Our Guest Artist: Chantal Cardinal of Felt a la Main with Love 

Our Host Artist: Carol McQuaid

Our Bar: Main Street Brewing

Our guest this time is Chantal Cardinal of Felt a la Main with Love.  When I say she’s big in the felting world, I mean BIG!  Her massive wall-sized commissions are breathtaking, and her giant womb-like suspended chair draws a crowd at open studio events.

 

Now let’s head to the Main Street Brewing and listen in as Chantal and I swap stories about art and life.  Spoiler alert; we each have a story about our initial meeting that surprises the other.  Love it when life works that way.  Cheers

 In this episode you’ll hear about:

* Our serendipitous meeting

* Studio life at the Arts Factory in Vancouver

* Her life as a soccer player, fashion designer, aerialist, massage therapist and artist, and how it all combined into her incredible felting work

* How she got started with felting

* Getting to know her ‘suppliers’ at the fleece option: “Every sheep is different. Tina doesn’t felt the same as Jeffrey”

* Spending 2 months in the Netherlands to work with artist Claudie Younstra on farmed art, flocks of sheep and dye gardens

* Holding felting workshops and lectures at Gronnengen’s Waste no Waste Factory

* Language study tips for prepping for art trips

 

 

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Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

* Felt a la Main with Love website feltalamainwithlove.com

* Artist Claudy Youngsra and the Waste No Waste Factory www.wastenowastefactory.com

* The Arts Factory in Vancouver www.artsfactorysociety.ca

* Vancouver’s East Side Culture Crawl www.culturecrawl.ca

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