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Celebrating Artistry: Exploring the Creative Journey with Isabelle Sain

Sat, Oct 21

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Mississauga

Join artist Isabelle Sain as she leads participants through a discussion of textiles as objects that hold meaning and memories.

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Celebrating Artistry: Exploring the Creative Journey with Isabelle Sain
Celebrating Artistry: Exploring the Creative Journey with Isabelle Sain

Time & Location

Oct 21, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Mississauga, 1352 Lakeshore Rd E, Mississauga, ON L5E 1E9, Canada

About the event

In Celebrating Artistry: Exploring the Creative Journey, Isabelle Sain will lead participants through a discussion of textiles as objects that hold meaning and memories. 

The first portion of the talk will be focused on textiles carrying stories and memories. The next portion of the talk is about textiles’ wear and tear as a unique visible indicator of memory. In this portion of the work-shop we will explore my practice of surface design techniques that purposefully distort and disrupt the textiles to mimic the impressions of life. This consists of printing, dying and sculptures to disrupt textiles. The unique mechanical and chemical imprinting conceptualizes this idea that textiles are storytellers and repositories of our lives and material expressions of what it means to be human. The purpose of the discussion is to reflect on memory and identities entangled in the threads of textiles. The making of textiles and garments has a…

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