A Conversation with the Collab Quilt Collective

Click the link to watch the recording and hear what Lindsey Bond, Jacquelyn Hébert, Christel Lanthier, Kalea Turner-Beckman, and Michelle Wilson share.

Recording:
https://youtu.be/o84xLiioa1g

March 8, 2023
11:00 am – 12:15 pm CST on Zoom
In conjunction with Lindsey Bond’s exhibition Conversational Threads, Gallery 1C03 is pleased to host a discussion with several members of the Collab Quilt Collective whose in-progress work, Conversational Quilt, is displayed in the gallery.

The Collab Quilt Collective self-identify as artists, folx, parents and grandparents who are sewing transformative textile conversations to unsettle divergent and overlapping colonial inheritances. The form and build relationships with inherited materials, skills and more-than-human neighbours. In striving to create more relational family legacies, we incorporate slow and diverse ecological material processes grounded in aspen parkland and prairie ecosystems. Our work acknowledges complex colonial harms and erasures while navigating interwoven histories across indigenous territories in what is now known as canada.

Images, left to right:
Jacquelyn Hébert, Souvenir de ma mémère sur un fond noir (Keepsake of my mémère on a black background) (detail), 2023, machine and hand-stitched quilting, hand beading using linen, cotton thread, leather, glass beads, 14” x 9”
Michelle Wilson, Confluences, 2022, merino and rabbit wool, glass beads, sequins and thread, 10” x 6 ½” x 1/2”
Lindsey Bond, Unwin Whirlpool, 2023, pieces of hand-me-down aunty fabric, eco printed silk and cotton with rose and tansy leaves are machine and hand sewn together, wool stuffing and cotton thread, 19” x 18” x ¼”.