Joan Morris speaking at the 2014 Maiwa Textile Symposium Joan Morris closed out the 2014 lecture series with her talk - Expressing Impossibility. There were two main themes. The first was that very little is actually impossible. As a personal challenge she set for herself, Joan Morris wanted...
On October 25th Charllotte Kwon presented the Orissa File - an in-depth look at the handloom and ikat traditions of Orissa (now Odisha). The talk featured photography and video vignettes of many villages. Charllotte brought out some magnificent pieces from the Maiwa Textile Collection to display the high-quality...
On October 21, Rutsuko Sakata presented her lecture "My Forest is a Garden." She introduced the audience to the small northern village of Fiskars, famed for it scissors, where she spends a little more that half of each year. Rutsuko then proceeded to talk about the inspiration for...
Gasali Adeyemo speaking at the Maiwa Textile Symposium On October 21, Gasali Adeyemo delivered his lecture "African Blues: My Life in Indigo" to a full house in the Net Loft. Gasali last delivered a lecture to the symposium audience in 2007 and it was a pleasure to reconnect...
Kyoko Ueda contemplates a question on the origin of her work after her lecture "Layers of Life." In her introduction, Kyoko explained that she turned 60 this year. "In Japan, 60 is the age people celebrate as a huge landmark year and receive presents. People often wear something...
October 14th was a considered investigation of light, shadow, nature, and the interior world of an artist as Noriko Harahira took the audience on tour of her work and creative process. Every few years Noriko develops a new approach, and through investigating her relationship with nature, create a...
The St. Bernard, "Tzou" has been recovered after the truck he was in was stolen on Thursday night. Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help. We had staff postering the city and an entire team of volunteers sweeping the area where the truck was found abandoned. In...
Thanks to the Maiwa community for your support. Someone found the truck early in the morning. The St. Bernard, Tzou, is still missing. The truck was found in the Kits area, (13th and Pine) roughly between Granville and Burrrard Streets. We are hopeful that someone will spot the...
We are asking the help of those living in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada. At 6:28 on Thursday the truck pictured above belonging to one of our staff was stolen from Chinatown in Vancouver. The St Bernard "Tzou" was in the back. We are all most...
On the last day of September, 2014, Tilleke Schwarz took the audience through a mash-up of contemporary culture and classic stitching. Everything from Beavis and Butt-head to road signs to dinosaurs to words and phrases that have amused her. Her work includes all these things as well as...
