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We are delighted to present a range of special events for the Summit:
We have provided details where currently available, and will add more details and descriptions in the coming weeks. Sunday June 8Washi
Bazaar Visitors from around the world, and local artists and craftspeople will offer their works for sale at a Washi Bazaar. From jewellery to funereal urns, to beautiful books, cards, boxes and trays, to prints and other works of fine art, the message that washi is beautiful, practical and worth preserving will be loud and clear. Papermakers in attendance! Washiwear Fashion Show 100% washi hits the runway! Monday June 9Demonstration:
Japanese Papermaking with guest
Japanese papermakers Our three guest Japanese papermakers - Shinji Hayashi from Kurotani, Hiroshi Tamura from Kochi and Hiroaki Imai from Niigata - will demonstrate their skills with play-by-play explanation by Paul Denhoed, a Canadian artist who has lived in Japan researching papermaking techniques for six years. For reservations (required) contact www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php, email rsvp@jftor.org or call 416.966.1600 x400. Please include your full name, contact information, event name and total number of guests in your reservation. Tuesday June 10Studio visit This large showroom of prints, drawings and sculpture from Cape Dorset ships the art from downtown Toronto to galleries around the world. Dorset Fine Arts was established in Toronto in 1978 as the wholesale marketing division of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. The Co-operative is in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, and it is unique among the Arctic Co-operatives for its sustained focus on the arts and artists of the community. The Annual Graphics Collection from Cape Dorset has been released since 1959, and the Co-operative also represents many acclaimed sculptors. Though it is normally closed to the public, today you can view this historic collection through the eyes of Leslie Boyd Ryan and her husband Terry who was one of the founders of the Co-op. What a wonderful way to look also at the last 50 years of Japanese paper exported to the west. Space is limited for this event. To register, please phone The Japanese Paper Place at 416-538-9669 with name and contact information. Wahon
Seminar with Jack Howard,
chief librarian A rare look at the old treasures printed and bound with washi from the collections of ROM's Far Eastern Library. An added treat: Japanese papermakers will be showing their own special treasures from home (Japan). Space is limited for this seminar. To register, please phone The Japanese Paper Place at 416-538-9669 with name, contact information, and payment information (VISA or MasterCard). Demonstration: Inuit Printmaking Inuit artist/printmaker Kavavaow Mannomee will demonstrate the unique medium practised at Cape Dorset since the 1950's. Combining relief images printed from carved stone and stencil images using Japanese "bokashi" shading on washi, these wonderful prints sadly have fewer and fewer artists creating them as years go by. Jimmy Manning, manager of the Cape Dorset Artists' Co-op will accompany Kavavaow to answer questions about this important genre in Canadian art. Washi
Star Talk with Tanja
Softic Tanja Softic is a formidable printmaker, faculty member at the University of Richmond, first prize winner of the Kochi Triennial and a long-time user of washi in her multi-faceted print and drawing works. We are delighted to have her talk as part of our "Washi Star" series at The Japanese Paper Place. "What
IS it About Washi?" salon discussion
for artists Please pre-register by email to info@lennoxcontemorary.com with your name and email address. Wednesday June 11Demonstration
& Lecture: Japanese Papermaking with
Paul Denhoed and guest Japanese papermakers Our three guest Japanese papermakers - Shinji Hayashi from Kurotani, Hiroshi Tamura from Kochi and Hiroaki Imai from Niigata - will demonstrate their skills with play-by-play explanation by Paul Denhoed, a Canadian artist who has lived in Japan researching papermaking techniques for six years. Paul will also give his lecture, "Immersion and Education: My Time in the Washi Making 'Villages' of Japan." Light refreshments and sale of washi and washi art at the A.K. Collings Gallery will follow the presentation. Please register through A.K. Collings Gallery by email or by phone at 905.885.2001. Lecture:
Shifu - Woven Washi Thread with
Hiroko Karuno Very special slide lecture based on Hiroko-san's long history studying the craft of spinning strips of washi and then weaving them. Pay at the door; $10 for Summit out-of-town attendees and Textile Museum members, or $12 for everyone else. Ontario
Craft Council Auction of
washi collaborations From June 7 to 11, the Ontario Crafts Council will hold an intriguing fundraiser. A dozen talented craftspeople will have created works with washi and other materials on June 7 to 8 that you can glimpse through papered "peep-hole" windows in the OCC gallery at 990 Queen Street West during 2 days of the Summit. The works will be unveiled, on view for 2 days and auctioned off at this party-fundraiser for the OCC. Sponsored by The Paper Place Thursday June 12Demonstration: Inuit Printmaking Inuit artist/printmaker Kavavaow Mannomee will demonstrate the unique medium practised at Cape Dorset since the 1950's. Combining relief images printed from carved stone and stencil images using Japanese "bokashi" shading on washi, these wonderful prints sadly have fewer and fewer artists creating them as years go by. Jimmy Manning, manager of the Cape Dorset Artists' Co-op will accompany Kavavaow to answer questions about this important genre in Canadian art. Demonstration:
Shifu with
Hiroko Karuno Demonstration by textile artist Hiroko Karuno of the remarkable techniques by which strips of washi are transformed into thread and then woven into cloth. Sponsored by Romni Wools Lecture: "Immersion
and Education: My Time in the Washi
'Villages' of Japan" with
Paul Denhoed In his visits to many papermaking studios in Japan over the last five years, Paul Denhoed has learned many things. Key to his discoveries has been how dependent the quality of washi is on nature's gifts and on man's careful handling of those gifts. In his illustrated talk, he will give us a glimpse of what daily life is like in a papermaking studio and discuss how even slight variations in the many faceted process can alter the characteristics of the paper. Great washi, such as those you'll see in the artwork this week, does not come easily. For reservations (required) contact www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php, email rsvp@jftor.org or call 416.966.1600 x400. Please include your full name, contact information, event name and total number of guests in your reservation. Lecture:
"From Kyoto to London: Chiyogami
takes the U.K. by Storm" with
Rob Shepherd (UK) Rob Shepherd, author, bookbinder and owner of Shepherds Bookbinding and Falkiners Fine Papers in London UK. A look at the history of decorative papers in Western bookbinding and the renaissance in recent years inspired by the availability of chiyogami and katazome-shi. In his words: "Western Bookbinding has used decorative papers as endpapers and covering materials for over five hundred years. From the earliest days of printing, books were often bound in paper wrappers that were embossed with colourful and decorative imagery. This tradition carried on into the nineteenth century with the use of marbled papers and printed pattern papers. "The twentieth century saw a decline in the Western hemisphere of traditional pattern papers. Hand-binderies were replaced with mechanised binding methods and it became increasingly difficult to find good quality decorative papers. "Having had the privilege of visiting Japan and seeing how these papers are made, I am very conscious of the bond between our two craft traditions. We are separated by a half a world but the craft of making beautiful paper is part of a universal language that we all can share. For reservations (required) contact www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php, email rsvp@jftor.org or call 416.966.1600 x400. Please include your full name, contact information, event name and total number of guests in your reservation. Friday June 13Lecture:
Paper Dyeing in Japan with
Tatiana Ginsberg For most of us, the words "Japanese paper" conjure images of beautiful, off-white kozo sheets, yet the Japanese also have a tradition of richly colored papers. Many of the oldest extant papers in Japan are dyed – the earliest surviving examples of Japanese calligraphy date from 614-15 on kozo paper dyed yellow with kihada bark – and colored papers continued to be used for activities such as writing love letters, poems and in conducting affairs of state. We are grateful that Tatiana is taking this time from her active art and teaching career in Santa Barbara CA to come to the Summit and pass on her valuable experience from her time learning this art in Japan. Space is limited for this seminar. To register, please phone The Japanese Paper Place at 416-538-9669 with name, contact information, and payment information (VISA or MasterCard). Saturday June 14Demonstration: Inuit Printmaking Inuit artist/printmaker Kavavaow Mannomee will demonstrate the unique medium practised at Cape Dorset since the 1950's. Combining relief images printed from carved stone and stencil images using Japanese "bokashi" shading on washi, these wonderful prints sadly have fewer and fewer artists creating them as years go by. Jimmy Manning, manager of the Cape Dorset Artists' Co-op will accompany Kavavaow to answer questions about this important genre in Canadian art. Demonstration: Inuit Printmaking Inuit artist/printmaker Kavavaow Mannomee will demonstrate the unique medium practised at Cape Dorset since the 1950's. Combining relief images printed from carved stone and stencil images using Japanese "bokashi" shading on washi, these wonderful prints sadly have fewer and fewer artists creating them as years go by. Jimmy Manning, manager of the Cape Dorset Artists' Co-op will accompany Kavavaow to answer questions about this important genre in Canadian art. Grand
Review A moderated dialogue between Japanese papermakers, artists, and gallery curators about their responses to the week will focus on what new directions they are inspired to explore as a result. This will be followed by a reception for sponsors and participants to give a final round of applause to the papermakers for their attending the Summit and for their unparalleled papers. For reservations (required) contact www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php, email rsvp@jftor.org or call 416.966.1600 x400. Please include your full name, contact information, event name and total number of guests in your reservation. Sunday June 15Performance
Art with Lorraine
Pritchard and John Ebata. She will draw, inspired by his original keyboard music.
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