Taking Down the Exhibits

The Canadians left early Sunday morning.

It was suppose to be my 'rest' day but instead I did an interview ...

An interview with art director, Daniel Kevorkian,
from KEVO.

Daniel filming my work Looking for Labradorite.

...and then helped out at the Loggia Barbaro. I explained the Minerals' exhibit. Some of the visitors were friends and students from other parts of Italy that I was happy to catch up with. All spectators were very interested in the works even if they were not in the textile field.

Work visible, Mica by Wilma Kenny

Work right: Fundy Flame Agate by Kate Madeloso

Work left: Memory Stone by Helena Scheffer

The prize ceremony took place the last day of Verona Tessile.

The President of Ad Maiora speaking at San Giorgetto.
Work by Canadian artist, Suzanne Neilson, hangs on the right.

It was packed.

Our tour guide, Christina Zuegg, received an award for her piece in the International Juried Exhibit "...E Lucean le Stelle".

The next day we took down everything.

Carolina and Luca taking a break outside San Giorgetto.

Today, they got packed up and are ready to mail back to the makers.

That timing is amazing! There were about 200 works. See what happens when people work as a team?

Omni News interview

Click here to view the interview. (THE INTERVIEW IS NOT AVAILABLE AFTER SEPT. 1, 2011)

Click Italian News Ontario-July 7, 2011, which is on the right of the video screen.

The interview is at 17:50 minutes.

The interviewer, Laura D'Aprile, filmed all the works in the show. Two of them are mine. She also got some shots of some of my other art works and blankets that are not exhibited in the gallery.

My grandparents in circa 1965, Montreal
One of my pieces is about her.

change of plans

Because of a timing issue with the programming the TV interview has been moved to Thursday, July 7, on OMNI 1, somewhere between 8 and 9 pm.

Interview

I recently was interviewed by Laura D'Aprile from OMNI ONE, the local italian television station.

Laura D'Aprile at work at Side Space Gallery

It gave me an opportunity to speak about my artwork and my italian heritage...all in ITALIAN!

Laura filming my art piece, Many Moons

We had a really fun few hours together!

It will air July 1 between 8 and 9 pm on OMNI 1

If you cannot see it then, click here, from July 2nd onwards. It will be there for about six weeks.

la di da!

The Fibreworks show was reviewed in the Saturday, Globe and Mail! It is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper with a weekly readership of about 1 million...I wonder how many got to the ARTS page and the few lines that were written about us!

No matter! It was an exciting moment for me to see that!

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