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 ...

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 ...

Fiber Fine Artist. Felting technique and Mixed Media

Sheila Thompson, is a womanin science and a seasoned fibre artist with over 18 years of expertise in finewoolen and silk art felting. Sheila crafts geo-centric, organic and eco-focusedpieces using advanced wet felting techniques. Her work passionately addressesclimate and environmental issues, weaving narratives around themes likehuman-environmental clashes, political short-sightedness, social justice andcelebrations 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 Connections ...

Sharlene Young-Bolen has a focus on historic knitting pattern research and reproductions. She is a knitting hobbyist with an interest in needlework history & a love of natural fibres  and just completed the production of her second knitting kit, the Wheeler Mitts Knitting Kit. The kit is inspired by a pair of knitted gloves from 1870 held in the textile collection of the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol. Sharlene enjoys working with natural fibres and using vintage textiles and patterns as sources of inspiration.

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.

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 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.

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 ...

Note: current listing in the Citizes of Craft Directory is fine. Image descriptions for the attached files:1. imbibe like roots - eastern redbud pods, hydrangea blossoms, linden and euonymous leaves; hemp and paper threads 2.  imbibe like roots (detail)3. wild iris - iris fronds, woven hemp and paper threads4. wild iris (detail)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...