Join me at the Manitoba Craft Council on Friday June 7th from 5pm to 8pm for a guided tour of the exhibition and a net making netted lace demonstration. Guided tours are scheduled for 5:30 and 7:30pm.
Organized by artist Kristin Nelson, of the current exhibition "Visible Labour" at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, and led by Aidan Smith, this net making workshop was presented via Zoom on April 17, 2021. The workshop came out of a desire to collectively make, and of a continued curiosity around nets as an object rich in meaning and use value.
Kristin will be onsite at the gallery from 1 – 5 pm, Wednesday,
November 3 to Saturday, November 6, 2021. Visitors are invited to
drop in on Kristin in CVAG’s lower level project room studio (check
in at the gallery reception hub first) while she is working on her
new project nets. A self-serve community make art kiosk in the CVAG
studio will give people (all ages, children accompanied by an
adult) an opportunity to learn about making nets (supplies
provided), alongside Aidan Smith’s “Net Making: An Online
Workshop”.
Taught by Aidan Smith of Nova Scotia; in this online workshop,
participants will be shown how to load a netting needle, start a
net, and increase/decrease the net in size. With these basic
skills, nets of varying sizes and shapes can be created.
Curated by Angela Somerset and Denise Lawson. Visible Labour is a
four person exhibition with Kristin Nelson, Deborah Dumka, Connie
Michelle Morey and Claire Sanford and is on exhibit at the Comox
Valley Art Gallery, in Courtenay, BC from March 25 to May 29, 2021.
An online Net Making workshop is on Saturday April 17, and taught
by Aidan Smith, from Halifax, NS.
Join us in a listening event, at Garry Street Coffee, of full
length vinyl album featuring 10 compositions from Sidney Sydney
interpreting sounds of curtains at the Joan Sutherland Theatre,
Sydney Opera House. Artists include crys Cole (DE), Christine
Fellows (CA), hannah_g (CA), Casey Mecija (CA), Gail Priest (AU),
Judith Rice (CA), Andrea Roberts (CA), Kelly Ruth (CA), Süss (CA)
and Roger White (CA).
Filmaker and Visual Artist Paige Gratland is completing a
Branscombe House Artist in Residency this year
(https://www.richmond-news.com/arts/richmond-welcomes-queer-feminist-artist-and-labourer-as-2019-branscombe-house-artist-in-residence-1.23600431)
and invited me to do an artist talk to kick off a public and
collaborative weaving project.
Neutral Ground. The exhibition 'drink' is an overt commentary on
our precious natural resources and the effects of our consumer
culture on them. The artist invites you to have a drink during her
exhibition in cups woven on a floor loom. This duo exhibition also
featured Contact by Barbara Meneley.
Booth C10 Lisa Kehler Art + Projects at TIAF at the Toronto
International Art Fair October 26 to 29, 2018 featuring works by
Kristin Nelson, Anna Breininger, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Erica Eyres,
Manuela Gonzalez and Lauren Seiden.
Join me for a drink at A Handmade Assembly in Sackville, New
Brunswick, in a weekend of performance, workshops, lectures and
artist talks brought to you by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts
Centre. Keynote speaker Sarah Quinton.
Doors at 7:00pm, at the Sidney Community Centre in Sidney,
Manitoba, for a listening event featuring sounds of the Sydney
Opera House curtains as interpreted in 10 new audio compositions
by: Andrea Roberts, Casey Mesija, Christine Fellows, crys cole,
Gail Priest, hannah_g, Judith Rice, Kelly Ruth, Roger White and
Süss, With 'curtain' piano by Dallas Nedotiafko. This project was
made possible by Video Pool Media Arts and the New Artist in Media
Art fund and the Manitoba Arts Council. Artists are not necessarily
in attendance. This venue is wheelchair accessible.
drink is an overt commentary on our precious natural resources and
the effects of our consumer culture on them. These cups were woven
by some of Riding Mountain National Park’s most stunning lakes.
Kristin Nelson invites you to have a drink at the water cooler
during Edition Toronto and help her in the continuation of a new
art installation drink.
Sidney Sydney supported by year long mentorship program through
Video Pool through their New Artist and New Media Fund.
A Manitoba Arts Council. The Riding Mountain Artists’ Residency
provides professional artists with an opportunity to be inspired
and create their works in the park’s setting. In return these
professional artists invite visitors to interact with them and
uniquely discover the park through their eyes and works.
Curated by Lisa Kehler, Lisa Kehler Art & Projects. A collection of
work by Ian August, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Erica Eyres, Sylvia
Matas, Kristin Nelson, and Cyrus Smith, featuring Winnipeg as the
source of inspiration.
Contributor: Kristin Nelson Chapter 4: Insiders, Outsiders and the
Potential of Progressive Studios. Edited by Christine Kelly and
Michael Orsini. UBC Press, Published October, 2016.
With Suzie Smith, Box Gallery. A free risograph map Interesting
Places, Orioles Bike Cage.
Artwork featured at Feature Contemporary Art Fair by Lisa Kehler
Art + Projects.
Located at the Carlu in Toronto, silent auction and gala to invest
in the Canadian Art Foundation.
Co-Edited by J.J. Kegan McFadden, this first queer issue explores
"the factors that shape queer art and literature today." (CV2)The
Poetics of Queer, Summer 2015. Vol 38. No. 1, publication, cover
art.
Lisa Kehler Art + Projects at Papier15 Montreal.
A Canada Council International Residency at Artspace, Sydney
Australia.
Commissaire Eve De Garie-Lamanque.Dans l’exposition La Chose en
soi*, dix artistes sont réunis et repensent la nature et la
dynamique des relations entre l’objet et l’individu. Michel de
Broin (Québec), CFCF (Michael Silver – Québec), Cozic (Québec),
Jacinthe Lessard-L (Québec), Micah Lexier (Ontario), Axel Lieber
(Allemagne et Suède), Kristin Nelson (Manitoba), James Nizam
(Colombie-Britannique), Roula Partheniou (Ontario) et Michael A.
Robinson (Québec).
Winnipeg's only 24-hour gallery run by Kegan McFadden and Divya
Mehra, Window, featured Dear Cheryl, a glow in the dark, sequined
elevator blanket.
Curated by Jenifer Papararo, Plug In ICA. Nadia Belerique, Valérie
Blass, Ursula Johnson, Kelly Lycan, Ursula Mayer, Kristin Nelson,
Dominique Rey and Andrea Roberts are connected in Superimposition:
Sculpture and Image as artists who contend with the spatial terms
of sculpture while also contemplating the flat surface of images.
Group exhibition, IDEA/EXCHANGE, Cambridge, ON. Juried by Sarah
Quinton, Artist/Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada
(Toronto, ON) and Jaime Angelopoulos, Artist (Toronto, ON). a
biennial juried exhibition of contemporary Canadian fibre art. It
is a showcase of the most current and versatile approaches to fibre
as a medium.
Curated by Lisa Kehler, Actual Gallery. Make Work is show in
conjunction with Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier's exhibit,
Blanket Statements.
Raw Gallery. The exhibition Make - Soft was a response to the
physical space of RAW gallery in an attempt to make it softer.
Curated by Lisa Kehler, Actual Gallery. This inaugural exhibition
serves as an exciting introduction to Actual's roster of artists,
featuring new work by Ted Barker, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Paul
Butler, Michael Dumontier, Derek Dunlop, William Eakin, Erica
Eyres, Neil Farber, Jeanette Johns, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline,
Wanda Koop, Sylvia Matas, Shaun Morin, Kristin Nelson, Paul Robles,
Mélanie Rocan, Suzie Smith and Robert Taite.
La maison des artistes visuels francophone. L’exposition « Roche,
Papier, Ciseaux » rassemble des œuvres de trois artistes de chez
nous : Kristin Nelson, David Perrett et Gaëtanne Sylvester. Quoique
leur média et leurs recherches diffèrent l’un de l’autre, ces trois
artistes s’inspirent et utilisent de technique et média souvent dit
« artisanal » pour créer leurs œuvres.
Commissaire Ève Dorais, Skol. Skol invited Montreal curator Ève
Dorais to bring together a selection of emerging artists in
response to the theme of The Artist in Dangerous Times. This
multidisciplinary exhibition features work by Louis Boutin,
Isabelle Guimond, Whitney Lafleur, Isabelle Mathieu, Kristin
Nelson, Aurélien Monsarrat and Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa.
Parisian Laundry. Collision brings together a selection of graduating students from Montreal Master of Fine Arts Programs, curated by Parisian Laundry's director Jeanie Riddle.
Parlour. Three hand-woven cotton replicas of paper are on display, developed in multiples and numbered in series. Each series, given a different value, by the artist, stands in relationship to its individual purpose of production.
Concordia University. Devon Knowles and Luanne Martineau are workshop leaders in "The Deskilling and Reskilling of Artistic Production Research Workshop". This workshop "will focus specifically on how contemporary artists are revisiting the skill of making as a place from which to critique or react to the post-digital age of software-specific art and design, consumerism, condensed time, and globalism." Please click on the link for more information.
Curated by Travis McEwen and Beth Frey , Tumbler. Within/Without explores ideas of alternate communities. "By creating Within/Without, we are participating in the circulation of cultural texts that aid in the formation and articulation of queer feminist communities and discourse." Featured in this exhibit are Sharlene Bamboat, Melisa Brittain and Lucas Crawford, Dana Dal Bo, Dayna Danger, Ali El-Darsa, Ted Kerr, Melissa Levin, Sarah Mangle, Kristin Nelson and Anahita Norouzi.