November...Big Finish for 2010!

I thought I was going to fall into a post-show slump after the opening in Almonte, but it seems that plans have been devised to keep me from getting glum. Good plan :) Here it goes:

 

I will present an Artist Talk on my TEXT-ing installation on Saturday, November 13 at 2:00pm at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum at 3 Rosamond St. E, Almonte, ON www.mvtm.ca 

Museum Hours: 

Tuesday through Saturday

10:00am to 4:00pm

Admission $5.00

Clothing reconstruction workshop with artist Karina Bergmans

Saturday 20 November 2010 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm

At the Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Avenue (in English with bilingual staff)

Transform Your Uniform!

How did people dress in the past? The artworks in the exhibition In Vogue can help answer that question! After discovering clothing from the 1900s to the 1970s, textile artist Karina Bergmans will show you ways to make something unique out of an ordinary t-shirt.

For ages 8 and up! $15 adults/ $8 children and students. Please inquire about discounts for members and siblings.

Information and registration: 613-233-8699, ext. 243,  registration@ottawaartgallery.ca

The Ottawa Art Gallery Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 Canada

www.ottawaartgallery.ca 

http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/exhibits/2010/invogue/index-en.php

I'll have my Kbergmans.com clothing, all one-of-a-kind hoodies, shrugs, sweaters, skirts, bums warmers, and Fuzzy Gaiters... all you need to keep you warm and cute all winter !

ONE + ONLY Sandy Hill Holiday Craft Show

Saturday November 21, 2010 10am to 4pm

Sandy Hill Community Centre

250 Somerset Street East K1N 6V6

Ottawa, ON

http://sandyhillsoneandonly.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104007176334878

I can't wait for the 2010 Idle Hands. More warm winter wear to be fetched from the KBergmans.com clothing line.

Sunday November 28, 2010

10am - 5pm

at Patrick Gordon Framing 

160 Elm St., Ottawa, ON

cash only / 2$ entry

www.patrickgordonframing.ca

http://www.idlehandscraftsale.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001553477931

If you can't wait for the craft shows, you can always head over the Adorit Boutique at 159 York Street in Ottawa to get your hands on some lovely, cozy Kbergmans.com clothing.

http://www.adorit.ca/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ottawa-ON/Adorit-Boutique/102893429777886

Or shop on-line at www.Kbergmans.com

Hourrah for 2010!

Text-ing et al opens today at MVTM in Almonte

The show opens today! It has been a challenging and exciting process to have imagined this space for so long while working in my studio, and to finally install last week. Each piece found its place without too much deliberation. Hope you can make it to the opening tonight, if not, the show runs until January 23rd, 2011. Or watch the web cam during gallery hours (Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm) to see if anyone is making txt msgs:

http://www.stickam.com/kbergmans

Directions to the gallery are below.

There's a bit of construction going on in Almonte, here are directions to the gallery from Ottawa:

If you are heading from Ottawa

-take the 417 west to exit 155 for March Rd/Regional Rd 49 Almonte

-Turn left onto March Rd/Regional Rd 49 for 10 or so km

-At the roundabout, continue straight onto Ottawa St/County Road 49

-At the Detour sign/ traffic light turn left (street sign says Martin St S),

-follow the curve of the road and you will be on Queen St

-continue on Queen Street over a bridge and train track

-after the train tracks, at the traffic light, turn right on to Mill St, Almonte’s downtown street

-follow Mill Street to the stop sign and turn right on to Almonte Street (this is where there is a big ‘Local Traffic Only’ sign, go though it.

-make a first left onto Mary street

-at the end of the street is the Textile Museum, park anywhere along Mary or turn right onto Rosamond

preparations II

Here's another photo of my studio, in-progress.  Mandarin is complete, and you can see the pattern for Hindi on the table.  It is a complex task to make Hindi out of sari fabric. It is a very beautiful language, lots of loops and curves. I am reinforcing the sari material with layers of interfacing and muslin, hanging pre-cutting, on the right of the photo. Fingers crossed that it will turn out all right :)  !!

preparations

preparations are underway for my show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (in Almonte,ON) coming up in October... here's a little sneak peak at a new work for the show: this is half of the word 'Mandarin' in Mandarin,  the most spoken language in the world (only 1151 million people, according to this site). Certainly, Mandarin deserves its own pillow.

 

Article in FiberArts Magazine!

On newstands now! The September/October Issue of FiberArts Magazine is a special one... 

 
 

You will find an article on my Text-ing project, written by Jenny McMaster. The article reviews my Text-ing project and its upcoming exhibition at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte, Ontario set to open Ocotober 21, 2010.

 

As a contributor, Jenny McMaster gets her own picture bubble! CUTE!

 

It only took my partner Jason half a second to recognize himself as the masked man in the WARM photo and was very happy to be in print. He's always patient for me to proliferate my art, even if it means going for a walk on a very snow stormy day.

 

Now get down to your local magazine store or Chapters and snap up a copy! ENJOY!

 THANK YOU FIBERARTS!!!

Art In Strathcona Park

I'll have my super KBergmans.com Clothing booth at Art in Strathcona Park on Saturday from 10-5.  Its the beautiful park in Sandy Hill near the river.  Lots of art to enjoy and, in my case, try on! See you there!

and ....pssst....more on this in a future post...try to get your hands on a copy of the September/October issue of FiberArts Magazine and turn to page 32.  

TWO shows this WEEKEND!

I'll have a booth with my Kbergmans.com Clothing Line at Urban Art in Minto Park on Saturday. Its the pretty park just off Elgin at Gilmour.  AND on Sunday I'll have a stall at the Byward Market on Williams Street. I thought since I'll have the car packed with tent, supplies and clothes, whey not do two shows in one weekend and keep busy! Each show is from 10am to 5pm.

Thanks Miss E for for being my super awesome Etsy model for my new designs! You're always my muse!

   

Byward Market: I'll have a booth down the street to the right-------------->

Summer Good TImes 
 
 

KBergmans.com Clothing at Capital Craft Market

I’ll be at Capital Craft Market with my KBergmans.com clothing line on July 1 and 2 from 10-5.

If you’re heading downtown to sing the anthem and hug the Queen, then pop into the market building on the 2nd floor and do a little shopping.  I have lovely, liveable, shirts, skirts, shrugs and more. All handmade, one-of-a-kind and made with new and reclaimed fabric.  Admission is free and more info available at www.capitalcraftmarket.com

KBergmans.com clothing is now available at Adorit at 159 York Street in the market and at KBergmans.com

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious at Stride Gallery +15 window space

TEXT-ING has been shipped to Stride Gallery +15 Window Space!  The show runs from June 1-July 30 so if you find yourself in Calgary this summer, head over to the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts and gaze upon this:

I took that photo in my studio to make sure the whole word would fit on the shelves...(it does!)  and also to make sure I didn't have any pillow 'typos'! If you can't quite recall all the words to the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song, here's the goodness of a YouTube moment. You will not be able to get the undiddle-diddles out of your head.  

I was not able to utilize that awesome crate I made (see previous post) because there was a weight restriction with the shipper that I used.  So I had to divi everything up into 4 smaller boxes, which worked well too.  It was a frenzied box making session on shipping day, but it turned out rather well in the end. Nothing like using some colourful duct tape to pretty up some boxes :)  ...And I'm certain that crate will come in handy in the future.

 

My First Coffin...er...Crate!

I am shipping a project out to Calgary's Stride Gallery +15 Window Space  next week, so I had to make my very first shipping crate, which may also be all I need for a casket in 'The End'.  Peter Shmelzer helped me make the crate.  A woodworker is a handy person to know.  The project is a very long word made from letter pillows and will be installed on the cute little crown moulding shelves from the Corridor Gallery installation. (Alisdair McRae was the curator for that show and helped me make the shelves, another woodworker, Hourrah! Nothing like playing with a rented compound mitre saw :).  The +15 Window Space is situated in the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, and I'll just say that this word will make you want to sing a little song.  The exhibition will run from June 1 to July 31, so if you're in Calgary, go take a look!

  

Skirts and Shirts by KBergmans at Artspark May 9

I'm getting ready with Skirts and Shirts for Hintonburg's ArtsPark this coming Sunday May 9 (bring Mom, its Mother's Day!) from 10-4. All KBergmans.com clothes are handmade, and one-of-a-kind.  I don't use patterns, and just cut on a dress form and sew .  Makes for very easy wearing, comfortable and unique fashions. Made from a mix of new knits and jersey fabric, previously loved clothing, and material from my art endeavours, KBergmans.com clothing is machine washable and very enjoyable.  Come out to ArtsPark, rain or shine to get a piece of the love! more details on  the website for Hintonburg arts district. (pssst...cash only!)

 

 

 

Video of Artist Talk at Corridor Gallery

Jason documented my artist talk on saturday at the Corridor Gallery.  It went really well, and it was nice to see the video after to get an idea of my presentation skills.  The audio and quality of the video were not the best, plus it was 33 minutes, so no one would want to watch a talk that long on youtube.  But Jason mastered up a funny little sped-up version with a nice aged effect and cute charlie chaplin music.  You will see I talk with my hands A LOT!  Thanks J!

Artist Talks on Saturday April 3

I'll be doing an artist talk about my TEXT-ING project, and its current exhibition entitled 26 Letters and Then There Were None, a duo-show with Julie Tucker. The talks will start at 2:00pm at the Corridor Gallery at Crichton Cultural Community Centre, 200 Crichton Street, 2nd Floor (Please use Avon Lane entrance at rear).

Here are some photos from the show and from last Friday's opening.

I have used the pangram (a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet): The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over A Lazy Dog. Who knew I had enough letters to write a sentence?!!

 

The opposite wall with more letter exploration: Flooring, polymer clay, velcro letters, magnetic letters and a chalk board.

 
 The "corridor" of the Corridor Gallery.  In the foreground, Julie Tucker's Abacus Piece.  

Trying to reach out and touch LAZY

 

My mum, me and pal Dipna

My Mum and her friend GB. It was my mum's first time to one of my openings: pretty special! Happy Happy!

 

Two Shows for March 2010 in Minden and Ottawa

Around Frayed Edges exhibition

Curated by Laurie Carmount

March 18—May 29, 2010

Please join us for the opening reception at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery March 19 at 4pm

...a narration spun through work that pushes the limits as to what an artist can do with fibre today. Similar to social misfits that sit on the outskirts of society, like mad inventors experimenting, and geniuses with universal knowledge, this exhibition encourages the far reaches of thought and imagination. Does society hang by a thread, will the Fates cut the cord, oh what a tangled web we weave…here is an opportunity to see work that follows a string into a world on the periphery.

Artists: Marianne Kyryluk, Carl Stewart, Robin Ripley, Jean Farrell, Heidi Hudspith, David R. Harper, Jill Odegaard, Laura Trach, Liz Menard, Nadine Papp, Wendy O'Brien, Johanna Nousiainen, Fay Wilkinson, Audrey MacLean, Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Barbara Wisnoski, Erika DeFreitas, Carmella Karijo Rother, Suzen Green, Sandi Luck, Cynthia Jackson, Amanda McCavour, Ilona Staples, Karen Goetzinger, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, Karina Bergmans, Jane Tingley

Agnes Jamieson Gallery

176 Bobcaygeon Road

Minden Ontario K0M 2K0

gallery@mindenhills.ca

705-286-3763

http://www.mindenculturalcentre.com/gallery_programming.php

My Kidney's will be shown in Around Frayed Edges:

 

26 Letters And Then There Were None

March 25 to April 25, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 6:30 – 9:00 PM
Artist Presentations: Saturday, April 3 at 2:00 PM 

Gallery Hours:

Wed - Fri 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sat – Sun 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

The Corridor Gallery proudly presents 26 Letters And Then There Were None, an exhibition featuring Karina Bergmans and Julie Tucker at Crichton Cultural Community Centre, 200 Crichton Street, 2^nd Floor, Ottawa. (Please use Avon Lane entrance at rear.)

Karina Bergmans and Julie Tucker present a multimedia exhibition that plays with language, learning and the institutional setting where we receive instruction. The artists incorporate playful notions of the alphabet, nursery rhymes and arithmetic with architectural facets, historical fragments and the eerie lure of our own connection to the past through memory and ghosts. Implicitly raising questions around the objects and the site in which they are located, there are no reassuring answers. While early childhood education gives us the tools to process our experiences, we are left to our own devices to decide how to use them.

This show is the second of two juried exhibitions that will be presented by the Corridor Gallery this season. The Gallery is operated by the Crichton Cultural Community Centre and its mission is to provide opportunities to emerging professional artists living and working in the region. 

Contact:

Susan Ashbrook 

Director of Programming
Crichton Cultural Community Centre
613-745-2742

Join the Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=398032151662

   

Tania's Willow

I found my friend Tania's beautiful children's book Willow's Whispers at my local ottawa chapters.  I had to find a corner of the store and read it immediately.  Tania did the illustrations and a Lana Button wrote the text.  It is a really lovely story and Tania's illustration are really adorable.  (I especially like Willow's socks, and change of wardrobe in the second half, and the Teacher is very teacher-ish)

 

Tania always puts in a sweet little kitty (and this one was in quite a few 'scenes'!)

 

and in a bold move, I added some books to the *New and Hot* for 3-5 yr olds table (at the back of the table), only to discover that there was already a great big pile on the table already! Congratulations Tania!!!

 

February is for Thinking

I'm hoping my new Thinking Caps will help with me generate some new ideas this month.

 

Ontario Crafts Council Body + Object Exhibition

I had a great time at the opening of the Ontario Crafts Council Body + Object exhibition last week.  It was a busy night.  

 

The gallery looked great

 

I love these beautiful shoes by Marina Dempster

 

And my Colon Carry All and H1N1 Handbag looked pretty sweet too

I was thrilled to be a such a beautiful show, with such talented artists.  and many thanks to the curator Janna Hiemstra for organizing and executing the exhibition.

xoxox

Two Shows for January 2010 in Montreal and Toronto

Pleins Les Bras tours to Galerie Les Trois C at the Centre Culturel Henri Lemieux from January 8-24, 2010 with a vernissage on January 13 at 7:00pm.  The gallery is located at  7644 rue Edouard, La Salle (QC).  Directions to the gallery located here

The Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles  "presents bracelets, armlets, cuffs and more objects that embellish the arm. Some of the artworks are jewels that decorate originally an arm, others constitute a comfortable, unique and rebel sleeve. The exposed artworks are produced through various techniques of textile construction."

Centre Henri Lemieux, Galerie Les Trois

Centre Textiles Contemporain de Montreal

My sleeve designs for the exhibition below:

 

The Colon Carry All and the H1N1 Handbag will be exhibited in a group show entitled  Body + Object Exhibition at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery at 990 Queen St in Toronto.  The show runs from January 5th to the 31, with a vernissage on January 20th from 5:30 - 8:30.  The Council is a participant in the Toronto International Design Festival and examines "the relationship between the body and the many forms in which it can ornament, present and represent itself."

 
 

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays Everyone! Relax, eat, enjoy, stay warm and see you in 2010!

  

Gaiters in the Shop!

I finally got to putting the gaiters in the Etsy Shop.  Look super cute and stay warm all winter! These ones are my favorite right now.  So Fuzzy!