Bill is an energetic and passionate quilt-maker, motivated to create work that changes the way folks view the world.His work pushes limits, challenges tradition, redefines quilt-making, and explores alternate materials and techniques.He is a storyteller and quilts are his medium. While the experiences and issues addressed in his work are his own, viewers react to them on both a general and a personal level. His goal is for viewers to think, react, have conversations; that they’ll see his work as true and honest; something that matters; something that will make a difference.

Christianna Ferguson Christianna Ferguson is a textile artist and educator with a full time studio practice in Lakefield Ontario. Working primarily making handmade felt, her work is recognizable for it’s colourful multi-layered surface design and ranges from wearables and accessories to conceptual work. Making textiles with this simple yet versatile material allows her to play with colour, texture, pattern, form and surface design in an infinite number of ways. Christianna’s passion for felt began during a year abroad in Western Australia where she joined a Felting Guild in 2012. She is the ...

Colleen has spent years developing and improving her fibre skills. She is a weaver, spinner, dyer, stitcher and is now focused on botanical printing and both wet and needle felting. Functionality is important and the use of natural dyes and fibres coincide with her belief in being kind to our threatened ecosystem.She has studied locally and abroad: Scandinavia, England, New Zealand, Thailand and France. Membership in many professional guilds and organizations keeps her in touch with the latest trends. Currently Colleen belongs to Felt-Feutre in Canada, International Fibre Association of ...

Dana has a master’s degree in architecture. She worked in Prague and Toronto architectural firms before switching to textile art. In 1978, Dana established and ran the company Artacious, designing and painting textile art wall pieces, silk fabrics and artwear. Since moving from Toronto to Canmore in 1997, Dana has become involved in the Alberta art community and is now a full-time studio artist, working in mixed media, acrylics and textiles. Dana won many awards for her art locally, nationally and internationally; one of the local awards was the textile art competition for Canmore Art Trust ...

In the heart of Lamps Studio Design beats a passion for colour, life, and sustainability. My creative process is a dance of materials and inspiration, merging sustainably sourced natural elements with the vibrant spirit of Latino style. Banana paper from Brazil is my muse, a medium that embodies the harmonious blend of art and nature. Crafted by women entrepreneurs committed to sustainability, each sheet of banana paper tells a story of resilience and creativity. My designs breathe life into this unique material, creating lampshades and luminaires that are as individual as the hands that ...

My spirit name isEastern Turtle Woman of the Marten Clan. My ancestors come from Serpent River First Nation on the north shore of Georgian Bay. I still make my home along Georgian Bay, on the south shore in Midland, Ontario. My given name is Elizabeth Cascagnette. My home is my studio where am I am inspired throughout the seasons because of my view of Midland Harbour. I work with natural fibres and each ball of yarn is destined to become a finished product based on the texture and colour that speaks to me as to what it will become. Everything I sew is inspired by indigenous-patterned fabric I ...

Emerance Baker is an Upper Cayuga/Hungarian textiles based craftsperson who lives in a little log cabin in the country beside Stoney Lake in the Kawarthas, Ontario. Emerance loves all things textiles and slow craft but focuses her studio work on custom garment making, bag design, surface pattern design, textile printing, and textile dying. Given her concern for the environment she prioritizes zero waste and sustainable craft in her studio practices. She's a retired educator and researcher who loves to teach in her studio and continues to learn as much as she can about textile craft. 

Helen Liene Dreifelds is an emerging visual artist working in sculpture and installation informed bytextile thinking. Through structured improvisation, her work investigates transformation throughthemes of affect, translation, hybrid folklore, and duration. Speaking Through Flowers: CulturalMistranslations and Material Entanglements is the working title of her most recent artistic researchdriven by the questions: How do change processes occur? What enables shifts in knowledge? Howcould mistranslations and entanglements reveal aspects of the past, present, and possible future(s)? Shared studio ...

LEECH GALLERYAs a family of visual artists (Cindy, Henry, and Bill Buzádi), we have developed the Leech Gallery Artist Collective which produces, exhibits and sells, original artwork including garments and accessories. We collaborate on our collection in our shared studios based in Toronto's Lakeshore Village Artists' Cooperative. Leech Gallery aims to provide an artistic form of self-expression through wearable art. We treat the garment as our canvas. The wearer choses a one-of-a-kind piece that speaks to them and, through social interactions, participates in an ongoing, travelling ...

Bayberry bags are made from thrifted or upcycled fabric and are unique and handmade to order in Canada. Jen, the designer and maker, is passionate about sustainable fashion and loves everything about the process. She enjoys finding fabric at thrift stores and estate sales across the country, designing bags, matching straps to linings, making hardware choices, and the joy of putting a finished bag in the hands of its owner. Jen splits her time between Ontario and Prince Edward Island, and the brand Bayberry is inspired by the plant of the same name which thrives at Jen’s PEI oceanside ...

Jill Priceis a Canadian artist grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Anishinaabeg peoples in Barrie, Ontario. Working at the intersections of craft, drawing, performance and environmental activism, Price achieved her BFA and B.Ed. at the University of Western Ontario and received SSHRC research fellowships for her OCADU MFA thesisLand as Archive: A Collection of Seen & Unseen Shadows. Also receiving a SSHRC research fellowship for a research-creation PhD at Queen’s University, Price’s thesis From Unsettling to Unmaking investigate how unmaking can be a ...

My objective is a cross over of fine art and craft, using painting's forms at times to display craft's forms.This mixture allows me to explore both areas.The first image is called "Garden Patch" #1, one of a series of four showing a narrative of the growth of a plant to the form of a textile. It is made of clothes line cording, the series is on my website in the gallery called "Concepts and Other Musings."The second image is a sculptural form, made from children's stuffed animals taken apart and restitched together to form what I have titled as "Soft Picasso" because of the eyes that look at ...

Gezellig Studio textiles are handmade by Hamilton, Ontario, artist and writer Kristy Woudstra. With the intention of sustainability, Kristy produces modern and meaningful quilts and wall-hangings with all-natural fibres. Her line of stuffed animals, called the Grumpy Faces, are made with felt that is created with recycled plastic bottles. What does "gezellig" (heh-sell-ick) mean? It's a Dutch word that doesn't have a direct English translation. It's more of a feeling or state of mind. Think of those special moments when you're completely present, sharing a laugh with loved ones without a care ...

I combine knits, sheer, faux fur and selected upscaled fabric to create soft wearable art. Originally trained in multimedia design, I formerly created commissioned digital art collage while working in digital content. Currently I use fabric collage as a form of self-expression while focusing on colour and texture.

Using a multidisciplinary approach in my working process, I employ a wide range of techniques and materials: hand-bleaching, stamping, cyanotype, quilting, embroidery, pyrography, weaving, patchwork, collage and appliqué. The most important aspect of my work which I return to again and again is the exploration of clothing as an art object, its depiction and deconstruction.Through the use of primitivism, natural materials, patterns and animistic imagery, I return to the apparent simplicity and integrity of indigenous cultures and ethnicities with a harmony of synthesis in all areas of society: ...

Inspiration Vintage is the result of my passion for things from the past. I love to create vintage inspired undergarments and accessories. My pieces are sassy, comfy and lovingly handmade using cotton and bamboo fibres in sizes XS-2X.

I make fabric covered rope coiled baskets and mats in a variety of sizes and shapes.  I work alone from a home studio. I have been doing this for about ten years and sell at various craft shows.

Sheila Thompson, is a woman in science and a seasoned fibre artist with over 18 years of expertise in fine woolen and silk art felting. Sheila crafts geo-centric, organic and eco-focused pieces using advanced wet felting techniques. Her work passionately addresses climate and environmental issues, weaving narratives around themes like human-environmental clashes, political short-sightedness, social justice and celebrations of eco-phenomena. She situates much of her work in the year 2050 to advocate for decision making that considers the long term implications. She is a member of the ...

Fiber Fine Artist. Felting technique and Mixed Media

Bio Valerie Carew(Toronto, Ontario) is an interdisciplinary artist who exploreshuman/land relationships through performance, body based sculpture, installation,painting and fibre craft practice. Immersive role-play and biomimicry are combined withsculpture and textile craft to express experiences with land and identity. Valerie'ssculptural works are designed for interplay and physical contact with the human body.She incorporates nostalgia, myth-making and material transformation to imagine newfutures defined by a greater connection to the wild. StatementEngagement with land is a big ...

Yvette-Michelle Cottle Darby is a multidisciplinary textile artist from Oro-Medonte, justoff LakeSImcoe. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago and is of African Caribbean heritage. Yvette-Michelle has worked as an accessories designer, textile artist, creative instructor, and creative business development consultant for over 20 years. She expresses herself through a variety of traditional crafts and photography. Yvette-Michelle's current work is an exploration in taking traditional artforms and finding new applications. It is also a look into sustainable crafting. www.craftedspace.com ...