ARCHEloft

Brandon Tyson

Graphic Designer / Laser Cutter + Wood Working Specialist

Brandon has been actively in the arts community since 2003. First focusing more on kinetic and dance based arts and eventually moving more into the maker/ creator field. Now he focuses on absorbing every maker skill he can find to create a comprehensive pallet of abilities to create anything he can imagine. Currently laser cut lamps, artistic displays and custom commissions are the primary focus of his creative endeavors. If you have a crazy idea of something to create, then this artist is the one you want on your team.

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MakeFashion

Wearable Tech Fashion

info@makefashion.ca

Since 2012, MakeFashion has been teaming fashion designers with engineers, producing some of the most exciting wearable technology garments the world has ever seen. From illuminated wedding dresses, to samurai inspired high-tech armor, MakeFashion strives to tell the story of technology through fashion, art, music and performance.

Once a year, MakeFashion hosts a wearable tech runway show and gala at Telus Spark in Calgary. For this very special event, leading wearable tech designers compete to showcase their garments on the MakeFashion stage. Every year, 45 Designers and Engineers, 16 hair and makeup stylists, 30 models, and more than 50 volunteers collaborate to produce the biggest and most celebrated wearable tech runway in the world.

MakeFashion has been recognized internationally as a world leading organization for the advancement of wearable technology, an industry that is proclaimed to be worth 53 billion by 2019. Being recognized as a world design leader in this emerging field brings with it significant opportunities for growth and advancement for our artists and designers. MakeFashion strives to foster, and continue this growth.

MakeFashion hosts many public and private events throughout the year at ARCHEloft, Makerspace and Canada’s first Wearables Lab. Our designer’s garments are also regularly featured at popular international events such as: CES Las Vegas, CE Week NYC, Toronto Men’s Fashion Week, Electric Runway and many Maker Faires around the world. Each major activity on our tour itinerary involves extensive public outreach, demonstrations, presentations and often results in workshops due to public demand. We believe strongly that all of these activities benefit the arts, as well as scientific and educational communities. This is the world of MakeFashion.

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Kat Marks

Designer – LETHRBAR®

Kat Marks is a creative leader in fashion enterprise and design. Her creativity motivates all aspects of her process – research, design and craft. Looking at the creative process both personally and objectively, she
constructs a dialogue between product design and the visual experience of film, photography and exhibit.

The Kat Marks label has a global reach and has been featured in several international publications such as W Magazine and i-D Magazine. She has worked in collaboration with prominent fashion professionals, including
photographer Nick Knight of SHOWstudio for her 2011 fashion film, The Karass. She was awarded an International Design Award for her collection The Braces in 2009, and shortlisted for both the International Talent Support Award 2011 and the Creative Enterprise Award 2012.

Kat Marks is originally from Calgary, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Fashion Design from Toronto’s Ryerson University and a Master of Arts in Fashion Artefact from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, UK.

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World of Red Sands Alien Art Exhibition

Opens May 8, 7 – 10pm

Exhibit May 8 – June 5

The World of Red Sands Alien Art Exhibit will be a collection of highly detailed and lifelike figurative sculpture based on the life forms of a distant world created by Cameron Farn. Taken straight from his imaginative mind and presented as large scale busts and full scale figures they will appear in the exhibit with their design illustrations, paintings, props and Images of the development of the life-forms including écorchés (anatomy and muscle studies).

Cameron Farn, a prolific designer and digital/traditional sculptor, began the work as a way to visualize the characters and their place in his world while story notes were being penned for a future novelization. Some of the life-forms were of such an unusual design they required deeper anatomical study and development to understand just how they might have evolved to survive in the environment being described in the written work. As the story concept has grown the cast of digital sculptures has expanded to nearly thirty unique species, which are now ready to go to the next stage of production.

Red Sands has evolved from a story concept into an otherworldly art experience based on anatomical study and the use of what Cameron calls creative reasoning. The project when complete will open in Calgary but is designed to be toured as a special event to distant locations including conventions, gallery showings and educational venues such as science centers, to allow as many interested and enthusiastic alien art lovers to enjoy not only the spectacle, but the work taken to create it.

The character busts and figures are first created as digital sculpture in the academy award winning software called ZBrush. Each is meticulously formed and detailed, and then are milled using computer navigated cutting machinery (CNC). Milling materials and CNC time have been generously donated by F&D Scene Changes Ltd and will allow Cameron to mill the busts at approximately 5′ tall while the full size figures will be milled at their natural scale, some ranging from 4′ to 10’ tall. Each of the characters are sculpted to include wrinkles and pores, and every imaginable detail is supported by hand crafted finish and paint work.

The exhibit is centered around the presentation of the large scale busts and figures, but the characters need context to draw the viewer into the story and so each will be outfitted to survive in their environment with appropriate tools, weapons and gear which helps ground them to a way of life and firmly sets them in the World of the Red Sands as a fully realized living being.

Artwork available for purchase.

Autumn Skye Art Exhibition

Artist statement and bio:

“My purpose is to create. In that process I find stillness and rhythm, my teacher and passion. With intention, I aim to share honesty and awakening; to celebrate this fantastic adventure; to inspire and be inspired. Each canvas takes me on a journey, and as my paintbrush follows, each time I am lead back to my center.

In this shifting and challenging Time, I feel a deep stirring, a potent blossoming of creativity. It is all around us, gaining momentum and strength; in our own lives, in those of our family and community, and in the collective experience. It is our divine duty to create and share inspiration, especially at this time of change. As we honor our own personal creativity, we contribute vitally to the whole. We inspire those around us to celebrate, we empower them to create, we manifest visual mirrors to the light, divinity, and potential of each viewer.

As in any art form, as we release judgment, silence our mind, breathe deep into the process, and find bliss in each step; we realize that we are boundlessly assisted in our authentic and heart-centered expression. We step out of the way. We realize that the Art is not born of us, but through us, and in this understanding we are humbled, yet profoundly empowered. Each creation is an offering: a positive reflection of ourselves and humanity, a celebration of evolving consciousness, an opportunity for healing and deepening, a vision of a bright future and Now.

May my paintings be a mirror, a reflection of your universal light, your human essence, and your timeless divinity.”

All pieces are available for purchase.