Wunderkammer Show

Posted on May 18, 2017 by sproutspress

Image: Ele Willoughby

This past saturday was the opening for the group show I’m in: Wunderkammer: The Cabinet of Curiosity. It was curated by the Captain of the Toronto Etsy Street Team and all pieces included are of a science/nature theme. I’m so proud to have one of my artists books (and paintings!) alongside so many other talented makers. Scroll through the photos for a quick sampling of the work on display.

Image: Ele Willoughby

If you weren’t able to make the opening, don’t worry! The show runs from now till May 28 at The Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, 906 Queen St West, Toronto

Show hours are:
Tuesdays: 11 am – 4 pm
Wednesdays through Sundays: noon to 6 pm

For more information and to see the website, go here.

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Wunderkammer Show

Posted on May 9, 2017 by sproutspress

I’ll be part of a group show, Wunderkammer: The Cabinet of Curiosities, at the new Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, running May 11 – 28! It’s the gallery’s first group art show, and my first art gallery show in many years. I’m really looking forward to it and hope you’ll join us at the opening (details below).

About the show:
“This art – or science art – show, is inspired by the Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosity, the immense, eccentric, encyclopedic natural history collections gathered by collectors since the Renaissance. Cabinets of Curiosities featured treasured zoological, botanical, anatomical, fossil and gem specimen, collected by early citizen scientists. WUNDERKAMMER features original sculptures, drawings, hand-bound books, prints, paintings, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, generative and multimedia specimen of natural and unnatural history on all scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.”

Where: Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, 906 Queen St. W., Toronto
When: May 11 – 28, 2017. Opening reception is this saturday, May 13, 6pm – 10pm. RSVP here to attend the opening.

For more information, please see the gallery website here.

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Take the House & Home Spring Decorating Quiz! Win a $500 Etsy Gift Card!!

Posted on April 20, 2017 by sproutspress

Here’s a fun thing: Etsy has collaborated with House & Home to create a spring decorating quiz and video – featuring many local makers’ products! (Sprouts Press included!!)

Take the quiz, watch the video and see if you can spot the Sprouts Press journal!! And while you’re at it, enter your quiz results to be entered in a contest to win a $500 Etsy gift card!! Woot!

Sound like fun? Take the quiz here. Contest closes June 6, 2017.

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February: International Correspondence Writing Month!

Posted on February 2, 2017 by sproutspress

February just got a whole lot better. Why? Because it’s International Correspondence Writing Month! (InCoWriMo for short)

To participate, all you have to do is hand write and mail/deliver one piece of correspondence a day for the month of February. This can be letters, postcards, notes, cards, etc. And it can be to anyone; strangers, public figures, friends, family, etc. You can write to a different person each day, the same person every day, or any combo in between!

And good news, if you want to keep all this correspondence organized, take a look at Sprouts Press’ Correspondence Journals! You may remember them from last year’s One of a Kind Christmas Show (maybe you got one as a gift?). They’re finally available online, take a look here. More colours are being added daily, so keep your eyes peeled!

Or, if you prefer to shop in person, I’ll have a selection of Correspondence Journals, amongst other hand bound journals, available at the Paper Fair this saturday (February 4, 2017) at Toronto’s First Post Office. Please go here for details.

Want more information about InCoWriMo? Check out the official website here.