Nancy Anne McPhee set up a natural dye studio in the Roberts Street yard. She experimented with preparing an Indigo pot, dyeing greens, used dyed silk to make small trapunto wall quilts. She held an all-day open-studio workshop to show and teach all parts of the dying process to several keen crafters.
Elif worked on a number of craft projects, stitching her two weeks away. She held a log cabin quilting workshop and felting workshop, and made two small instructional zines: makin' yo yos with elif and log cabin quilting for you and me. They both are available at the Anchor Archive, at our library or through the distro.
Misleading maps manipulate public opinion in a variety of subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Reece Steinberg is creating and exhibiting a series of prints based on maps that have helped to make a Canadian oil pipeline look safe, erased Labrador, diminished the size of Africa, and committed other intentional and politically motivated inaccuracies.
Kalmia Strong and John Engelbrecht (aka Fluxion) will present Some Sort of Specificity. The aim of our residency is to be present, to work in and with the spaces and projects surrounding/within the Roberts Street Centre, and to explore our work back home (from a distance) as facilitators of a kindred arts space. We will do this through a variety of forms, using low-fi, non-precious, and participatory mediums. We would guess these things have to do with words and a spectrum of physical to non-physical structures; knowing us, these forms could include flags, paper things, and events.
Carina, the woodland elf from Byrnes Road P.E.I, will be organizing embroidery workshops/ stitch-tea parties where she will share embroidery skills and conversations with the Robert's street community. She hopes to create site-specific patchwork embroidery that reflects her experiences there and to hold a closing art show.
In residence Arti will create a weighted quilt. Through fiber arts Arti will explore the themes of disability, labour, sexuality and interdependence.