The third in this year’s Art of Craft Lecture Series is with Jane Kidd, Fibre Artist, 2016 Canada Council of the Arts Bronfman Award winner.
Date/Time: May 16 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Public LibraryCost: Free
Her beautiful, technically demanding and conceptually rich tapestries provoke profound questions about handcraft, disciplinary knowledge and the importance of bringing historical practices into the contemporary art arena for critical discussion and debate. She has exhibited in numerous solo and over fifty group shows across Canada, the United States, Japan, Poland, Hungary and Australia. Her work is to be found in private and public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Alberta Art Foundation, and The Canadian Museum of Civilization. She has produced several large commissions for public buildings in Canada. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 2001 and was awarded the Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence in 2008.
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