Textiles + Materiality Cluster

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.

It’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for our end-of-the-term community stitch gathering. We are enjoying new natural colours and all the new thoughts through making. Slowing down and connecting with each other are the movements we appreciate a lot. You all have been very kind to join this stitch adventure. End of the winter semester 🪻 Looking forward to all the sunshine ahead of us 🌿🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 📸 @sharmistha_kart Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart

It’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for our end-of-the-term community stitch gathering. We are enjoying new natural colours and all the new thoughts through making. Slowing down and connecting with each other are the movements we appreciate a lot. You all have been very kind to join this stitch adventure. End of the winter semester 🪻 Looking forward to all the sunshine ahead of us 🌿🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart

Join us for a pop-up end-of-term stitching gathering as we come together to stitch a new panel exploring the politics of wool. A space to slow down, make together, and open conversations around material histories, labour, and wool/textile politics. Wednesday, 15 April 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EV Junction 1515 Ste. Catherine St. W. Metro: Guy-Concordia Drop in anytime, bring your curiosity, and stitch with us. Hosted by Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan And RA team @sharmistha_kart @laine.leau @gen_larousse @fer____su @pramilach #StitchingEvent #TextilePolitics #PoliticsOfWool #MaterialCulture #ConcordiaUniversity CommunityMaking SlowMaking WoolStories PS we are thinking about our last gathering at @landmade_fibre these photos have been captured there ☺️🐑🌱

Throwback to our community event took place in December, our phone is showing memories, what a wonderful way to revisit, as we are still dreaming about all the love revived at @landmade_fibre Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @sharmistha_kart @pramilach

We are still thinking about all of you have joined our stitching table and cultivated conversation all things woolly and sustainable. @landmade_fibre thank you for creating thoughtful event with care and love. Team @thefutureiswool

Beautiful community moments we have experienced recently at @landmade_fibre our heart is full ♥️🐑 Thank you everyone for your generous contributions to new panel with your marks and stitches 🌿🐑 We look forward to be part of such gathering soon. Photo courtesy @sharmistha_kart

Not all hero’s wear cap ✨🐑 Some advocate, nurture fibers and animals, write books, bring friends to the crafting circle 🐑 Join us at Landmade festival for our community stitching circle 🐑 @landmade_fibre We are eager to host you 🐑

Monday wools from our studio session 🌿 Seen here, how we as a team take turns on our embroidery frame. We start with a ritual of setting up the space, frames, tying knots at the edges and mutually deciding on which area each one of will continue to stitch. With some laughter, giggles and sometime serious discussion over colour, form and textures Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @sharmistha_kart @pramilach @laine.leau @fer____su

For The Future is Wool project, this is our first panel, which we have envisioned as a team. Community members from the ages of 5 to 90 have contributed their hands along the way. Our aim was to launch the project and work with locally farm-grown natural sheep-colour wool, as well as naturally dyed wool in various counts and thicknesses for testing. Along the way, we learned about the fibre and the stories we want to tell through our upcoming panels, highlighting our learning about various sheep breeds. We also explored ways to incorporate hand drawings and hand embroidery, with the help of technology to trace the blue lines. Now we are in the phase of knitting the yarns, connecting all the dots, and getting ready for the next panel, which we will be bringing to @landmade_fibre Fest in March in Toronto. Keep watching this space for more updates. Valorising Canadian local sheep wool, while also sharing sheep wool stories from elsewhere. Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart @laine.leau

Hands which stitch the future together ✨ Studio moments during today’s session. Team is slowly finishing first panel of the series. We can’t keep the calm 😅 Follow @thefutureiswool Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team: @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart

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.