Past Exhibitions

Explore our archive of past exhibitions.

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  Kind Words Can Never Die: A Personal Collection of Victorian Needlework

  February 22 – June 25, 2017

  Kind Words Can Never Die presents an extraordinary collection of Victorian needlework mottos stitched by anonymous women and girls in the mid- to late-19th century.

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  Katherine Knight: Portraits and Collections

  February 22 – June 25, 2017

  Portraits and Collections is the culmination of an ongoing project by Toronto artist Katherine Knight. Her multi-dimensional documentation of Jane Webster’s highly personal textile collection and its rural Nova Scotian setting examines the idiosyncrasies of a handcraft craze that was all the rage in Canada 150 years ago. Portraits and Collections is a Primary Exhibition of the 2017 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

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  Brendan Fernandes: Lost Bodies

  November 9, 2016 - March 19, 2017

  Lost Bodies brings a world-renowned Canadian artist’s work into dialogue with two of the country’s most distinctive collections of African art: The Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario and the collection of the Textile Museum of Canada. Brendan Fernandes offers multiple points of connection that draw upon traditional African textiles, costume and masks, gestures of Western ballet, and elegant, poetic dance choreographies within the museum vault, filmed in the archive of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

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  Community Voices

  January 25–March 15, 2017

  Organized by Susan Fohr, Education Programs Coordinator

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  Home Economics: 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs

  September 3 – November 6, 2016 in Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Home Economics explores the unique stories and histories that have informed hooked rugs in Canada, the highly recognizable forms of folk art with roots in 19th--‐century North America. Featuring over 100 hooked rugs from the Museum's rich archive of international material culture, the exhibition represents generations of artisanal entrepreneurship, women’s domestic and collective work, as well as rural development in Canada.

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