Laurie's 2010 Schedule
March 15-19, 2010
Laurie Swim will help unveil the memorial quilt she originated, Unveiling Breaking Ground: The Hogg's Hollow Disaster 1960 at York Mills TTC station on the 50th Anniversary of the "Hogg's Hollow Disaster"
Press Release (web) | Press Release (PDF)
July 22-September 5, 2010
Laurie's solo show, Land, Sea and Memory, will be premiered at the Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia after which it travels to the del Mano Gallery in Los Angeles.
Mary E. Black Gallery | del Mano Gallery
2010 WORKSHOPS WITH LAURIE SWIM
Weekend 1: July 31-August 2, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 1 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Weekend 2: August 13-15, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 2 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Weekend 3: August 27-29, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 3 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Weekend 4: September 4-6, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 4 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Weekend 5: September 17-19, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 5 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Weekend 6: October 1-3, 2010
"From Start to Finish" Session 6 of Laurie's popular, 3-day weekend workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (only 8 spaces are available for each of these weekend events)
"From Start to Finish" PDF Information | E-mail Laurie to register
Laurie's 2009 Schedule
March, 2009
Featured Artist, solo show at Arts on Queen, 2198 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario.
June 4-6, 2009
Featured Artist at River Head Annual Quilt Show, Long Island, New York. She will be exhibiting her work and presenting 2 lectures at the show. She will also be teaching a workshop at the Eastern Long Island Quilters Guild.
Eastern Long Island Quilters Guild
April 20-21, 2009
Laurie will be the guest presenter and teaching two workshops for the York Heritage Quilters Guild in Toronto, Ontario.
York Heritage Quilters Guild
May, 2009
Laurie will be teaching a workshop at the Cape Breton Craft Centre in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Laurie's 2008 Schedule
Breaking Ground: The Hogg's Hollow Disaster 1960 to be installed in the York Mills Subway Station, Toronto. This work, completed in 2000, will be installed at the York Mills Subway station. It's the first fabric work to be acquired by the TTC since "Barren Ground Caribou", a quilted work by Joyce Weiland depicting a group of caribou on the tundra, in 1972.
Transit Toronto
August 30-October 15, 2008
Laurie Swim: The Quilt as Art at the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
This solo show, a retrospective of the work Laurie's done since moving back home to Nova Scotia in 2004 past 4 years, will contain many of the works in her recent book, Rags to Riches: The Quilt as Art.
Rossignol Cultural Centre
October 4-November 2, 2008
Featured Artist, Fall Fiber Show Handworks Gallery of American Crafts, Acton, Massachusetts
Laurie will be present Sunday afternoon, October 26, 2008.
Handworks Gallery
October 11-Nov. 15, 2008
Laurie Swim: Regaining Paradise at the del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles California.
This solo show will contain new works only. A catalog of these works is available from del Mano.
del Mano Gallery
October 17-19, 2008
Featured Artist, Creativ Festival, Toronto. Laurie will be teaching and presenting as well as tending her booth at show where books and her new line of art cards will be available. She will be on hand to sign her latest book, Rags to Riches: The Quilt as Art.
Creativ Festival
November 7-9, 2008
International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition (SOFA), Chicago, Illinois
Laurie will be in the del Mano Gallery booth.
International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition (SOFA)
