Textile Artist's Book
June 21, June 29, July 5
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructors: Olivia Mae Sinclair + Steph Cloutier
Materials Fee:
Students: 6
Meeting once a week over three weeks, students will explore storytelling to create their own artists' book, making use of their personal materials to create screen prints and explore a range of hand stitching techniques. An artists' book allows for the interpretation of personal histories through sculpture and form, as well as through image and mark-making.
It is recommended that students have some experience with screen printing and sewing/stitching, although it is not necessary.
Day One:
A review of both instructors' work and other books and textile artists for inspiration before students design and shoot their screens for printing. Physical examples of how materials can be used to create positives for screen printing will be provided. Students will have time to experiment, start printing, and try layering and playing with printing. Students will also see how both instructors use mark-making to inspire and generate ideas.
Day Two:
The second day will be dedicated to experimentation in printing. Participants will be encouraged to have artwork prepared to shoot. Emphasis in the studio will be on printing new samples, reflecting, and adding to those images to build a textile narrative. Here, students are expected to have a few designs they want to try to achieve.
Day Three:
The final day will be used to stitch and construct using sewing machines or hand sewing.
June 21, June 29, July 5
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructors: Olivia Mae Sinclair + Steph Cloutier
Materials Fee:
Students: 6
Meeting once a week over three weeks, students will explore storytelling to create their own artists' book, making use of their personal materials to create screen prints and explore a range of hand stitching techniques. An artists' book allows for the interpretation of personal histories through sculpture and form, as well as through image and mark-making.
It is recommended that students have some experience with screen printing and sewing/stitching, although it is not necessary.
Day One:
A review of both instructors' work and other books and textile artists for inspiration before students design and shoot their screens for printing. Physical examples of how materials can be used to create positives for screen printing will be provided. Students will have time to experiment, start printing, and try layering and playing with printing. Students will also see how both instructors use mark-making to inspire and generate ideas.
Day Two:
The second day will be dedicated to experimentation in printing. Participants will be encouraged to have artwork prepared to shoot. Emphasis in the studio will be on printing new samples, reflecting, and adding to those images to build a textile narrative. Here, students are expected to have a few designs they want to try to achieve.
Day Three:
The final day will be used to stitch and construct using sewing machines or hand sewing.
June 21, June 29, July 5
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructors: Olivia Mae Sinclair + Steph Cloutier
Materials Fee:
Students: 6
Meeting once a week over three weeks, students will explore storytelling to create their own artists' book, making use of their personal materials to create screen prints and explore a range of hand stitching techniques. An artists' book allows for the interpretation of personal histories through sculpture and form, as well as through image and mark-making.
It is recommended that students have some experience with screen printing and sewing/stitching, although it is not necessary.
Day One:
A review of both instructors' work and other books and textile artists for inspiration before students design and shoot their screens for printing. Physical examples of how materials can be used to create positives for screen printing will be provided. Students will have time to experiment, start printing, and try layering and playing with printing. Students will also see how both instructors use mark-making to inspire and generate ideas.
Day Two:
The second day will be dedicated to experimentation in printing. Participants will be encouraged to have artwork prepared to shoot. Emphasis in the studio will be on printing new samples, reflecting, and adding to those images to build a textile narrative. Here, students are expected to have a few designs they want to try to achieve.
Day Three:
The final day will be used to stitch and construct using sewing machines or hand sewing.
Olivia Mae Sinclair is a textile-book artist. Her intuitive and trauma-based practice is guided by sloppy craft and imperfection. She is addicted to infatuation and Redbull. She is a maker of books, love, and other grotesque things. She has recently graduated from OCAD University's Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media, and Design program. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Craft and Design at Sheridan College. Olivia is a current Artist in Residence at Harbourfront Centre. Typically, books made from fabric are intended for children and infants. Olivia Mae Sinclair’s books, however, are made for lovers, survivors, artists, her, him, them, and me.
Steph Cloutier is a Toronto-based francophone artist working in textiles, paper, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores themes of memory, reciprocity, and repair, utilizing hand embroidery, mending, natural dyes, and papermaking to create 2D and 3D artworks. Her current body of work focuses on her fascination with urbanity, nature, and our existence within those spaces. She received her BFA with Distinction in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University and has exhibited her work widely. She has been awarded residencies in Toronto, Canada, and Naples, Italy. She is currently an artist-in-residence (Textiles) in the Craft & Design program at Harbourfront Centre.