Category Archives: Fibre Art

[columns] [span4] [/span4][span8] [/span8][/columns] The Fibre Report with Joe Lewis J. Penney Burton is an independent curator, artist, and writer with an M.A. in Fine Arts from Concordia University who specializes in contemporary Canadian fibre art and artists. She has presented papers on Canadian Textiles and Fibre practitioners at national (Neocraft in Halifax 2007) and […]

[columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4] [span4] [/span4] [/columns] Legacy was created for and entered into the juried exhibition Threadworks 2010, a national competition of needle arts which tours Ontario galleries and museums for three years. Every entry submitted to the show was to interpret the theme of Trees. It was my first submission into a juried […]

[columns] [span6]   [/span6][span6]   [/span6][/columns] The Fibre Report with Joe Lewis At age 16, I discovered the American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein who spent most of her adult life in Paris, France. In 1914 she published a book of poetry entitled Tender Buttons. In Paris, Ontario, I grew up with a fascination for the […]

[columns] [span6]   [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] I am a self taught fibre and embroidery artist in Saskatoon, and this is my love story. I was raised on the prairie by a landscape artist who couldn’t sew.  I have relatives whom I deeply admire because of their magical abilities to sew, quilt, and cross stitch. As a […]