William Reid is having an artist, Sue Contini, come into work with the students in April and May. Sue is requesting donations of clean fabric (clothing, drapery, sweaters, pants etc.) that otherwise would be headed to the landfill for one of the projects. If you could start sending those donations in on Monday, Sue can use her electric fabric cutter to start prepping for her residency. Please see Sue’s message below.  

Thank you to everyone for helping with this school-wide project! 

 “Weaving webs, like orb spiders, taking a thread and building a home. Weaving tales, sharing through ancestors, building the stories of our lives. Creating new from old, something from seemingly nothing and the weaving of possibility. This ancient art form is cross-cultural, and gives us the opportunity to explore creatively. My grandmother was a weaver and the ‘threads’ of her teaching have coloured my art as a painter. 

I am really looking forward to creating with the students of Ecole William Reid!  Our work together will involve creating a ‘living fence’ that involves the basic skills of weaving, and then will branch into more contemporary exploration of the techniques learned, basing our ideas on the stories of ourselves. 

We will require some help from the school community.   

One of our projects will involve repurposing clean fabric (clothing, drapery, sweaters, pants etc.) that otherwise would be headed to the landfill - if you could collect it and bring it to the school, it will be repurposed in a magnificent way!  

For our living fence, if anyone has a connection to a nursery for plants and potting soil, we’d be ecstatic! 

Many thanks, 

 Sue Contini, Artist-in-Residence