Toronto Craft Alert: CRAFTY CHAT/EXHIBITION: Guided Tour - Design for the Other 90% (November 26)

links to crafty local bloggers

links to toronto area makers

getting down to bizniz

distill
left feet
snazzy girl
freedom clothing collective
propaganda
fresh collective
red pegasus
made you look
bounty
MADE
nathalie-roze & co.
model citizen/georgie bowlesworth
fleurtje
winkel
kid icarus
heart on your sleeve
the rage
nanopod:hybrid studio
TANK fire + metal
good catch general store
boga moda
outer layer
function 13
norma w
shopgirls
green is black
dish gallery + studio
The Guild Shop
honeybunch (online)
mob - modern objects of beauty (online)

lettuce knit
knit-o-matic
the japanese paper place
aboveground art supplies
woolfitts
curry's
the sassy bead co.
sources for beads in ontario
pleasure craft fibre studio
fable handknit
tonic living(retro-inspired fabric)
the paper place
toronto fashion incubator supplier directory
gta area quilt shops
urban scrapyard (paper craft supplies)
the purple purl (yarn)
the naked sheep (yarn)
in the loop cafe (yarn)
the workroom (fabric & craft supplies)
artistic textiles (custom printing of fabrics)
mosaic beach (mosaic supplies)
sew-sisters (quilting fabric, patterns, books and notions)
La Perlerie (beads)
Telio(fabric)
Open Studio's etching & relief supply resources

the sewing studio (sewing classes and feature workshops)
sew be it studio (sewing, knitting, fashion design, beading, etc.)
peach berserk (screenprinting)
open studio (printmaking)
lettuce knit (knitting)
c1 artspace (ceramics, collage, mosaic, artbusiness, kid workshops, etc.)
japanese paper place (papercuts, bookbinding, paper dyeing, etc.)
canadian bookbinders and book artists guild (all things book)
harbourfront stamping (stamping and card making)
the devil's workshop (jewellery making & silversmith classes)
gardiner museum (clay classes)
nanopod studio (jewellery)
nathalie-roze & co. (various e.g. soap making, sewing, felting, knitting)
gabriela delworth creative classes & workshops (paper arts & mixed media)
crafty couture (fashion and design workshops)
margie jewellery studio (glasswork, beading & metalsmithing)
nanopod:hybrid studio (goldsmithing, silversmithing, glass fusing & flameworking)
george brown continuing ed: fashion & jewellery (see site for extensive list of classes)
TANK fire + metal (glass, silver and jewelry assembly workshops)
urban scrapyard (paper craft workshops)
the workroom (sewing & quilting workshops and classes)
mosaic beach (mosaic classes)
toronto school of art (various)
contemporary textile studio (printing and felting classes)
sew-sisters (quilting, knitting, sewing)
beading buds (beading parties)

textile museum of canada
harbourfront centre craft exhibits
c1 artspace
*new* gallery
japan foundation
design exchange
canadian design resource
ontario crafts council

toronto church of craft
the knit cafe
knit-o-matic stitch'n'bitch and fibre philanthropy
ontario quilting connections
downtown knit collective

WORN fashion journal

new mind space
spacing magazine
toronto public space committee
mammalian diving reflex
you grow girl
dear toronto,

Monday, November 24, 2008

CRAFTY CHAT/EXHIBITION: Guided Tour - Design for the Other 90% (November 26)

Guided Tour: Design for the Other 90%

Thursday, November 27, 6:30 p.m.

OCAD Professional Gallery

Level 2, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

www.ocad.ca/mini/progallery/

416-977-6000 x365

The OCAD Professional Gallery presents a free 20-30 minute discussion with art historian and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ananda Shankar Chakrabarty, of the works on view in the Smithsonian's touring exhibition Design for the Other 90%.