Mending and Textiles Care Workshop | Mitchell Chalifoux and Katelin Karbonik
Mitchell Chalifoux's collaborative performance project Pairs will wrap up with a workshop on February 6 at 1pm. The workshop will be facilitated by Chalifoux and Katelin Karbonik, author of Pairs' exhibition text.
In this workshop, Chalifoux and Karbonik will discuss and share the practical, beautiful skills of mending. They will cover how and when to mend, and show a number of introductory techniques, including darning socks, knitwear, and visible mending. Please bring your garments with rips and holes, materials (needle, thread, yarn, and scissors), and questions.
Mitchell Chalifoux (any pronouns) is an artist based in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. Their art practice contemplates resourcefulness, hobby forms, decoration, and femininities, frequently using performance and craft media. Working with existing materials in a contradicting scarce and abundant present is core to Mitchell’s methods. Their work has appeared in SNAPline, and in exhibitions across Canada, including Idea Exchange (Cambridge, ON), and Alberta Printmakers (Calgary, AB). Most recently, Mitchell has participated in the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, ITA), and in the Zero Gravity Performance Art Workshop (Edmonton, AB). They will be performing in a new movement work by choreographer Peggy Baker and CRIPSiE (Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton) in 2021. While not making art, Mitchell spends their time baking and waiting for summer blooms.
Katelin Karbonik is an Edmonton-based dress historian and textiles-based maker. She is currently finishing her MA in Material Culture focusing on making and wearing as ways of knowing.