Artwork: Doves Wear White, Jana Ghalayini
Train-to-Present: A Way of Weaving
A Masterclass & RWM Exhibition Opportunity
An introductory and experimental course in tapestry weaving. Participants will learn how to set up their own tapestry loom and study the basic foundational techniques while expanding on what weaving can look like in fibre arts. In addition to core weaving methods, concept development will be introduced for a woven artwork to be created throughout the program’s duration.
While discussing themes of weaving and its historical and contemporary contexts, we will collectively decide on a theme and work towards it.
Participants are expected to complete one piece of woven artwork by the end of this course. The artwork will be displayed at the Rendezvous With Madness 2024 Visual Arts Exhibition during early November.
About The Instructor
Jana Ghalayini (b.1993) is a process-based interdisciplinary visual artist. Ghalayini holds a BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University and is a self-taught weaver who drew inspiration from her Palestinian heritage.
With a focus on intuitive weaving and abstract mixed-media painting and printmaking, Ghalayini is interested in repetition and mark making as ritual practices. She is consistently investigating the duality between materials and fragmentation while working and building up layers in her practice to document gestures of personal memory, experience and ideas that can evolve as time goes on.
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We invite you to participate in a drawing workshop led by artist Logan MacDonald and facilitated by guest-curator Sarah-Tai Black. This workshop is an exercise in quiet tracing and features drawing activities focused on silence and audio-free learning, playing and collaboration.
Pre-registration is not required but recommended.
Masking with a KN95, N95, or better mask is required in this space. Masks and hand sanitizer are available onsite for visitors and there is an air purifier rated for the room size in use. This is a scent-free environment — we kindly ask that you please refrain from using scented products before visiting.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
4 – 5:30 PM
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, #302
Toronto, ON
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Illustration: Jenny Chen
IN THE EXHIBITION:
In Praise of Voice Notes and Penguin Pebbling (part of Mourning Microcosmmutes)
m. patchwork monoceros
ARTIST TALK
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Indebted to the words and thinking of disability justice educator Mia Mingus, wherever you are is where i want to be offers access intimacy as the un-structuring logic for our collective queer and trans crip futures. Refusing the loudly eugenicist mapping of isolation and disposability upon our disabled queer-trans-crip bodyminds, the multi-disciplinary practices platformed here speak with a loved urgency to the ways in which embodied experiences of access intimacy have the capacity to reconfigure time, space, and relation. Spanning installation to textile to video, the work of these artists proposes the act, experience, and feeling of crip kinship as a means and model of radical future-making.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Sarah–Tai Black (they/them) is an arts curator and critic born and (mostly) raised in Treaty 13 Territory/Toronto whose work aims to center Black, queer, trans, and crip futurities and freedom work. Their curatorial work has been staged at Cambridge Art Galleries (Cambridge, ON), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, SK), MOCA (Toronto ON), PAVED Arts (Saskatoon, SK), and A Space Gallery (Toronto, ON).