Micah Adams and I worked on a collaborative project that will be included in this year's addition of Come Up to My Room in one of their public spaces.
The Gladstone Hotel's 8th Annual Alternative Design Event: 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Exhibition Hours
Thursday, January 24: 6-8pm
Friday, January 25: 11am-8pm
Saturday, January 26: 11am-10pm
Sunday, January 27: 11am-5pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26: 7-11pm
Love Design Party: Saturday, January 26: 10pm-2:30am
This group exhibition will feature my work along with other award winners from the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition from 2012.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 24, 2012, 6-8 pm
Exhibition runs from January 24 - February28, 2012
Location: FCP Gallery
100 King Street West, Toronto
*FCP Gallery is located inside First Canadian Place at King Street West and Bay Street.
Gallery Hours Monday-Sunday: 11:00-3:00
The Design*Sponge Scholarship is intended to assist art and design students in the pursuit of their creative endeavors through financial support. For this year's competition, I placed third in the graduate student category!
Thanks to Design Sponge* for their support!
>Stanzie Tooth and I have curated an exhibition called Material Connections as a part of the World of Threads Festival. Material Connection brings together three contemporary fibre artists; Meghan Price, Anna Torma and Xiaojing Yan, whose varied use of materials and cultural backgrounds gives a sampling of the dynamic world of fibre arts.
Exhibition runs from: Nov 8th – Dec 16th, 2012 Lonsdale Gallery, 410 Spadina Road, Toronto
I will be going back to school to pursue my MFA at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. I will be studying in the Fibers & Material Studies Department! This is a photo of my studio space.
"Pre-Occupied” is a pop up exhbition featuring work that deals with various themes of occupation. This exhibition explores how our pre-occupations are manifested in objects. Some of the artists include: Kasia Czarnota, Hey Day Design, Hugo Dieter, Brothers Dressler, Public Displays of Affection (PDA), Sally McCubbin, Amanda McCavour among others.
I will be redesigning a chair for this event!
The Project: To redesign, reimagine and reinvent a chair that
will be auctioned that night, with proceeds in support of the
Textile Museum's exhibitions, collections and public programs
Pre-Occupied. An exhibition of ideas, objects and occupations
"Pre-Occupied” is a pop up exhbition featuring work that deals with various themes of occupation. This exhibition explores how our pre-occupations are manifested in objects. Some of the artists include: Kasia Czarnota, Hey Day Design, Hugo Dieter, Brothers Dressler, Public Displays of Affection (PDA), Sally McCubbin, Amanda McCavour among others.
Reception and Awards Presentation:
Sunday September 30, 2012, 2:00 pm
Exhibition runs from: August 31st – October 7th, 2012
Grimsby Public Art Gallery: 18 Carnegie Ln., Grimsby, ON., L3M 1Y1
*QueenSpecific is a window exhibition space displaying site specific art installations. I will be showing some lined paper samples in this window gallery on Queen Street West.
Exhibition runs from: August 10 - September 12, 2012
Queen Specific*: 787 Queen Street West, Toronto
"A new piece of colourful scribbles will be on display 24 hours a day. Neon Cloud explores embroidery’s subtle quality versus it’s accumulative presence. Through the accumulation of sewn line, this piece is an intricate three-dimensional scribble.
The Stantec Window Gallery is located at 24 Spadina Avenue on the West side of the street.
Pre-Occupied. An exhibition of ideas, objects and occupations
"Pre-Occupied” is a pop up exhbition featuring work that deals with various themes of occupation. This exhibition explores how our pre-occupations are manifested in objects. Some of the artists include: Kasia Czarnota, Hey Day Design, Hugo Dieter, Brothers Dressler, Public Displays of Affection (PDA), Sally McCubbin, Amanda McCavour among others.
Opening Reception: March 11, 2012
Exhibition runs from March 11, 2012
Exhibition Hours: Weekends, noon-6pm
173 Macdonell Ave., Toronto
Flightpath is a journey from A to B. Presented by Knock Twice, this new monthly lecture series invites two young artists/creatives to share their experience, speaking about what they do and how they got there, in one inspiring evening.
February 28, 2012 at 7:30 pm (Doors open at 7)
Speakers: Amanda McNaughton & Amanda McCavour
The Ossington
61 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
This exhibition at the Design Exchange, will focus on the textiles and patterns of the work of Marlis Saunders, Canadian Bauhaus pioneer. I will be making a new installation piece for this exhibition based on pattern and repetition.
Exhibition runs from March 7-April 23, 2012
Design Exchange
234 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Hours:
Monday to Friday 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Saturday to Sunday 12:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
This exhibition will feature one of my room installations which will be relocated and installed at La GNO in Sudbury.
Exhibition runs from February 25 - March 24, 2012
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
174 Rue Elgin
Sudbury, Ontario
The second annual Do Design event will turn storefronts on Toronto's Dundas Street West between Bathurst Street and Grace Street, into exhibition venues for design objects. My installation will be in the window of "Saving Grace".
Exhibition runs from January 27-January 30, 2012.
ARTiculations is a new art supply store (+ gallery + resource center) opening up in my neighborhood; the Junction. I will be showing work in the window space and the Earl Selkirk gallery within the store.
Opening Reception (and Grand opening of the store!): Thursday, December 1, 2011, 8-10 pm
Exhibition runs from December 1-January 20, 2012
ARTiculations Earl Selkirk gallery
2928 Dundas St West (The Junction)
Toronto, ON
Exhibition runs from November 1-30, 2011
Iasi, Romania
November 2011
Accumulate
Presented by MADE
For this project, building, stacking and folding will be explored through a new embroidered work. This piece will be a playful exploration of materials and structure.
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 9:30-11
Exhibition runs from November 3-February 27, 2012
The Gladstone Hotel Cafe
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
In November, the Textile Museum of Canada will launch reDESIGN at the Gladstone Hotel on the occasion of the Museum's 36th birthday. I will be redesigning a chair for the event! The Project: To redesign, reimagine and reinvent an armchair that will be auctioned that night, with proceeds in support of the Textile Museum's exhibitions, collections and public programs.
Gala: Thursday, November 3, 6:30-9:00
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
My Installation "Stand In for Home" has been selected as a Special Project installation for this year's Art Toronto 2011. I will also be featured in Lonsdale Gallery's booth at the fair (booth #1008).
Opening Night Preview: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 6:30-10:00 **tickets are $200
Exhibition runs from October 28-October 31, 2011
Public Hours:
Friday, October 28, 2011: 12-8
Saturday, October 29, 2011: 12-8
Sunday, October 30, 2011: 12-6
Monday, October 31, 2011: 12-6
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B
255 Front Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Opening Reception: August 26th, 2011
Exhibition runs from August 26th-August 31st, 2011
Studio Beluga, 160 St-Viateur Est, Suite 508A, Montreal, QC, H2T 1A8
A new textile installation in the MADE cooler space.
Opening Reception May 5th, 7-9 pm
Exhibition runs from May 5th-June 30th, 2011
MADE
867 Dundas Street West, Toronto
January-February 2011
AVIAN
January 16 – February 20, 2011?opening reception Sunday, January 16th from 2-5pm
Amanda McCavour, Julie Oakes, Peggy Taylor Reid
The Gladstone Hotel's 8th Annual Alternative Design Event: 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Press Preview, January 27th 4-8pm
Opening Reception, Saturday January 29 7-10pm
Love Design Party, Saturday January 29 10pm
The Gladstone Hotel: 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Friday November 26, 2010 to Sunday January 30, 2011 with exhibition hours of 12pm-5pm daily. Opening Reception: 6pm-9pm on Friday Nov 26, 2010
2010 Awards & Scholarships Recipients from the Ontario Crafts Council
I was awarded the Volunteer Committee Scholarship from the Ontario Crafts Council. As a part of this scholarship, I will be exhibiting work in the Award Winners 2010 Show. The show runs from June 2 to July 25, 2010 at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery which is at 99 Queen Street West, Toronto.
This video was shot at the main gallery at Harbourfront Centre and was on view at the Cheongju International Craft Biennial in Korea as a part of the Canadian Guest Pavillion. The exhibition was titled, "Unity and Diversity" and was on display in Korea from September 23 to November 1, 2009. This video interviews residents from each of the craft studios at Harbourfront Centre which is where I have been doing a residency in their Textile Studio from June 2007 to May 2010.