Mending Station with Laura Grier
Sunday, November 29, 2026
1–4 PM
FREE
Join us at the Museum on November 29th for a free Mending Station workshop facilitated by Laura Grier!
Laura’s Mending Station is in relation to her own art practice, specifically printmaking, applied as a means of mending as a form of release, reflection and resistance. Laura will teach participants to carve their messages, images, or symbols into small lino blocks and these designs will be printed onto garments and repurposed cloth.
Inspired by the acts of mending, storytelling, and sh*t-talking (gossiping as a collective, informal practice of knowledge sharing), the workshop invites participants to put something onto fabric that might otherwise stay inside: an annoyance, a memory, a feeling, a boundary, a joke, a dream, or a few words they need to say. Using relief printing, participants will transform these thoughts into tactile marks on cloth.
We are thrilled to invite you in engaging with Laura’s textile practice and creative approach as they lead hands-on garment or textile mending techniques informed by their practice, in a welcoming, low-barrier learning environment focused on care, repair, and reuse
For any accessibility needs, please email Isabelle Sain (isain@textilemuseum.ca)
The Mending Station, generously funded by TD Bank Friends of the Environment, is an Indigenous-led, public-facing repair and learning hub that centres garment mending as both a creative and sustainable practice. Each session will welcome up to 15 participants and is led by an invited textile artist or designer who brings their own practice, knowledge, and approach to repair into the space. This public program is an extension of the Museum’s exhibition: Always in Fashion, an engaging exploration of Indigenous design languages and their transformative impacts on the fashion landscape.
Facilitator Bio:
Laura Grier is a Sahtu Délı̨nę First Nations artist and printmaker, born in Somba ké (Yellowknife), and based out of Alberta. Through the use of traditional print mediums, they instrumentalize the power of the handmade to reflect Indigeneity, language, relational ontologies, and lived experiences of urban displacement and inherent Dene spirituality. Laura’s work is inspired by the dynamism of Indigenous art practices and uses printmaking as a tool for resistance, refusal, and reflexivity. They hold a BFA from NSCADU (K’jipuktuk) and an MFA from OCAD University (Tkaronto) and is a PhD student at York University. They have had work exhibited at The Art Gallery of Guelph, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Xpace Cultural Center, Colllision Gallery, Harcourt House, DC3 Art Projects, SNAP Gallery, and ArtsPlace. Laura received grants and awards for their work, including an Indigenous project grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Toronto Arts Council.
This program was generously funded by TD Canada.
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