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The Call for Papers is now open for the upcoming @uaacaauc Conference (Universities Art Association of Canada/Association d’art des universités du Canada) October 13-15 2026 at Concordia University, Montreal. Link in bio 🙌🏽✨ I’m organizing a session along with my fellow PhD researcher and we are looking for contributors wanting to share their research or research-creation paper in our panel. Deadline May 31. Application and info: https://lnkd.in/eya8jxYb ______ 2. Acts of Mending: Material, Social, and Political Repair Victoria MacBeath (@torimacbeath )Concordia University, [email protected] Co-chair: Pramila Choudhary (@pramilach )Concordia University, [email protected] Panel Session | Session de panel 2. Mending, at its most literal, means to repair through sewing or darning. Contemporary craft-based artists have taken up the practice in both material and symbolic forms: considering the reparative nature of craft practices in social, community-based, and political venues. Mending, as an act of repair, can be done through darning, patchwork, raffu, glueing, etc. It can also be done through conversation, attention, and taking responsibility. Mending can be a material, aesthetic, or historical act and often intersects with conversations around care, sustainability, and agency. Mending is a reparative act, but also involves a rupture. It can restore, or if done improperly, can make the rupture worse. This panel invites proposals that examine the role of mending in (re)making (materials, future, and pasts). Mending here can be a method, a material practice, and/or a framework for analysis. Keywords: mending, craft, care, conservation _____ Every fall, UAAC-AAUC hosts Canada’s professional conference for visual arts-based research by art historians, professors, artists, curators, and cultural workers. The conference is held at a different location each year, generally at a Canadian university or college. The sessions and panels address issues and subjects in art history, theory, and practice from various methodological approaches.

Crafting Commons: Material | Making | Meditate Panels, artist showcases, and hands-on workshops exploring craft, sustainability, and seasonal material practices. CONCORDIA PUBLIC SCHOLAR EVENT 🌱 Jan 27, 2026 | 📍 4TH SPACE, Concordia | Free For all 🔗 Schedule & registration: link in bio Schedule (EST)* 🕙 10:00 AM–1:00 PM — Listening | Panel Discussion 🍴 1:00–1:30 PM — Lunch Break 👀 1:30–2:30 PM — Observing | Artist Showcase 🧶 2:30–5:00 PM — Making | Experiential Workshops A day of slowing down—reflecting on traditions, seasonal rhythms, and how care, constraint, and making can shape shared futures. Led by Pramila Choudhary Public Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal with collaborators and community partners. This spotlight event is generously supported by Southern Asian Studies (Dept. of Religions & Cultures, Concordia University), Growing A.R.C. (non-profit), Projecthandstitch, and the Textiles & Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute.

Crafting Commons: Material | Making | Meditate Panels, artist showcases, and hands-on workshops exploring craft, sustainability, and seasonal material practices. CONCORDIA PUBLIC SCHOLAR EVENT 🌱 Jan 27, 2026 | 📍 4TH SPACE, Concordia | Free For all 🔗 Schedule & registration: link in bio Schedule (EST)* 🕙 10:00 AM–1:00 PM — Listening | Panel Discussion 🍴 1:00–1:30 PM — Lunch Break 👀 1:30–2:30 PM — Observing | Artist Showcase 🧶 2:30–5:00 PM — Making | Experiential Workshops A day of slowing down—reflecting on traditions, seasonal rhythms, and how care, constraint, and making can shape shared futures. Led by Pramila Choudhary Public Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal with collaborators and community partners. This spotlight event is generously supported by South Asian Studies (Dept. of Religions & Cultures, Concordia University), Growing A.R.C. (non-profit), Projecthandstitch, and the Textiles & Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute.

Crafting Commons: Material | Making | Meditate Panels, artist showcases, and hands-on workshops exploring craft, sustainability, and seasonal material practices. CONCORDIA PUBLIC SCHOLAR EVENT 🌱 Jan 27, 2026 | 📍 4TH SPACE, Concordia | Free For all 🔗 Schedule & registration: link in bio Schedule (EST)* 🕙 10:00 AM–1:00 PM — Listening | Panel Discussion 🍴 1:00–1:30 PM — Lunch Break 👀 1:30–2:30 PM — Observing | Artist Showcase 🧶 2:30–5:00 PM — Making | Experiential Workshops A day of slowing down—reflecting on traditions, seasonal rhythms, and how care, constraint, and making can shape shared futures. Led by Pramila Choudhary Public Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal with collaborators and community partners. This spotlight event is generously supported by South Asian Studies (Dept. of Religions & Cultures, Concordia University), Growing A.R.C. (non-profit), Projecthandstitch, and the Textiles & Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute.

Crafting Commons: Material | Making | Meditate Panels, artist showcases, and hands-on workshops exploring craft, sustainability, and seasonal material practices. CONCORDIA PUBLIC SCHOLAR EVENT 🌱 Jan 27, 2026 | 📍 4TH SPACE, Concordia | Free For all 🔗 Schedule & registration: link in bio Schedule (EST)* 🕙 10:00 AM–1:00 PM — Listening | Panel Discussion 🍴 1:00–1:30 PM — Lunch Break 👀 1:30–2:30 PM — Observing | Artist Showcase 🧶 2:30–5:00 PM — Making | Experiential Workshops A day of slowing down—reflecting on traditions, seasonal rhythms, and how care, constraint, and making can shape shared futures. Led by Pramila Choudhary Public Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal with collaborators and community partners. This spotlight event is generously supported by Southern Asian Studies (Dept. of Religions & Cultures, Concordia University), Growing A.R.C. (non-profit), Projecthandstitch, and the Textiles & Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute.

April 23, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 PM EST Find the link in the bio for the talk 🌱 Join us to explore the journey of a super cool sheep farmer & scholar of the Black Atlantic 🐑—tracing Black agricultural knowledge in 18th-century Mi’kma’ki and its living presence in African Nova Scotian craft and foodways. SJ Jones is a PhD candidate in History at Dalhousie University, researching the agricultural contributions of enslaved and free Black communities in 18th-century Mi’kma’ki, with a focus on Black craft and foodways shaped by the Transatlantic slave trade. A mixed-race African Nova Scotian and white settler, SJ is also a permaculture designer and caretaker of Icelandic sheep in Kempt Shore, Nova Scotia, working with wool to make sweaters, table runners, pillows, and quilts.

Join us on March 26, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 PM EST Link to the talk in bio A talk exploring making processes through analog and digital tools, focusing on acts of learning and unlearning across craft, design, and digital practices—where skills from different domains come into dialogue. Tricia Crivellaro (she/her/elle) is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator based between Montréal and Toronto. Drawing on her background in menswear design, her practice investigates the intersections of fashion, design, and cultural studies through practice-based methodologies integrating analog and digital tools.

📣SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We are excited to host this special talk by Prof. Saumya Pande, which will explore the before- and after-care practices of mending in Kheta quilts of the Shershabadi community. February 19, 2026 7:00–8:00 PM IST | 8:30–9:30 AM EST* (Please make a note of this special time.) Saumya Pande is a designer, textile researcher and educator whose practice seamlessly blends textiles, fashion and visual arts. For over 25 years, her design work has been rooted in the principles of slow living and cultural preservation, consistently pushing the boundaries of form and materiality. Her current research, culminating in two books, is a deep design investigation into the intricate Kheta quilts of the Shershabadi community and the weaving traditions of Kerala’s Devang weavers, exploring themes of memory, identity and cultural legacy.

Join us on 22 January, 12–1 PM EST, for a conversation on Sustainable Threads, a community project from Manchester, UK. This session opens the Winter 2026 Moving Mending Circle talk series. Link to the talk in bio Talk will be moderated by Molly Clair Featuring Dr. Ghada Soliman, Sustainability Advocate and Social Impact Researcher at the University of Manchester. She has contributed to the Lean Manufacturing project, supporting sustainable and digital transformation in the UK textile sector. As the founder of Sustainable Threads, she leads inclusive community initiatives in clothing repair and recycling, empowering marginalised groups and promoting environmental awareness. Her work bridges sustainability, migration, and social justice, combining academic research with practical innovation and community engagement.”

End of the year finally trying fresh snow magic on sheep wool woven coat and handwoven camel hair stole to give a new life, kept both into the snow for one-one hour, fibers are fluffy and fresh. 2025 taught many things, and hit few milestones. Above all of this showing up each time when it seemed impossible was a greatest moment. Wishing everyone out there creative 2026

Thank you @mani.doro.mending @neatcazzola for sharing with us generously. Thank you everyone who could make it for the last talk of this semester. Among many thoughts, Anita coined a term, “Harvesting Materials “, from old garments, thrift stores and other places to keep the materials in line with the objects we are repairing and mending. While @laine.leau and @making.text.and.textile brining our attention to emotional durability, how act of repair and care can bring to the objects which we might have owned through hand me down or thrift stores or other second hand practices. Thank you @whimsicalandpopindie for mentioning about Rafugaari, and its cultural significance. We hope to learn more about your research soon. Till than happy and restful holidays everyone out there ✨🌿

Stories oh Home born out of many conversations among me and my friends @sabina.rak and @richysrirachanikorn (we find humans whom we would like to connect, keep in touch and collaborate; yes that’s the way we like to continue human connection), what better way to do it through community, home and story telling. As @richysrirachanikorn rightly put, we are holding on nostalgia to build our shared futures ✨ We have employed tactile story telling through unweaving and reweaving method, using humble jute and all the possible materials we could reuse in the process of reweaving our new stories. (As me and @sabina.rak love reusing materials and giving them new form, we believe there is enough materials to tell stories and through reusing them we continue to weave the stories into their new forms) Thank you all the participants who have kindly gave us their time and shared with generosity and care while weaving their stories. This series of workshop was supported by @textilesandmateriality @milieux_institute @nostagain @cuccr