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PROMISCUITY AS PRAXIS (OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE BEING A huge SLUT)
(2024) PUBLIC PROGRAM FOR NOT A GIRL NOT YET A WOMAN PRESENTED BY NEUTRAL GROUND ARTIST-RUN-CENTRE
THE TABER BUDDHIST WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION COOKBOOK
(2022) IN COLLABORATION WITH AND PUBLISHED BY YOLKLESS PRESS
“A Japanese cookbook titled Oriental Cuisine was originally published by the Japanese Buddhist Church of Taber (now called the Buddhist Temple of Southern Alberta), a community formed due to the internment of Japanese-Canadians during WWII.
The artist’s grandmother acquired this cookbook and has used it throughout her life, her copy marked with personal revisions and innovations. Caldwell inherited this cookbook, and in the act of republishing, the artist hopes to bring attention to this forgotten community of women, their families, and their stock of knowledge.
Each book comes wrapped in furoshiki, dyed using the snow around the artist’s studio in Mohkinstsis, with gratitude to this Treaty 7 land that allowed the re-rooting of Japanese-Canadians who were displaced from the coast and forced to restart their lives.”
collaborative weaving workshop
(2021) @ ESKER FOUNDATION
Participants joined Project Space artist Molly JF Caldwell for an earth-friendly interactive workshop where they learnt how to transform old clothing, sheets, or fabric into textile art. Molly shared her knowledge and skills, including how to warp a loom, weaving techniques, and creating patterns. Participants worked on their own project and had the opportunity to add to a collaborative large-scale weaving. Over the course of this workshop series and until it was complete, the collaborative weaving was publicly installed in the Atlantic Avenue Art Block atrium and was added to by the public on a drop-in, ongoing basis, until finished.
sakiori weaving workshop
(2021) @ GATHER TEXTILES
“Japanese Sakiori is a form of weaving with fabric scraps to create a new cloth. The word Sakiori comes from the word saku (to tear or rip) and oru (to weave). In this workshop, Molly will walk you through how to turn your fabric scraps into yarn, and then how to weave with the yarn you have created on a four shaft loom. You will create a small Sakiori rug/table runner/wall hanging of approximately 12x18”
The intention of this workshop was to approach repurposing textiles from alternative perspectives. Can repurposing be a form of archive? Of preservation? Of tradition? Why do we only look at restoration and mending as the methods for respecting textiles?