Online Workshop: Embroidery Sewing Circle with Catherine Heard and Shiemara Hogarth

Free

Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis is a work-in-progress by Windsor artist, Catherine HeardThe artist invites the public to contribute an embroidered motif to a large-scale artwork exploring social justice issuesAs the project develops, new themes, images, and patterns will be added: the public is invited to make suggestionsA full description of the project can be viewed at emperorofatlantis.com This link will direct you to Catherine Heard’s website. Please be advised that some content may be triggering: images, stitched in red thread, include residential schools, violence, and war.

On Sunday May 9, Heard and textile artist Shiemara Hogarth lead an online sewing circle to embroider patches for Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis, and participants were encouraged to engage in dialogue and idea exchange. 

This program is the second of two programs featuring Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis and is in partnership between the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Niagara Artist Centre, and the Textile Museum of Canada. On Sunday April 11, 2021, 2–3 pm, the Art Gallery of Windsor hosted an online conversation between Hogarth and Heard on how themes of political activism, collaboration, and community are manifested in Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis 

This program is a part of the Textile Museum of Canada’s Social Being 

Type: Program

Date: May 9, 2021, 2pm - 4pm

Catherine Heard’s textile work is simultaneously attractive and repulsive, as it delves into primal anxieties about the body. Frequently, she uses historical craft techniques as foils for abject subject matter.Her work has been exhibited in France, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, and the US. It is in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Kamloops, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Catherine Heard is a professor at the University of Windsor and is represented by Birch Contemporary Gallery in Toronto.

Shiemara Hogarthis a textile artist and designer with a background in humanities research, based between Brampton and Calgary. Her textile collections explore Jamaican culture and the self, and the inherent capabilities of textiles as a storytelling medium. Her practice utilizes weaving, screenprinting, digital printing, felting, embroidery, and more recently, explorations in 3D printing. Shiemara Hogarth graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2019 with a BDes in Material Art and Design: Textiles and is currently pursuing her MFA in Craft Media at the Alberta University of the Arts.

The Niagara Artists Centre(NAC) is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in Canada, founded in 1969 as a collective of working artists. NAC believes that the arts and critical dialogue on the arts are integral to a healthy community. NAC is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara.

The Art Gallery of Windsor(AGW) is a non-profit public art gallery focused on preserving and presenting the visual arts of Canada. Since 1943, the gallery has served the southwestern Ontario region and the international border community of Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan, USA. The AGW serves as a catalyst for and stimulator of a meaningful dialogue between artists, the community, and visitors.

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