Exhibitions

The Urban Weaver Project

May 14, 2012

May 2 – June 1 at the Britannia Art Gallery, 1661 Napier Street (in the library, off Commercial Drive)  www.britanniacentre.org Come view the incredible work by community members using invasive plants from from Stanley Park.

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Gail Harker Center for Creative Studies

May 9, 2012

La Conner is home to  the Gail Harker Center for Creative Studies.  Jill would love to see you there as she and new Vancouver Guild of Fiber Artists member Debbie are both exhibiting their Diploma Level Experimental Research for Advanced Design work, along with the dynamic Art & Design work of seven other students. Saturday [...]

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Capilano University Textile Arts Grad Show 2012

May 9, 2012

All guild members are invited to Arts Grad Show at the Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave., Deep Cove, B.C.    The opening reception is May 22, 7-9pm; artists’ talk on May 27 at 2pm and the exhibit runs from May 22 – 27.  For more information visit seymourartgallery.com or Capilano University’s blog:  textileartscapu.com.

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TEXTiles at the Silk Weaving Studio

May 9, 2012

New works that incorporate “text” – the words in a written work, and “textile” – from the Latin “textere”, meaning “to weave” at the Silk Weaving Studio (1531 Johnston St. – on waterfront next to Sandbar Restaurant, Granville Island).  Opening reception Thursday, June 7, 6-8pm; show from Thursday, June 7 – Wednesday, July 4 (10-5pm [...]

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75th Anniversary GVWSG Symposium and Exhibitions

August 31, 2009

In 1935 nine women came together and founded our Guild. Forty years later the membership stood at 354 and today we are about 150 strong. In addition to our monthly meetings and programmes, the Guild has held sales, exhibitions, many workshops, hosted conferences including Convergence in 2002, built an excellent library, published a newsletter and [...]

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Paper Fashion Show and Gallery Exhibit Update

July 16, 2009

Paper Like You Have Never Seen it Before Summer in the city – what could be better than a week on Granville Island, enjoying the many exhibitions, large and small, as well as the ongoing demonstrations of work by Korean and BC artists working with fibre. Emily Carr University on Granville Island in Vancouver is [...]

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Events around “Fibre, Naturally”

May 19, 2009

Summertime – yes, it really is just around the corner, and so are all the exciting events connected with the exhibit, Fibre, Naturally, being held in the Concourse Gallery at Emily Carr University in August. The exhibit itself runs from August 11 – 16, from 8am to 6pm from Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 6pm [...]

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BC – Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival – 2009 (Submission Details)

May 4, 2009

BC – Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival – 2009 Fibre, Naturally Paper Like You Have Never Seen it Before TICKETS for the extraordinary paper garment Fashion Show, part of the exhibit Fibre, Naturally will be available to Guild members in May, before they go on sale to the general public in June. Fashion Show Emily Carr [...]

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Paper Like You Have Never Seen it Before

April 13, 2009

BC – Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival – 2009 Fibre, Naturally Wow, we’ve seen previews of some of the work from our own Guild artists, and this is one exhibit you won’t want to miss! And there will be lots going on all over Granville Island so mark the week of August 11 – 16 on [...]

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Update: B.C. – Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival 2009

March 26, 2009

The Korean art of Hanji is a centuries old tradition of making paper with the bark of the mulberry tree. Korean artisans have moved this tradition beyond its original borders, making not only beautiful papers, but also paper yarns, and fabrics using silk, cotton, or linen warp and paper weft. The VGFA, and the GVWSG, [...]

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