Darcy Hunter Christmas Markets

 

Darcy Hunter was one of the 18 juried artists at the first Craft NB Christmas Festival, which took place at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton on November 4th and 5th, 2023. 

 This year she also attended the Etsy Holly Jolly Holiday Market at the UNB Currie Centre on November 25^th and 26^th.

Darcy had a wide range of products such as artworks from her Slow Stitch Series and Overflow series. She also included ornaments, art prints, journals and textile art pendants. 

Flower Art on Wood

Ornaments

Pendants

Stormy Seas (2022)

Kristi Farrier - North American Hand Papermakers conference

 

Downtown Providence, RI.

Kristi Farrier was excited to be in Rhode Island, USA, at the North American Hand Papermakers (@nahandpapermakers) conference in October 2023. She was talking about growing fibre flax and demonstrating how to hand process it to access the fibre for papermaking

Hera are a few shots from her demonstration on Slow Craft and Sustainability: Growing and Hand Processing Fibre Flax for Hand Papermaking.. 

   

It was a gift to have this opportunity to share about her motivations and explorations for working with flax in this way. Being with this epic group of papermakers and paper artists in the setting and spaces of the Rhode Island School of Design was incredible and a wee bit surreal. Amazing conversations were had and connections made.

    

Lee McLean Solo Exhibit

 “Do not go gentle”

Lee McLean’s solo textile art exhibit germinated in a hospital waiting room. As she watched the minutes tick by, it struck her how much of her life was being spent on managing her health, of all the associated wasted moments, and of how control is chipped away as we age. She felt compelled to share these feelings using her skills working with fabric and thread.

Her series, inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem “Do not go gentle into that good night”, is shown at St. Thomas University Yellow Box Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick until Dec. 23, 2023.

In Tending the World, she used a traditional quilt block to suggest a person with back bent, reaching out.

Tending the World

Disposable

Isolation

Still here