Crafted Vancouver

Our friends over at Capture celebrate the opening of their month-long festival today. We're looking forward to this year's events! 🥳

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WELCOME MESSAGE FROM EMMY LEE WALL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR⁠
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Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it.” – Holland Cotter.⁠
So begins Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Holland Cotter’s review of Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life at the International Center of Photography for the New York Times in 2012. A decade later, this statement is no less true. It is this ability to connect, unite and bring recognition – this transcendence – that makes the medium so potent. Welcome to Capture 2022!⁠
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We hope the exhibitions, public art installations, special projects, talks and events, and our catalogue will incite dialogue and offer engaging, and even challenging experiences. As a diverse array of local, national and international artists converge during the Festival, we are presented with a moment to consider the shape-shifting nature of the medium and its powerful ability to represent—as well as the responsibility that comes with that.⁠
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To read Emmy Lee Wall’s full welcome message visit our link in bio!⁠
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Image: | Sara Cwynar, Umi, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and | Cooper Cole, Toronto. Photo: | Jocelyne Junker, Capture Photography Festival.⁠

Call for designers: celebrate design at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre //
Deadline for applications: April 12, 2022
https://buff.ly/3wMlFCS

During the upcoming Japanese Design Today 100 exhibition in May-June 2022 at the NNMCC, a special Nikkei Designers Market will be hosted on Sunday, June 12, from 10am-4pm at 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC.

The NNMCC is calling all types of designers to showcase and sell items: furniture, tableware, clothing, accessories, stationary, children’s products, hobby items, and more. Participation is open to new and established designers (you don’t have to be Nikkei (Japanese descent), and your designs do not have to relate to Japan).

About the event:
Around a dozen vendors will set up pop up shops in the lobby, adjacent to the Japanese Design Today 100 exhibition. You can expect visitors from the exhibition as well as shoppers from the Nikkei Garden Farmers Market (10am-2pm) to visit your booth. The exhibition and events are all free access to the public and will be widely publicized. It is difficult to predict numbers during a pandemic but we think we can estimate around 2000 visitors under current public health orders.

Application deadline: April 12
Notification of acceptance: May 12 at the latest.
Participation fee: $50+tax
https://buff.ly/3wMlFCS

Looking forward to your application!
Please contact Nichola Ogiwara, Museum Programmer with any questions.　お問い合わせは荻原にこら宛にお願いします。
[email protected] | 604.777.7000 ext.109

Call for Designers: Nikkei Designers Market - June 12 Apply by April 12. Open to all designers.

Exhibition: Still The Ocean Sounds The Same - Bridget Catchpole //

Bridget Catchpole presents her solo exhibition 'Still The Ocean Sounds The Same', opening tomorrow at Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h, bijoux et objets contemporains .

View her colourful jewellery and assemblages made with plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean - giving a spin to the original purpose of these materials. Through her work, Bridget reminds us of our responsibility towards our environment.

https://buff.ly/3tBxBp4

A melancholy of the playfulness - Bridget Catchpole Visit the artist's page to discover her work : Bridget Catchpole Many new pieces will be add on her page very soon.  

Featured Event Partner: Patrick Christie //

Patrick Christie has been heavily invested in wood design and craftsmanship, with a specific focus on British Columbian species. His education in Industrial Design at Emily Carr under Professor Christian Blyt highlighted the unique potential of our local woods, and the contribution they can make towards sustainability. Patrick, who formerly worked out of the Yew Woodshop, has produced numerous works across the city, including a reception desk at 312 Main made primarily from recovered materials destined for the landfill. He now runs SPACE (https://buff.ly/3IfZszh), an art & design-based coworking environment which fosters new collisions of creativity.

Out of Many by Tafui //

Tafui's latest project is a series of six large vinyl banners inspired by the similarities of Indigenous cultures around the globe and the idea that "we belong to each other".

Tafui’s practice is informed by the idea that through the understanding of our histories and shared experiences, we become united as people, as cultures, and to the earth.

You can view the series at the Vancouver Public Library on 350 West Georgia St in Vancouver until November 2022!

Learn more: https://buff.ly/366bwW9

Tafui is an independent Artist and Designer originally from Xaymaca / Kingston, Jamaica. Her work spans various media, which includes fine art and product design. She is known for bold black and white abstract, repeating patterns that embellish her work.
Learn more about Tafui: shoptafui.com

Exhibition: Unearthed //

Our cultural partners, Craft Council of BC and the Vancouver Metal Arts Association, present a group exhibition featuring 23 artists whose works explore contemporary jewellery and metal arts.

Artists include: Arielle Brackett, Barbara Cohen, Kristyn Cooper, Kaitlyn Derrah, Stefanie Dueck, Jade Dumrath, Claudine Gevry, Sarah Groves, Yoshie Hattori, ZULA Jewelry, Melody Juthamongkol, Juliet Kemble, Clarissa Long, Tyson Minard, Suzanne Nairne, Sherri Pelican, Susan Remnant, Abbi Tucker, Annie Tung, Monika Urbaniak, Jasmine Williams and Carrie Yodanis.

Unearthed is on view at the CCBC Gallery starting today, March 3rd and until April 8th, 2022.
Opening reception: March 3, 2022 at 6pm at the CCBC Gallery on Granville Island.
Learn more and register for the opening: https://buff.ly/3C8Z18t

unearthed - Craft Council of British Columbia The Vancouver Metal Arts Association presents ‘Unearthed’. This group exhibition features 23 artists whose works explore contemporary jewellery and metal arts | march 3 - april 28, 2022

Featured Event Partner Ai & Om Knives 愛&思いやり //

Founded by Douglas Chang, in partnership with Tosho Knife Arts, Ai & Om aim to provide quality edged instruments to professionals and amateurs alike. Douglas has had years of experience supplying the cooks in the top kitchens of Vancouver with knives and stones and sharing his knowledge of how to sharpen and care for them.

Back during the second edition of Crafted Vancouver, we had the opportunity to join a talk and demonstration by experts at Ai & Om about the care for the most essential of cooking tools, the knife - broadening their scope to share their knowledge and experience with non-professionals.

Located in the heart of Vancouver, B.C.’s Historic Chinatown, Ai & Om believe everything should be approached with passion, knowledge, and care.
https://buff.ly/35l6qp3

Featured Event Partner Becki Chan //

Becki Chan creates sculptural jewellery with an architectural aesthetic. With an educational background in sculpture and architecture, Becki finds beauty and inspiration in structure and geometry.

Her work, defined by its graphic linear aesthetic and bold style, focuses on innovating with form to create jewellery silhouettes that frame the body in unique ways. Its clean and minimalist perspective manifests through elementary lines and simplified shapes combine and repeat, with slight variations and irregularities.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3sfHJ66

Featured Event Partner: Bridget Catchpole //

From empty beauty product packaging to plastic remnants collected along the Pacific Northwest Coast, Bridget Catchpole incorporates castoff materials affording them equal value to traditional gemstones. For more than 10 years, her focus looks at patterns of plastic waste from throwaway culture and how it has become a pervasive presence in the natural environment.

Now living and working in the Sunshine Coast of BC, Bridget continues to stun with her work: her piece “Dear, what have you done with Nana's pearls?” is now part of the permanent collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and her work will be on view in a solo exhibition at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h in March!

Featured Event Partner: Lydia Buxton //

Exploring the poetics of memory, Lydia Buxton pairs alternative materials with traditional aspects of metalsmithing through contemporary art jewellery.

As both a designer and contemporary metalsmith, Lydia Buxton cultivates handcrafted wearable works informed by her love of texture and natural materials.

Get to know Lydia and her work: https://buff.ly/3o3WaI8

Mythology’s Fiercest Females: Monique Huynh at //

Cultural partner, Craft Council of BC, presents this exhibition by jewellery designer Monique Huynh, who aims to bridge the gap between storytelling and wearable art. This collection uses the power of history coupled with ancient mythology to highlight the feminine voice in popular mythology. The mythological figures considered in this exhibition represent different contemporary movements: body dysmorphia, female equality, sexuality, survivors of gender-based violence, climate change and environmental protection.
The exhibition is on view at the CCBC gallery on Granville Island until February 10, 2022.

Event Partner feature: Tracey Bush //

For many years Tracey Bush made scrapbooks, collections of ephemera that could not be thrown away. The use of scraps is a way of recycling both materials and images in a process of reconstruction.

These books have now emerged as a series of detailed and poetic works centred on nature and natural history; her botany and entomology series and artists’ books highlight the frailty and diversity of the species and their importance within our environment.

Last year, we had the pleasure of having Tracey join in conversation with Brent Comber at jaggedart Gallery. Watch the recording here:

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3A7U9PS

The Gallery Talks: jaggedart | Brent Comber & Tracey Bush Artists Tracey Bush and Brent Comber share a fascination for the natural world within two very different contexts: the Pacific Northwest for Brent Comber; the busy,…

Happy New Year!
We are grateful for the positive and learning experiences in 2021 and we hope 2022 brings all the joy, good health and wonderful moments for everyone!
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Event Partner feature: Eszter Burghardt //

Through her visual storytelling, Eszter Burghardt invites us to visit habitats and their inhabitants – completely made of wool and captured in photographs.

Eszter uses Icelandic wool, processing the raw fibre after shearing and prepares a felted textile that she can hand sew, felt, and steam into a final sculpture or pelt. She creates animal characters that are then photographed in temperate rainforests and arctic habitats.

With her various series, the artist tells stories with themes such as habitat loss, wildlife mismanagement, interactions, adaptation and invasive species, as well as stories with characters from folktales, legends, childhood and motherhood.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3Hp2CjV

Eszter Burghardt – Crafted Vancouver Eszter Burghardt is a Canadian-Hungarian artist based in Vancouver BC, Canada. After graduating with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2001 she spent three years at artist residencies in Iceland where her photo/sculptural work began. Her work was selected as a winner for the Magenta Foundation's F...

Event Partner feature: Ted Boey Wood //

With a particular interest in custom functional pieces, Ted Boey Wood creates fine furniture in the Krenov style – worked to finish by hand. Ted consciously considers the wood to be used in each project: he focuses on using local materials, adapts off-cuts, limiting waste, and pays special attention to grain graphics and simple clean lines present in the wood, allowing its natural beauty to be the focal point.

This year, Ted Boey Wood’s work (pictured here) was featured in the Crafted Interiors exhibition in May.

“It is exciting to plan a new project that is unique and has an intended purpose. More than anything, I love to take the time to relish working in the small details by hand.” -Ted

Merry Christmas from everyone at Crafted Vancouver!
We hope you have a joyful holiday season with your loved ones. 💙

Event Partner feature: Bricolage | Sinead Black //

Bricolage designs and makes linen products which lift the soul and stand the test of time, using traditional methods and materials in a modern way, creating heirlooms which remain true to the raw materials used and which may be handed down through generations.

Based in County Down, N Ireland, Bricolage was established in 2014 by Sinead Black, an interior design practitioner and lecturer at the Belfast School of Art. Her influences come from a strong design background, the power of Irish nature, the qualities of linen cloth and the heritage plant-dyeing processes.

Sinead’s beautiful hand-quilted work, which follows a slow process she feels honours the traditions of the linen cloth, has been featured around the world, including at a previous iteration of Crafted Interiors.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3Emvwj5
Find their shop:https://buff.ly/32m0PNv

Sinead Black of Bricolage – Crafted Vancouver Bricolage designs + makes linen products which lift the soul and stand the test of time – it uses traditional methods and materials in a modern way, creating heirlooms which remain true to the raw materials used and which may be handed down through generations. Bricolage is a small design studio b...

Event Partner feature: Propellor Studio //

Propellor is a Vancouver based art and design studio that thrives on the challenge of creating useful, beautiful and ecologically-minded objects.

These days, you can find Toby, Pam & Nik’s gorgeous work down at their Granville Island studio & showroom on Cartwright Street. Make sure to visit to view their new work, as well as work created by guest artists in their studio – they’re open daily from 10am to 5pm.

“Our relationship with the landscape and culture of the Pacific Northwest is central to our design practice. This place has a deep influence on how we see the world and inspires what we choose to make.”

Propellor Studio – Crafted Vancouver Propellor is a Vancouver based art and design studio that thrives on the challenge of creating useful, beautiful and ecologically minded objects. Propellor’s work spans a range of disciplines from lighting and furniture design to sculpture. Common threads run through all of Propellor’s work; an ...

"Event Partner Update: Mary Ratcliffe at SwitzerCult Creative //
In a new addition to their already impressive list of collections, SwitzerCultCreative is now representing Mary Ratcliffe Studio, a very talented designer & maker from Toronto, Canada. You can visit their showroom to check out some of the collection as well as pieces from their other lines!
Visit their Vancouver location at 102-1636 West 2nd Ave, or browse online at https://buff.ly/HyC9Op

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Rachael Ashe - Art Bikes 2021 //

Congrats to Rachael Ashe for being selected as one of the 5 artists whose designs you can now spot on the unique Mobi ArtBikes!

Three of her cut paper pattern designs will be included, and if you are very lucky, you will get a chance to ride one of these babies around town 🚲 🚲 🚲

Check out her full feature by Mobi: https://buff.ly/3EVVA5v
Images: Mobi

Event Partner News: The Mallo Swivel Chair at FFABB //

Have you seen FFABB Home's new addition to their family of collection pieces? The Mallo Swivel Chair – designed by lead designer Celina Dalrymple and manufactured in Vancouver – is the latest drop at the high-end furniture design studio.

What was the inspiration for this chair?

"Cozy//Comfort. I knew that I had wanted to add a swivel chair to the FFABB Home collection that was generous in size, juicy padded curves and was a little more modern that the other chairs in the family." – Celina Dalrymple

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3d1Rexs

Amacata on display | Event Partner News //

Daphne Woo’s naturally dyed home décor art pieces are available at the Pacific Arts Market now and until January 26, 2022 on the top floor among a diverse array of other artists' work.
Through her work, Daphne aims to spread awareness towards slow fashion alternatives and reconnect with nature to alter society’s reliance on fast fashion.

Visit the Market at 1450 W Broadway in Vancouver during the opening hours:
Monday & Tuesday Closed
Wednesday - Friday 12:00 pm–6:30 pm
Saturday & Sunday 11:30 am–5:30 pm

Featured Event Partner: John Atkin //

John Atkin is a civic historian, author, and heritage consultant. He has explored Vancouver like few others have and offers an interesting and offbeat insight to the city’s architecture, history and neighbourhoods through his walking tours, books, and blog. John is also part of our team as heritage consultant and culture walks coordinator.

Most recently with virtual walks and video tours, John takes us in a deep dive of our city: this year during Crafted Vancouver, we enjoyed a virtual stroll along Vancouver’s industrial waterfront. You can find a collection of recordings for purchase online through the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, including the latest tour - Monuments and Memorials: A Virtual Stroll through Vancouver’s War History: https://buff.ly/314x57K

You can also find John Atkin's historic Vancouver talks through the Vancouver Historical Society's YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5360RPME8

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Cultural Event Partner: Fundraiser //

The Craft Council of BC presents 100+ Musings – an installation of over one hundred pieces created and donated by visual artist Barbara Cohen.

Cohen has created each of the pieces with found materials collected over the course of her lengthy career. Her generous donation is in response to the question “how can I do good with my work?”

Every single ‘musing’ – as Cohen has named them – will be sold starting at the opening reception at the CCBC Gallery on December 2, 2021, 7-9pm. All proceeds will go to CCBC programming to support the craft sector.

In addition to the musings, Barbara Cohen has donated select jewellery for an online auction starting December 3rd, 2021.

Get your ticket:
Learn more: https://craftcouncilbc.ca/100-musings/

100+ MUSINGS An installation of small, detailed, handmade artwork for the the Craft Council of BC’s fall exhibition and fundraiser

Featured Event Partner: Rachael Ashe //

Cutting, sculpting, pattern-mixing – maker & designer Rachael Ashe draws inspiration from visual patterns found in nature; her hand-cut artwork – influenced by textile design and production – is an intersection of the disciplines of art, craft and design.
You can find Rachael and her intricate work at her studio in East Van – make sure to visit during the Eastside Culture Crawl, November 18-21!

“I am attracted to techniques that involve repetitive action as a form of meditation and devotional labour. I am curious to see how far a simple piece of paper can be sculpted and reformed as most of the surface is removed.” – Rachael

Featured Event Partner: Caliper - Mark Aseltine //

Caliper is a Vancouver-based design and fabrication studio specializing in wood. The studio’s work is deeply rooted in architecture and handcraft, merging the two and forming a unique world of furniture.

At the core of Caliper is its founder, Mark Aseltine, who in 2018, following several years of fabrication experience, including over a decade of studying and practicing architecture, set out to bring together his various passions into one reality.

Caliper is constantly designing and creating new furniture pieces – among them is the Weymoor table, a dining table that shows the process of fabrication for all to see and experience. Inspired by architectural forms with long exaggerated overhangs to emphasize the length of the table. This piece has joinery which merges the various components from all planes like a möbius strip leaving the eye wandering around the table. The solid wood table top has a hand shaped edge which brings a lightless to an otherwise monolithic dining surface.

Find the Weymoor Table and get to know Caliper: https://buff.ly/3Crfrr2

"The revival of Canadian-made textiles starts with small producers sharing their passion for their craft. In B.C., Macgee Cloth Company creates beautiful blankets that do just that."

Macgee Cloth Company’s heirloom blankets are woven on an antique loom with ethically sourced cotton and wool The revival of Canadian-made textiles starts with small producers sharing their passion for their craft. In B.C., Macgee Cloth Company creates beautiful blankets that do just that

Featured Event Partner: Valerie Arntzen //

Valerie Arntzen is an assemblage artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. She has been an artist for 30 years. She participated in self-directed residencies Los Angeles, California for 2 years and Amsterdam, Holland for 6 months.

Valerie’s work reflects her love for assemblage and her passion for collage and photography.

You can check out more of her work during the East Side in November at Paneficio Studios!
Images:
STAIRWAY TO SAINTHOOD collage on water colour paper 21” x 28”
FLYING HIGH 19” x 13” dia.
APOLLO collage on water colour paper 21” x 28”
UKIDAMA 10” x 6” x 4”

When driving or walking through the Burrard Bridge, have you noticed the four Art Deco lamp standards at either end of the bridge?

Fran Dawkins tells us more about these structures – recreations of the braziers used in prisoner of war camps – that commemorate and honour Canadians who served during the First World War.

Read the full blog post 👇

A Coda to Commemoration – Crafted Vancouver Work on the Burrard Street Bridge began in December 1930; the steel and concrete vision of architect GLT Sharp and engineer Major John R Grant officially opened on July 1st 1932. The art-deco styled, steel truss bridge, with its central piers, overhead galleries and figure head sculptures crossing F...

Event Partner News | Amanda Wood: UNSETTLED //

THIS gallery, a previously online-only art gallery, presents UNSETTLED, their new exhibition now at a brick-and-mortar gallery. UNSETTLED features the work of 19 artists from as far as Buenos Aires, New York, UK, and Italy as well as five local Vancouver artists.

These works – each of them a response to the prompt ‘Unsettled’ – will be on view online and in-person until January 30, 2022.
Featured in UNSETLLED is Event Partner Amanda Wood:

“I wanted to deeply understand the emotional connections, and texture of woven cloth by removing function and tactility. To suspend time for a moment and think about how multiple forms could exist simultaneously, in-between, in a place of both/and. To capture a threshold or a fleeting moment of non-being.”
Online: November 1, 2021 – January 30, 2022
Vancouver in-person: November 6, 2021 – January 30, 2021

Learn more at

Unsettled - THIS_______________________ Like particles suspended in liquid, we float—restless and bodiless in these murky times. Heat and drought push animals and humans in wide swaths from their homes. Politics and viruses cross our boundaries. Floods make us nomads. We are in suspense—what will happen next? We are “left hanging......

Companion Planting: Bridget Bailey & Margaret Proudfoot at White Box Gallery //

The idea for Companion Planting began through the need to meet outside. Walks on the allotment during lockdown evolved into looking, drawing and making with intent.

From noticing how ivy finds its way through a fence, to describing the anatomy of a grass stem, Bridget and Margaret each bring their own observations, passions and processes to this exhibition. Working together gives interesting insights into each other’s ways of making, thinking and has led to some intriguing pieces, from barbed wire sprouting shoots, to chain link fence ‘rewilding.’

The exhibition is at in London, open from 11am to 6pm during the next three weekends: November 13 – 14, 20 – 21, and 27 -28.
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Featured Event Partner: Omer Arbel Office //

Omer Arbel Office is the creative hub of a constellation of companies – Bocci among them – structured to realize ideas of varying scale and across a wide spectrum of contexts and environments.

Based between Vancouver and Berlin, Omer Arbel cultivates a fluid position between the fields of building, sculpture, invention, and design. Focal themes of his work include investigation of intrinsic mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials and exploration of light as a medium.

Experimentation drives Omer Arbel’s art and design practice. He manipulates basic materials by applying heat, force, pressure, electricity, or movement to achieve surprising results. Most recently, through their project, 108 Lighting capture, where javelins are shot into the sky during a thunderstorm with a conductive cable that leads to a canister with metal and mineral powders; the heat of the electric discharge transforms these powders into fulgurites - the unique prints of a lightning bolt.
https://omerarbel.com/

CSDA Sundays: Jessie LaFleur x Marion Couvreur //

We're excited for this weekend's conversation, presented in partnership with !

Join woodworker in a live, illustrated conversation with Crafted Vancouver’s where they will discuss their approach to woodcraft.

🔗Register online for this talk:https://buff.ly/2ZL6hIA
💙Free registration for CSDA and Crafted Vancouver Members
Artwork: Cordero, Jessie LaFleur, photographed by Melissa Renwick

Elen Danielle at Circle Craft - Exhibition //

The beautiful work of Elen Danielle, 2021 Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist - Carter Wosk Award for Applied Art + Design awarded by the BC Achievement Foundation, will be on view at Circle Craft on November 6th & 7th, 2021.

Go down to Granville Island this weekend to view her new pieces on display from 10 am to 5 pm.