Addicted to weaving ...

2012-01-20T09:00:00.001-08:00

http://youtu.be/EiaYSqiSMeg

Vernisage at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

2012-01-17T08:09:00.000-08:00

http://youtu.be/EiaYSqiSMeg

2012-01-17T08:05:00.000-08:00

Have a conventional look at textured pottery - Events - By EMC News Almonte/Carleton Place Local Community News

2012-01-04T07:10:00.000-08:00

Have a conventional look at textured pottery - Events - By EMC News Almonte/Carleton Place Local Community News

Woven Bridges

2011-12-20T16:41:00.000-08:00

Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

2011-11-27T05:45:00.000-08:00

20 December, 2011 ~ 28 January, 2012

Norah Rosamond Hughes Gallery

Reception-Vernissage - 14 January, 2012

2pm-4pm

Woven Bridges

Krystyna Sadej
together with:

Ewa Bartosz Mazus, Thomas Cronenberg, Thoma Ewen, Monique Lehman, Ixchel Suarez

Woven Bridges demonstrates the very strong connection between Canadian, American and European artists who share the same interest and love of tapestry weaving. This exhibition comprehensively demonstrates the dynamic field of contemporary woven textile art, in which a rich variety of materials, diverse techniques and experimental forms can produce works of striking diversity and originality, combining humour and seriousness, recycling, and reflections on the nature of everyday life.

Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

3, Rosamond St. E.
Almonte, Ontario

More info:
613-256-3754
curator@mvtm.ca
www.mvtm.ca

Woven Bridges - Tapestries Exhibit and Artist Talk

2011-10-03T19:07:00.000-07:00

"Tapestries" - an exhibit by Thoma Ewen, Krystyna Sadej, and two guest artists, Ewa Bartosz Mazus from Poland and Thomas Cronenberg from Germany. Together, their work presents an energetic dialogue of cross-cultural vision and an open-ended approach to contemporary woven art.

City of Ottawa, the Centrepointe Theatre Gallery, 101 Centrepointe Drive

October 28 to November 30 2011

The City of Ottawa will host an artist talk "Textiles in Europe Today"

by Thomas Cronenberg, on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7pm.

The talk will provide an excellent opportunity for cultural exchange between Mr. Cronenberg and Ottawa-area fibre artists. The reception will follow the talk. We sincerely invite all to join us. The event is free of charge. (Room 1A in the Ben Franklin Place complex, 101 Centrepointe Drive)

Thomas Cronenberg ~ is one of the leading contemporary tapestry artists in Europe today. His works are autobiographical memoirs and technical masterpieces. A many-time recipient of awards and prizes, Thomas has exhibited all over Europe and the United States, is a longtime contributor to and guest editor of the renowned Textile Forum magazine, and is a member of the Steering Committee of European Tapestry Forum (ETF).

Exhibit in Mexico City

2011-06-08T18:57:00.001-07:00

(Please click on the picture to see the you-tube video)
I have also participated in that exhibit with my felted piece "Painted with the Sun" (little obsession with the ciircles")- rusty-yelowish, long piece... Thank you Ixchel for inviting me to the show, it was very beautiful one!

* Exhibition parallel to the VI International Bienial of textile art in the Anahuac University. This time: Encounter: Mexico-Canada, Fibre art where several members of the Canadian Tapestry Network participated: Thoma Ewen, Krysztyna Sadej, Stella Tang, Ixchel Suarez, Peter Harris a...nd some mexican artists such as Carmen Tejada, Claudia Gonzalez, Lourdes Aspe and Georgette Geddovious. Opening ceremony and round table Wednesday was May 25 at 12:00 at the School of Design of the Anahuac University, in Mexico City.
The exhibition run until June.*

http://youtu.be/6acQF8ZhwQY

My exhibit in Zakopane-Poland

2011-06-08T18:50:00.000-07:00

When 13 Moons Entwine...

2010-09-17T08:44:00.000-07:00

2010-07-30T17:50:00.000-07:00

Ottawa School of Art / École d’art d’OttawaOrleans Campus d’Orléans
When: August 12 to September 4, 2010Opening: Thursday August 12, 2010 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.:
613.580.2765
245, boulevard Centrum Boulevard Ottawa, ON

Katarzyna Sadej sings "Dzwon Zapustny"

2010-07-03T14:26:00.000-07:00

Poland - Tapestry Triennale - Lodz

2010-05-25T00:10:00.000-07:00

2010-04-03T09:41:00.000-07:00

Front of tapestry "Flowers for Zofia"(made in 1994)

Happy Easter Holiday from Poland!

Flowers above the Sofa

2010-01-23T05:52:00.000-08:00

This tapestry (42"/30") was made out of recycled fabric strips (some of my old sofa fabric). It was sold even before I finished it. It has a special place on the little balcony that is also a decoration of itself inside the house....

NORTHERN FIBRES ~ Show

2009-08-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

"Instructors Showcase"

2009-06-18T19:48:00.000-07:00

I was participating tonight at the Grand Opening of the new Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans (eastern part of Ottawa). It was such a great celebration.

I am exhibiting my tapestry "Empire of the Sun" in Ottawa School of Art's Gallery ("Instructors Showcase") The vernissage was held tonight in conjunction with the grand opening festivities of the Shenkman Arts Centre.

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I retitled my work from "Warmed-up sun" to "Empire of the Sun"

My husband Andrzej at the front of my tapestry that he nicely framed

"Warmed-up Sun"

2009-06-02T07:43:00.000-07:00

Spider of The Universe

2009-05-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

Shortly after "Spring Shower", I made another mixed media piece called

"Spider of the Universe" ... and I painted my blouse to match...

Spring is finally here!

2009-05-26T19:48:00.000-07:00

I was waiting for a Spring to come ... My life was so boring and colourless after long, long winter... and finally Spring came,and I made this piece:

Almost finished...

2009-03-12T14:35:00.000-07:00

Publish Post

"Ghost Dance"

2009-02-20T08:07:00.000-08:00

My next project called "Ghost Dance". This mixed media painting is going to be transforming to tapestry. It has a very personal meaning of breaking the fearful emotion to ghosts and finding to the cheerful spirits of theirs.

My new see-through mask

2009-02-19T15:24:00.000-08:00

I finally I can weave and breath! Thanks to my dear dentist Ben who order for me this see-through mask...

Work in progress...

2009-02-19T10:02:00.000-08:00

It is a little bit unusual (recently) for me to weave a picturesque tapestry. Although the cartoon behind the warp is somewhat realistic, I am not weaving a detailed picture ... I want to finish with a simple and somewhat rough tapestry... after all, it is an old time image (1981). It represents me breast-feeding my daughter Weronika and the tapestry is supposed to be a wedding gift for her. She was married in December 2008. The cartoon was ready two years ago when she was engaged, but due to my allergies I had a hard time to begin. Now I am finally weaving it slowly, wearing a mask on my face and inhaling many antihistamine puffs...

Connections... "Magic Tapestry Network"

2009-02-15T19:25:00.000-08:00

I made this piece for the American Tapestry Alliance's contest with the theme "Connections". Although my tapestry was not chosen for the show, I do not feel sad because I love my tapestry very much and I would never make it if the "connection" subject would not intrigue me. While I was weaving this tapestry, I was thinking about all the weavers who belong like me to the same circle - Tapestry creators.

We all share this wonderful passion
Revealing our happiness
And pain of creating,
We exchange ideas and knowledge
Of this beautiful medium….
We fill up empty space with threads
Weaving the enchantment or the ordinary
We expand this same web
That is Magic Tapestry Network.
..........This piece is dedicated to all of you remarkable weavers.

Addicted to weaving

2009-01-14T08:30:00.000-08:00

"Last drop"

"Grail"

... in progress...

Warping and weaving plastic bottle (after cutting its bottom) …

January 14 2009
Temperature -26°C - Wind chill -37°C

Wow! So much for my asthma! I am hibernating at home. In September I got shingles and still did not recover completely. I was sick again and again with the flue and cold, allergies and asthma and weaving big tapestries was out of question. But I was not completely hopeless, I was making a small stuff! I said stuff, because those experiments - although woven … are not tapestries ...