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I have been thinking about Maud Lewis again....maybe as it is near Christmas, the season Maud loved. If you are on twitter, check out @LKenneyrugs as I am posting a few of my Maud rugs..reminding people that the film Maudie was not a documentary.

 It is tricky when you base a movie on a true story.

There are many people alive today that are upset by Maudie...they knew Maud and Ev..and about the Poor Farm. They didn't like the sugarcoating that went on in the movie. 

I am going to sign off for 2020.

I want to wish you a lovely holiday...and hang in there.

Maud's Last Sketch

 

International Rug hooking Day.

 

Happy International Rug Hooking Day.

I am so grateful to the women who first took a feed bag, ripped it open, and hooked with worn clothing so many years ago.

And, here is to the women today who continue to push rug hooking in new and exciting ways....keep going ladies.

#rughooking #internationalrug

 

 

Rugs available!

 Hello!

If you are looking for a rug, check out:

Fog Forest Gallery, Sackville, NB https://fogforestgallery.ca/artists/laura-kenney
Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, NS http://www.harvestgallery.ca/searchresults.php…
Secord Gallery, Halifax, NS https://www.secordgallery.com/art/index.php?/category/117

Thanks!

 

 

Fog Forest Gallery

 

Morning!

I mailed some rugs off to Fog Forest Gallery in lovely Sackville, NB last week. If you see something you fancy please get in touch with Janet.

1+506-536-9000 / Cell: 1+506-878-0691
janet@fogforestgallery.ca

Thanks!

 

The painter, the sculptor and the rug hooker.

I was very happy to be interviewed by Kim Hart Macneill for "At Home on the North Shore" along with Brandt Eisner and Christine Sandeson.

https://athomeonthenorthshore.ca/off-the-wall-2/?fbclid=IwAR0CjLhQwK_VB7rziVjzLPzsebbvR16mKMM0SN6rr33sKqOX6CHxKLqvgDo 

Lunch

 Lunch...post instagram cluster #%# takeover.

😀

Craft 2020

 

 

Have some..it will cool you off.

 This rug is now on display at the Mary E. Black Gallery.

#climateemergency #climateaction

Craft Year 2020

 I am happy to have my rug "Too Little Too Late" included in this show at the Mary E. Black Gallery.

Stomping Grounds

Some images from opening.
Show is on at the Ice House Gallery till Oct. 7th.

Stomping Grounds

I have a few rugs in "Stomping Grounds"
Opening is today..see you there!

September 11

 Sending love to the USA today.

Stomping Grounds

"Nothing New Under the Sun"

will be in the show "Stomping Grounds" at the Ice House Gallery, Grace Jollymore Joyce Arts Centre in lovely Tatamagouche, NS.

Opening reception on September 12th 1:00pm -2:30pm

Show continues until October 7th.

Participating Artists:

Laura Kenney
Jack Ross
Ted Coldwell
Jaye Ouellette
Judith Newman
Brandt Eisner
Louise Pentz
Mary Jane Lundy
Kay Stanfield
Shauna MacLeod
Sarah Irwin
Barb Schmeisser
Teresa Bergen
Geoffrey Grantham
Marcel Kerkhoff

Judy....being a Flower for the Bees.

The lovely new owner picked up "Judy..being a Flower for the Bees" last week.

We need art more than ever now.

Thanks for supporting artists.

Workshop

I had the good fortune to take a drawing class with Tom Forrestall the end of July in Parrsboro.
Had some laughs, learned a lot and the restaurant close by had the most excellent veggie burgers.

News

Hope everyone is safe and sound...hang in there.

I wanted to let you know about some rug news and other happenings.

My rug, "Too Little Too Late" was accepted in the Craft 2020 show coming this Fall at the Mary E. Black Centre in Halifax, more details to follow.

I will have a piece in "Stomping Ground" at the Ice House Gallery in Tatamagouche with the opening reception on September 12th between 1:00pm -2:30pm.

I will some rugs in the show "Imprint" at the Chase Exhibition Gallery in Halifax in October, more details to follow. 

Pascale Faubert has kindly done a bit about me on her blog and has some of my rugs available. https://en.pascalefaubert.com/blogs/le-blogue-de-pascale/crocheter-la-couleur-avec-laura-kenney 


And, last but not least, I will be featured in a book by Ray Cronin and will be with my favourite artists, Maud Lewis and David Stephens to name a few.

Got into some good trouble

Pride.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring sex discrimination in the workplace protects LGBTQ employees from being fired because of their sexual orientation.

Good news....but postponed due to Covid.

Dear Laura Kenney,

Thank you for all the thoughtfulness, care, and work you put into your submission to Atlantic
Vernacular. Your work Crime Scene was selected, but unfortunately, the exhibition itself is
postponed until further notice due to industry-wide disruptions caused by the global pandemic.

Not this year.

Well, dang it.
I was expecting this announcement but still it stings.
The Festival is like Christmas to me.
But, what can you do...safety first.
See you next year.

Kisses to all the Moms.

Ragged Life

I did this interview with Ragged Life a couple of months ago..before the world changed.

http://raggedlifeblog.com/laura-kenney/?fbclid=IwAR0UD4zhJmoX5xkOk55a-fu3skgTOz0pQepD7bMhp6pPTBtL3pbJm9NH6Ps

Mass shooting in Canada's Ocean Playground

I don't really know if we are this innocent place we are made out to be...Canada's Ocean Playground....that is what is on our license plates.


There is racism, poverty and crime here.
Are we really a casserole kind of people?

Are we the kind of place Maud painted?


I don't want us to be known as the province where that horrible mass shooting took place.

All I know is I don't usually lock my door and I have started to.
I usually go for  walks but I am scared to go out.
I am letting the bad guy win.
 I know the fear will go and we will return to our "happy folk" kind of ways...if that is what we ever were.

Grieving

Canada's worse mass shooting took place close to my neck of the woods yesterday.

Love and peace to Nova Scotia.

Pandemic

Strange times, indeed.
I pretty much stay home most of the time and hook so not much has changed for me in terms of my lifestyle...but galleries are closing, exhibits postponed ...so there is that.

Also,

I worry about my Mom and sister and the health care workers.
I worry when my kids will go back to school.
I worry about the people losing their jobs.
I worry about the homeless.
I worry about seniors.

But all I can do is hook....and continue to spray everything with a 10% solution of  bleach.

Hang in there people...this too shall pass.

Hang in there.

Hang in there...this too shall pass.
#covid19

World Events

I hooked this rug last year.

I was just being silly.

It was a year or two ago that a  Maud Lewis exhibit was held in China, along with a few other NS artists and it struck me as Maud had never been out of the province and  her artwork being shown so far from her home......if she were alive today imagine how she would feel.

So I hooked up her three cats..with masks to protect against the pollution...and the Chinese flag in the background.

Now when I look at this rug, all I can think of is the coronavirus.

World events can bring a new meaning to art.

Take care of each other.

International Women's Day

Keep reaching for the Stars.

Pascale Faubert

Pascale Faubert, textile artist in Rimouski, and I had a chat at Craft NS in the fall...she wants to go zero waste..and I love waste...perfect match. Anyways, I hooked 12, 6 x 9" rugs and they are on her site...part of the funds will be going to her new workshop..check it out.
#zerowaste #supportartists

https://laruchequebec.com/projet/nouvel-atelier-textile-pour-pascale-faubert-6512/?fbclid=IwAR1TIKn-v1hk9zsHyheTw1E63MWvLZV1y2KycWEE2Wc7TtSCbsFgrdk3Mvo 

Snow

The snow..she fell.
And made everything right purty lookin.

The happy place.

Studio/rughooking room/safe haven

RIP Sobeys Bag

A few words.

I won't be seeing you fly down the street or stuck in a tree.
You won't be lining my garbage container or in my car in case someone barfs. I won't be sticking you in my luggage for laundry or using you to hold my receipts for taxes.
Most importantly you won't be in the ocean or the landfill..bravo Sobeys.
Note: 6 Sobey's bags, a Dollarama bag were used in the making of this hooking.

#RIPSOBEYSBAG

A lot to do.

I have a few shows I am getting ready for so the studio is a fun, chaotic mess.

Pascale Faubert

I am going to be shipping these little fellas off to Quebec this week. Pascale Faubert is a lovely textile designer I met last fall and she gave me some of her scrap material and I made some rugs. They will be up on her website for sale in I believe mid-February. https://pascalefaubert.com/
#zerowaste #collaboration

New Beginnings

Some pics from "New Beginnings"...show is on till Jan 29th at the Marigold Centre, Truro....great opening ....thanks so much to all.

New Beginnings

Please join us for the Opening Reception, January 10th at 6:00pm.

Marigold Centre, Truro.

With a new year, like everyday, there are opportunities for new beginnings.

Art can move us to think differently, escape, evaluate and open ourselves up. Even if we don't "understand" art, the mere looking can impact us in the most subtle ways. By viewing we are changed.



Participating Artists:

Miya Turnbull
Mark Hamilton
Shauna MacLeod
Judith Newman
Anthony Clementi
Alan Syliboy
Brandt Eisner
Heather Waugh Pitts
Laura Kenney
Lee Cripps
Al Hattie

Snowed in.

We are snowed in but I think I will survive.

The house is hers again.

And off they went back to school and work....and the house became hers again.
#cartwheeltime #ilovethembutilovemyquietrugtimetoo