EXHIBITIONS
In art and craft, as producers of “products”, we are often pre-occupied with value. In craft, at its core, value is represented by price and defined through cost of materials and time. Value and price can be more subjective, what are the clients willing to pay? what is the imaginary standing of the artist based on exhibitions, gallery representation, presence in private and museum collections? We produce small amounts, with our own hands, supply and demand can drive value all by itself.
As craft artists we often create pieces that are functional, which seems to diminish their value. Yet we have the privilege of inviting people to interact with an art piece in their everyday life, wearing handmade jewellery or drinking their coffee from a thrown ceramic mug. Art in the everyday and ethical production of goods.
As an artist and a gallery owner the accessibility of art to the public is preoccupying but it is equally as important that artists are paid fairly for their work. I spend much time explaining the seemingly high costs of the pieces in my space, which often have razor thin profit margins for their makers despite the “high prices”. They are too much while still being not enough.
Galerie Lewis: trop / pas assez (too much / not enough)
Wildfire contemplates our shifting relationship with fire. The experiences surrounding wildfires are increasingly shared, regardless of the country or region in which we reside. The effects ripple far, and wildfires are becoming more prevalent and severe. This exhibition features diverse, critical work from artists based across many areas and nations, and includes both urban and rural experiences. There is an emergent sense of relationship, care and loss that suggests both the need for critical responses to the climate crisis and an increase in kin-centric thinking and living.
Wildfire is on exhibit mid-winter, the most insulated moment of the year to feel distance from wildfire. The smoke from the summer has probably worked its way through our systems, and perhaps our lungs are nearly clear (or as clear as they ever are). But in a couple of months, another early fire season may be announced. Or maybe, if we are lucky, there will be enough snow in the bush, and still more to replenish our dry lakes and reservoirs. If we get the chance, perhaps this is the year we all find ways to change the things we can, to care more, and to take the time to find paths that, at first, tend to seem impossible. Collectively, we are all learning to mourn, to ignore, and to meditate on a wound that won’t heal.
This year, Alberta Craft is celebrating 45 years of promoting and advocating for Craft in our province. As part of the celebration, we are presenting Craft Perspectives, which invites artists to reflect on the past while considering the future of Craft in Alberta.
Craft Perspectives showcases new works inspired by historical objects, archival collections, and cultural artifacts found across the province. Artists have delved into museum vaults, explored archival treasures, and uncovered forgotten stories—reimagining them through the lens of contemporary Craft.
Participating artists: Brett Boyd, Brooke Bampton, Caitlin Sian Richards, Christie Foreman, Devon Clark, Elaine Zimmer, Glenda Schoepp-Drake, Gracie Safranovich, Heather Kehoe, Katelin Karbonik, Lara Felsing, Margaret R. Hall, MJ Belcourt, Ruby Sweetman, Sara Norquay, Vivian Smith
Alberta Craft council Calgary: Craft Perspectives
UPCOMING
The Thread of the Wish is a group exhibition that explores weaving and other interlace textile practices–examining their roles in storytelling, particularly within racialized and religiously diverse communities.
The exhibition title, drawn from Sigmund Freud’s essay on creativity, reflects how the past and future are connected by the thread of desire, including desire for a better world, to heal from harm, and to understand the past.
Textiles are often closely connected with our bodies, providing shelter, comfort, and warmth, while also telegraphing our identities through the woven designs that adorn our bodies and living spaces. Fingers weave together many threads, speaking of the intertwined nature of our lives and the labour of expressing an identity.
Art Gallery of Regina: The Thread of the Wish
PAST
Featured Artists: Juwayriya, Forouzan Afrouzi Pops & Cheeks, Emily Chu, Charlton Diaz, Lara Felsing, Olivia Forsyth, Riisa Gundesen, Krissya Iraheta,Kaitlyn Konkin, Lindsay Sutton, Becky Thera, Freyja Ulveland, Salem Zurch
Latitude 53’s signature annual fundraising event returns for another year! Join us in a spectacular celebration of artists and the community that supports them. Funds raised will directly support our programming and gallery space, allowing us to continue to provide opportunities for contemporary artists, curators and writers with programming that is free and low-cost throughout the year.
Running annually since 1998, Schmoozy has evolved from a silent art auction to an exhibition with works for sale by local artists. Works will be on sale both online and in-person for the duration of the show, providing artists, both emerging and established, with opportunities to grow their audience, get paid for their work, and connect with other artists and art lovers alike within the community.
Plant a seed – grow a meadow. Plant new coral – heal a reef. Plant a poem – whole worlds take root.
Step inside a library like no other. Here, books are made from woodland debris and kelp leather; words are printed with soils and plant inks; and poems are shaped by the voices of deer, bats, and our changing seasons.
The Living Library at the Landmark Arts Centre is a day-long festival of multisensory creativity inspired by the natural world. Wander through an ecosystem of exhibited poetry curated by experts from Royal Holloway, University of London. Explore new approaches to bookmaking and nature writing through hands-on demonstrations, performances, and workshops. Become part of our living ecosystem by adding your own poems to a unique public display.
Bemis Center’s Benefit Art Auction is Omaha’s premier celebration of contemporary art, attracting more than 1,500 established business leaders, emerging professionals, artists, and other movers and shakers in our region to the two-week exhibition and October 24 auction event. Proceeds support participating artists and help ensure Bemis Center’s exhibitions, artist residencies, LOW END performances, and public programs remain free and accessible to all, year-round.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Benefit Auction 2025
Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery – Edmonton
July 26 – November 1, 2025
Reception: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 2 – 4pm
Woodland Gestures, a collaborative exhibition by Lara Felsing and David McGregor, invites connection with the complexity of Alberta’s forest ecosystems. Centered on generative interactions with the land, the work reflects each artist’s distinct approach to gathering. Through attentive presence, the artists express a shared kincentric relationship with the natural world and a deep care for the places they inhabit and explore.
Alberta Craft Council: Woodland Gestures
In this final exhibition marking the Art Gallery of Alberta’s 100th anniversary, fourteen Alberta artists consider collective and individual futures while reflecting on two interrelated questions: What can we hold onto? And What will we leave behind? This exhibition considers what we need, what we don’t, what is possible to maintain and the marks and legacies we leave. Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman.
Artists: Mohammad Abbasi, Forouzan Afrouzi, Erin Boake, Raneece Buddan, Lauren Chipeur, Lara Felsing, Megan Feniak, Cheyenne LeGrande, Simone Saunders, Angeline Simon, Taiessa, Teresa Tam, Allison Tunis, Alex R.M. Thompson
Art Gallery of Alberta: what we leave, what we take
To enter Kinship Ecologies is to step into an expression of overwhelming gratitude for the natural world—the smell of the land perfumes the space. Everything is harvested, gifted or reclaimed and will ultimately decompose into the land.
Lara Felsing knows that her hands are the same as those of her mother, grandmother and daughter. They are hands that harvest medicines, pick berries and make dyes. Generations of her family, strong Métis and Woodland Cree women have preserved the land’s wisdom, knowledge and skills.
For Lara, this is only a small gift of thanks given to the land to kin. Kinship with the land is a collaboration, a partnership. It is a relationship built on care that our society has been sorely neglecting. Reparation will be the work of generations and will not be as whole as it once was.
Art Gallery of St Albert: Kinship Ecologies
Explore Alberta Craft’s national exhibition, Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving, highlighting the work of twenty-one Craft artists across Canada. In this group exhibition, artists investigate a variety of approaches to weaving. Works range from traditional to conceptual, where material and methods are both revered and subverted. Artists address themes of sustainability, mass production, and climate change, while others delve into topics such as queer and trans identity, feminism, and the societal value of labour in textiles. See how this group of artists skillfully employ and challenge our notions of weaving in physical and virtual spaces.
Participating artists:
Anthea Black, Camille Richart, Carol Ann Apilado, Corrina Hammond, Crys Harse, Dan Laine, Deb Turner, Fern Facette, Harrison Sirois, James Lavoie, Jen Hiebert, Karla Mather-Cocks, Kate Ritchie, Kelly Ruth, Lara Felsing, Liv Pedersen, Mati Laforge, Nur Cirakoglu, Ozana Gherman, Shelley Ouellet, Sylvie Roussel-Janssens
land, body, sister is an interdisciplinary collaborative project by Métis artists Lara Felsing and Gabriella Heron. Clothing made from upcycled second-hand plant medicine-dyed fabrics and repurposed remnants is stitched together to honour the artists’ connection to land and body. Created at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, land, body, sister shares process photographs and land-based inspiration alongside one-of-a-kind garments. Curated by Gabriella Heron. June 2 – 27, Red Brick Arts Centre & Museum, Edson, AB.
Ana Watterson, fiber artist, Gallery Manager of the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, and organizer of Yarn & Yack, a monthly knitting and fiber workshop, put out a call for artists working in and around textiles.
Inspired by the warmth, community, and creativity cultivated in these monthly meetings, the goal of this show is to explore a shared knowledge of fiber arts, as well as spotlight individual artistic practices. Each maker has their own unique story. Whether learned from or inspired by a mother, grandmother, friend or the internet the work connects and exchanges individual stories and traditions. The pathways of these threads and fibers tell the history of how knowledge is passed, how bonds are formed and pieces composed.
Watterson seeks to extend this experience to visitors;
I want them to contemplate the hands in each work, the knowledge, time, memory that is imbued in these pieces. I want them to wonder how it’s made, to leave and come back, go to one of our workshops, have some questions answered, but leave with more.
Collective Threads is a culmination of social, pedagogical and physical experiences. In its tapestries, weavings, illustrations, and quilts the community can see the breadth of textile media and depth of personal dedication to practice.
Contributing Artists: Lucy Beizer, Madison Berg, Kelly Boehmer, Capucine Bourcart, Katie Commodore, Lara Felsing, Candace Hicks, Eleanor Kagan, Layla Klinger, Shradha Kochhar, Steven and William Ladd, Spandita Malik, Jonathan Michaud, Erin McQuarrie, Kate Phillips, Leslie Pontz, Henry Rolnick, Rachel Snack, Christl Stringer, Ana Watterson and Jessie Mordine Young
Visual poets come together for a fascinating show of tactile poetry as part of Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial 2024
This 3-day long exhibition brings together artist’s books with sculptural quality and introduces international artists to Swedish audiences and beyond. Some of the featuring works involve beeswax, discarded textiles, cards and more. This visual poetry exhibition will be curated by visual poet Astra Papachristodoulou and is being held at the historic Victoriateatern in Malmö, Sweden.
The exhibition features a selection of object poems by Joakim Norling’s Malmö-based
Timglaset as well as UK-based zimZalla (UK), Guillemot Press and Essence Press amongst others. The contributing artists showcase ways of elevating the written word from off the page in interesting ways. Participating artists include Hartmut Abendschein, Simon Collings, Stephen Emmerson, Lara Felsing, Caroline Harris, Sophie Herxheimer, Briony Hughes, Yvonne Litschel, Imri Sandström, Karenjit Sandhu, Vik Shirley and Greg Thomas.
An exhibition rooted in collaboration, conversation, and knowledge-sharing, Listening to the Land presents recent works by Treaty 6 based artists Christina Battle and Lara Felsing. Considering our relationships to land and community, as well as the potentials of artistic gesture during times of crisis, this exhibition invites viewers to engage in conversations centering caring and careful perspectives of approach.
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