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World of Threads Festival

www: whimsical, wacky, wild

2016 Exhibition: Backstage

This show, celebrating the whimsical, wacky and wild, demonstrates how fibre art can be simultaneously irreverent and serious, playful and eccentric, unique and very familiar.

Photography by Gareth Bate

Backstage

Festival installers: Jane and Melissa, installing work by Marie Bergstedt, WWW: Whimsical, Wacky and Wild exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Festival installers: Jane and Melissa, installing work by Marie Bergstedt, WWW: Whimsical, Wacky and Wild exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Curators

  • Canada: Ontario: Toronto: Gareth Bate
  • Canada: Ontario: Oakville: Dawne Rudman

Artists

  • Canada: Alberta: Red Deer: Matt Gould. Ontario: Mississauga: Madzia McCutcheon
  • France: Bretagne: Le Quillio: Lou Roy.
  • India: Hyderabad: Archana Rajguru Biswas.
  • Netherlands: Spaarndad: Mathilde Renes, Waalre: Mirjam Pet-Jacobs.
  • South Africa: Gauteng: Soweto: Lerato Motau.
  • USA: California: Albany: Suzanna Klein, San Francisco: Marie Bergstedt, Rachel Major, Myrna Tatar.
Festival installer: Melissa, installing work by Marie Bergstedt, WWW: Whimsical, Wacky and Wild exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Festival installer: Melissa, installing work by Marie Bergstedt, WWW: Whimsical, Wacky and Wild exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Gallery

  • The Corridor Galleries and open public spaces at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.

City

  • Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Dates

  • Oct. 29 - Nov. 27, 2016

Backstage