Celebrate Fibre Art with OMAH – simcoe.com

Drop into the Orillia Museum of Art & History on Fibre Fun Day! This is a celebration of fibre art featuring two exhibitions, vendors, and demonstrations on Sunday, Feb. 2 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Try your hand at weaving, design your own quilt and make a pom pom at our fun activity stations. We are activating the whole museum, there will even be fibre fun to be had in our basement jail cells. Fibre Fun Day is suitable for all ages and experience.

While at Fibre Fun Day, check out two fibre art exhibitions:

At Risk: Tracey Lawko

Our native pollinators and their habitat are threatened. Insect populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticide use and disease. 75% of flowering plants rely on pollinators to set seed and we humans get one third of our food from flowering plants.

In recent years, Tracey has become increasingly aware of the changing patterns of the bees and butterflies in her garden and around her studio in the Niagara Escarpment. Through her finely stitched botanical illustrations, she invites the viewer to consider the importance of these small creatures to our survival.

Fibre Content Exhibition

The 2018 Fibre Content Exhibition is the Fourth Biennial Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fibre Art. It showcased 90 works by 60 artists from across Ontario, in fabric, paper, yarn, thread and mixed media materials.

The goal of the exhibition is to raise the profile, awareness and acceptance of fibre art as a fine art form. A selection of 40 of these pieces form a smaller exhibition that has traveled to museums and galleries across the province and is currently on display at OMAH.

Fibre Fun Day is free with regular admission.