Mending Workshop with Camila Salcedo

In this workshop, participants are invited to learn mending techniques including woven darning and visible mending to patch holes in their clothing while reflecting on labour, disability and sustainability. This workshop accompanies Camila Salcedo’s work around brain injuries, a part of Labour Pains curated by Emma Steen.

Materials provided, no previous experience required. Refreshments served.

NOTE: This event was previously listed at the Textile Museum of Canada however the venue has changed to SKETCH Working Arts.

Emma Steen is a Toronto based curator and writer. She received her BA at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS and then went on to complete a Masters of Art History at OCAD University in Toronto. Her area of interest lies in art and writing that explores intimacies, bodies, and gathering. Her background includes extensive work in community arts organizing, arts administration, and supporting methods of institutional accountability. As a curator, she has worked on multiple public art projects, with galleries, and in digital spaces. Growing up in Toronto’s downtown core has influenced her approach to curating and the importance of public art as a means of access to identity, placemaking, and feeling responsible, cared for and involved in the extended communities we are a part of.

Camila Salcedo is a Venezuelan-born interdisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto working primarily in textiles, performance, digital art, curation and community arts. They graduated from NSCAD University in 2018 with a BFA Interdisciplinary. They have shown their work at various galleries and festivals throughout Canada including Eyelevel Artist-Run Centre, Articule, Nocturne, Xpace Cultural Centre, Images Festival, Sur Gallery, Trinity Square Video, among others. Internationally, they have shown their work at the Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and Proyecto ACE in Argentina. They have done a number of artist residencies in Latin America including Arquetopia and The Lab Program in Mexico, Residencia Corazón in Argentina, and Arquetopia in Peru, as well as in Canada, through Harbourfront Centre and the Toronto Public Library.