Articulation Textile Group

After a very successful year as an exhibiting group, Articulation Textile Group made a collective decision to concentrate on our personal studio practice, to focus on ideas that truly inspired them individually and to see where these new creative trails would lead them. We coined the descriptor, "out of the studio", in reference to the potential creative discoveries we were poised to make excavating personal discoveries in fibre. Given the global situation that continues to evolve, on a daily and even hourly basis, Articulation members have been wise to turn into their studios to self isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. I don't think any of us would ever ignore a directive to seek quiet time and be creative, we would, along with the rest of the world however, prefer to not be dealing with the current situation in our neighbourhoods, our province, across the country and around the globe. As the new year turned and 2020 arrived I set my personal intention for the

Western Canada's Articulation Textile Group considers the vast and diverse landscape that is Canada, with Provinces . Mounted at The Fish Creek Library in Calgary by members: Donna Clement and Wendy Klotz, the show will hang through the month of March, 2020. The panels on view are reflections on the idea of place: the spaces we inhabit, have experienced or aspire to visit. Constructed in provincial pairs each panel measures, 25" x 80". A single representative of each partnership hangs in this exhibit. The panels aim to explore the Canadian landscape tradition, to illustrate the colours of our nation and to celebrate that which distinguishes, yet also unites us as Canadians. Working individually Articulation members used hand and machine stitching, quilted layers, collage, appliqué, batik, painting, dye sublimation and photography. The diverse creative choices made unite in format to describe in textiles, our Canada. This project was the first Articulation proj