by the thirteen moons of the lunar calendar. It was an outdoor laboratory that brought together established professional textile artists with emerging artists in the creation of 13 outdoor textile art installations at thirteen sites along a scenic walking path in nature at Moon Rain Centre, in the Gatineau Hills.

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Map of Sites

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Image by Gary Stuber, Artzu