qʷicčiƛma
The Centre for Retrofitting and Failure Techniques. C.R.A.F.T.
C.R.A.F.T.
qʷicčiƛma (the sky opened up) is how we translate this concept to nuučaańuł.
C.R.A.F.T./qʷicčiƛma explores and fosters contemporary arts practice with people of all stripes. We are a small, Indigenous-led organization with a locally-oriented printmaking studio, an outdoor garden/stage/gathering area, and a digital space with unlimited potential.
'To make things more beautiful and show ever greater respect.'
For ourselves, for each other, for this place, for the materials we work with.
Documenting our progress in annual booklet form until we discover a continuous way to share that doesn't exhaust and exploit.
C.R.A.F.T. welcomes Q Collective to its first Digital Potentials residency in Autumn 2023, exploring and prototyping digital presence in a complex, plural wifi-free reality.
April 2023: C.R.A.F.T. teamed up with Comox Valley Art Gallery and Plants Are Teachers to bring Wild Pigment Project's Tilke Elkins and Noel Guetti and friends to Ahswinnis and beyond. Over two days, we investigated wild pigments for printing inks at the C.R.A.F.T. studio, and held our first inter-community meal. Next we visited the Comox Valley for a collaborative presentation on Expanded Stewardship and a workshop led by Tilke.
Blockchain Study Group
C.R.A.F.T. studied the possibilities and pitfalls of web3 technology with a small diverse group through summer 2022. We wanted to know if these technologies have meaning to us in practice.
[ CENTRE ] To be a lightning rod and reference point in arts-based practice and research. To form, then document, current experimental practices.
for (Generosity)
[ RETROFITTING ] To activate the possibility of redoing, reworking, revisiting concepts and materials as a methodology for testing, building, making, and sustaining communities, practice and work.
[ AND ] Inclusion
[ FAILURE ] To approach risk with awareness, but without fearing unexpected results. To use openness, observation, and adaptation as a productive trajectory and test space into an unknown future.
[ TECHNIQUES ] To refine and integrate the practice of arts-based research, making and execution. To explore the [re]distribution of wealth through making-based practice. To be self-sustaining in this work.
C.R.A.F.T. is buoyed by many individual and organizational supporters as we begin. We thank you and look forward to sharing the ongoing results of our collective vision.
C.R.A.F.T. is a B.C. non-profit society located on Ahswinnis Reserve, Port Alberni, Canada. Incorporation Number S0073243.
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Board :
Klehwetua Rodney Sayers, co-founder & president
Michelle Jacques, vice-president
Emily Luce, co-founder & treasurer/secretary