Current & Past Events
Comforter Art-Action
For Colourschool Comforter Art-Action, Lois Klassen leads a sewing circle, of sorts. Featuring colours from the colourschool palette, pre-assembled pieces of a special edition blanket, will be knotted during the session. Once complete, the blanket will then go on to a displaced person living, perhaps, in a refugee camp, orphanage, hospital, or on the streets. As a collaborative and convivial project, the work emphasizes the social and economic aspects of fiber crafts and arts. Historically, sewing circles brought a vital income to families in need. With Comforter Art-Actions, there is a re-definition of this need-based tradition.
- host:
- Lois Klassen
- date & time:
- June 18th, 2007 at 7 pm
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Lois Klassen is a visual artist active in community-based art and collaborations. Comforter Art-Action is an ongoing intervention in which she works with artists, school groups, friends, and family in the construction of patchwork blankets for displaced people. She is a 15 year veteran of Mail Art projects and has exhibited work at the Western Front and Video In Studios in Vancouver, a subway station in Berlin, and a costume parade at the Havana Biennial among other venues.