Articulation Textile Group

I am a 20-year veteran YMCA swimmer who was greeted at the pond this morning with a question. Are you taking any time off over the break to rest? It got me thinking... do I ever really take a moment to take in the enormity of what the past year really was? Do we give ourselves an opportunity to reflect, to even acknowledge all that has taken place? Amanda Onchulenko, 'Reflection,' Connected Heritage , New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli MB If you're like me, you are too busy: thinking, planning and doing, figuring out, keeping up or imagining what is next, but my friend made a very good point. To honour my friend's query in this brief season that hangs between Christmas and New Years, I will take this opportunity for a contemplative review of what we as Articulation Textile Group were up to during 2019. Leann Clifford, 'Ripple and Frond,' Forest and Sea and the Place Between , Portals Gallery, Duncan BC Its time to remind ourselves what evolved, what...

West Coast Vancouver Island sunset Articulation Textile group is on the exhibition trail once again. This time we are headed to Portals Gallery, one of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council's galleries.  Find the Portals Gallery in the Island Savings Centre, 2687 James Street, Duncan BC (250) 746 1633 The gallery is open Monday to Friday 11am- 5pm, Saturday noon- 3pm. It is closed on Sundays and holidays. Articulation’s exhibition 'Forest and Sea and the Place Between' opens on Tuesday, March 27th at 11am  and closes April 18th at 5pm, 2019. An artist reception will be held Saturday, April 13th from 3-5pm with three of the artists in attendance giving talks. We hope you will join us.   Donna Clement leads an artist tour during the 'WAR: A Personal Response' exhibition in Sidney Museum. Our days spent searching shorelines for inspiration are long behind us and the revelations we have come to personally have evolved into art expressed in textile...

(L) Leann Clifford, Vickie Newington, Ingrid Lincoln, Donna Clement, Lesley Turner at the Canadian Quilters' Association biennial conference. View of 2 of the 6 booths Articulation filled with several bodies of work. 2 more booths of work. Wendy Klotz, Rain Forest, 'Old Growth', 'Clear Cut', 'Rebirth', each 24" x 30"

ARTICULATION is one of the guest artists invited to show at the Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) conference being held at the Telus Convention Centre in downtown Calgary from April 28th through May 1st. We have over 200 feet of exhibition space that we are filling with the theme of Canadian landscapes. Our artist statement reads: “Ess-scape” – A Flight From Confinement Shedding the threaded bonds of traditional textile art, Articulation presents a collection of work by female artists who have studied issues and landscapes of Western Canadian mountain, rain forest, and urban regions. They break new ground while portraying the essence of the history, culture, and surroundings that the Rockies inspire. The BC rain forest communicates its own unique story while the architecture from man-made structures provides a different frame of reference for study and outlook. The suffix for ‘female’ is ‘-ess’ and by using it as a prefix, Articulation sets the tone for an exhibit that cel...

One day Donna, Lesley and Ingrid did a side trip to Shutz Falls, just west of Duncan. where we sat in the forest, amidst the greenery, and sketched... And another day was a trip to see the old-growth Douglas Fir forest in "Cathedral Grove" in the MacMillan Provincial Park along the Pacific Rim Highway heading west towards Tofino with Donna, Lesley and ReBecca... where we discovered fungi of many different types. But first we drove further north and pulled in off the highway and again wandered deep into the forest to sit and sketch. And then back to wander through the posted informational signs in Cathedral Grove .