We are pleased to announce that the Studio H Canada International Artist Residency is now accepting applications. This unique residency is custom-designed to meet your individual needs and goals in a safe and supportive environment. Artists are invited to apply now for art residencies of any duration in this idyllic setting on Vancouver Island in…
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Artists and climate change
For those among you interested in climate change and the North specifically, this site and project was brought to my attention by Chantal Bilodeau, its creator. Chantal is a playwright and is the artistic director of The Arctic Cycle , Founder, Artists & Climate Change, Co-founder, Climate Change Theatre Action , Curator, Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Check out Chantal’s…
Stringing Together Purpose and People
I remember playing Cats Cradle as a kid in New Jersey. I never really thought about where the game came from. Recently however, while talking with anthropological archeologist Michele Hayeur Smith, I learned a bit about Inuit culture and life in the Circumpolar Region that led me to do further research and to the…
Traditional and Contemporary Textile Art in Northern Iceland
A trip to visit Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið / Textile Museum in Blönduós, north Iceland.
The Amauti as a Symbol of Protection
Cocoon, Pen and Ink, Metallic Acrylic Paint and Laundry Lint, 2017 During my recent involvement with the Northern Women Arts Collaborative, I have become interested in learning about Inuit culture. The Amauti is the first thing that grabbed my attention. The design of the Amauti is beautifully symbolic of motherhood at its most basic level of nurturing and protecting. The Amauti,…
The Warp-Weighted Loom- Book review
Audur Hildur Hákonardóttir A thank you note read at the book opening event in Bergen City library December 16th 2016. “The key to understanding why words and images from spinning and weaving are still in use even after we have entered the forth dimension world and the digital age, when the majority of Western women…
Reproducing a vararfeldur
By Marled Mader Varar- or Röggvarfeldur My project for this time staying ast the Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland is making a vararfeldur. The first to reproduce a real vararfeldur were Hildur (hope to meet you sometimes somewhere in real), who is part of this wonderful Northern-Women-Project, Elizabeth from Shetlands and Marta from Norway. They wrote…
The Woman Dressed in Blue: a Textile Find from the 10th c. Icelandic grave and its reconstruction. By Marianne, Guckelsberger and Marled Mader.
Based on The Lady in Blue-Bláklædda Konan, National Museum of Iceland Project The Lady in Blue-Bláklædda Konan: the textiles. National Museum of Iceland.
Northern Women Arts Collaborative 