Applications are open for Gather in the County 2025!
Textile creatives get ready!
Come gather together for one day only - Saturday June 7 2025.
Gather's modern textile market application is open! We are excited to be back at the historic Crystal Palace in Picton, the heart of Prince Edward County.
Gather is contemporary makers, small batch producers, indie dyers, collectors, traditional crafters and guilds working in the textile arts. We invite you to apply below.
Applications close Jan. 31, 2025. Successful applicants will be notified by Feb. 10, 2025.
Click here for Vendor Agreement
Click here for Vendor Application
Textile creatives get ready!
Come gather together for one day only - Saturday June 7 2025.
Gather's modern textile market application is open! We are excited to be back at the historic Crystal Palace in Picton, the heart of Prince Edward County.
Gather is contemporary makers, small batch producers, indie dyers, collectors, traditional crafters and guilds working in the textile arts. We invite you to apply below.
Applications close Jan. 31, 2025. Successful applicants will be notified by Feb. 10, 2025.
Click here for Vendor Agreement
Click here for Vendor Application
What's happening in the new year...
and in February...
Get Cozy Pop Up 2024
Where: County Arts Lab - Picton Armoury - 206 Main St. Picton
When: Fri. Oct. 25 4-7pm, Sat. Oct. 26 10am-4pm - 2024
Get Cozy Pop Up will showcase a selection of carefully-curated textile artists, makers and collectors highlighting goods from a wide variety of studios, workshops and farms from our region.
Think cozy handmade wares like toasty knits, chunky yarns, fall decor, slow fashion, vintage woolens, and more...
Announcing the Picton Fall Art Crawl! A new collaboration with Gather in the County and Radiator Collective!
A self-guided tour in Picton on Friday October 25 from 4pm onward.
Mingle, see art and meet the makers...
A self-guided tour in Picton on Friday October 25 from 4pm onward.
Mingle, see art and meet the makers...
GATHER with us next year - June 7, 2025
Saturday June 7, 2025 10am-5pm. Crystal Palace, Picton Ontario
Here's how it went this year...
GATHER in the county
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Gather in the County is a new annual market, taking place at the historic Crystal Palace in Picton, Ontario; an idyllic spot in the heart of Prince Edward County, a cultural destination made famous by its award winning wineries, natural beauty and diverse arts community.
Gather will feature an indoor/outdoor market providing our visitors with an exciting and innovative gathering of textile makers, small batch producers, indie dyers, artists, collectors and community guilds producing a wide range of handmade textile wares + supplies. Gather is a curated event by Bay Woodyard & Bear Epp, both textile artists and experienced event builders committed to showcasing the cultural value of craft and the rich tradition of textile arts through this new annual market.
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Installation Art
Find these artists at Gather in the County June 15, 2024!
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James Ridyard AKA Buster Corot is a queer artist residing in Prince Edward County. With a daily studio practice, Ridyard aims to create inclusive and accessible art.
"I reimagine the domestic and traditional by creating with the discarded and unwanted."
Ridyard's work was last seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2022) and upcoming fall 2024 at the Art Gallery of Sudbury.
"I reimagine the domestic and traditional by creating with the discarded and unwanted."
Ridyard's work was last seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2022) and upcoming fall 2024 at the Art Gallery of Sudbury.
Ink, coffee and oil pastel on discarded canvas drops.
2024
I've been meaning to tell you
Ink, coffee and oil pastel on discarded cotton drape panel.
2024
even in the quiet moments
Ink, coffee and oil pastel on discarded canvas drops.
2024
...something borrowed, something blue
Ink, coffee and oil pastel on discarded cotton drape panel.
2024
by James Ridyard AKA Buster Corot
table 4 2 is sponsored by: Slumber and Shine
Re-Claiming, Re-Membering and Re-Wilding
Re-Claiming the ways in which our Femme bodies are objectified and dissected by patriarchy and made invisible, infantilized and degraded.
Re-membering our wholeness, fullness, and beauty of our inner wisdom, and our intuition – We are all knowing when we pay attention to our-SELF inside -Sometimes it may be just a whisper and sometimes raging.
Re-Wilding where there are no bounds holding us back.
Textile Mixed Media Installation
By Supria Karmakar
Re-membering our wholeness, fullness, and beauty of our inner wisdom, and our intuition – We are all knowing when we pay attention to our-SELF inside -Sometimes it may be just a whisper and sometimes raging.
Re-Wilding where there are no bounds holding us back.
Textile Mixed Media Installation
By Supria Karmakar
Re-Claiming, Re-Membering and Re-Wilding is sponsored by: Gather in the County
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Compassion Tent
‘Compassion Tent’ is an interactive textile installation comprised of recycled fabric and pieces of supportive writing donated by the public. Discarded clothing and studio remnants have been used to make quilted walls, filled with many pockets. They hold contributed secrets, words of comfort and support, or stories that need to be shared.
A call for participation has resulted in many donations of words embroidered or written on bits of paper or cloth. Visitors are encouraged to find and read the words and ideas, like secret hand kerchiefs in the pockets on the walls and possibly leave some of their own. The tactile nature of engaging with this work is not unlike participating in a sewing circle. As new messages are left the dialogue will continue, as will the effects of the shared compassionate experience.
By Tammy Ratcliff
A call for participation has resulted in many donations of words embroidered or written on bits of paper or cloth. Visitors are encouraged to find and read the words and ideas, like secret hand kerchiefs in the pockets on the walls and possibly leave some of their own. The tactile nature of engaging with this work is not unlike participating in a sewing circle. As new messages are left the dialogue will continue, as will the effects of the shared compassionate experience.
By Tammy Ratcliff
Compassion Tent is sponsored by: Blizzmax Gallery
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Community Rope
in this precarious time, artists and community members came together to create a length of textile rope to hold our dreams, hopes & prayers for the future. hosted by shannon gerard & sara torrie, the community rope project was created as a part of 'a textile sampler' and will be on display at the gather festival. you are invited to add your own hopes for the future to the rope through your touch and intention.
by Sara Torrie and Shannon Gerard
by Sara Torrie and Shannon Gerard
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Community Rope is sponsored by The Royal Hotel
Body Coiling
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A continual work in progress, Body Coiling is formed gradually, using slow craft practice and household textile reuse. Triggering tactile skin memory, the fabrics are used as material signifiers of cultural place and personal history. These are re-crafted through deconstruction, braiding and hand sewing to form a one directional, endless, spiraling configuration. When activated by the body, the domestic object moves and writhes- it is biomimetic, even wild. by Valerie Carew |
Body Coiling is sponsored by Gather in the County.
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