Your 2010 Staff

 
     

Becky Johnson
Coordinator / Co-founder

Becky runs the sweetie pie press and is sometimes a comedic performer. Around these parts she comes up with ideas, coordinates graphic design and builds this sprawling website like a little doozer. She is also in charge of everything now. Gosh.

Crafts of choice: 1" button squishing, pixel pushing, doodles, crochet, printing & vocabulary.

 
     
 
Tara Bursey
Group Show Coordinator (Love and Money at the OCC Gallery)

Tara is an artist whose work encompasses sculpture and installation, craft, drawing, and self-publishing. Combined with the fact that she's a neophyte curator, it makes perfect sense that she's the one organizing and curating our first ever collaboration with the Onatrio Crafts Council - a two week group show in their Queen Street gallery.

Crafts of Choice: food-craft, origami, embroidery, zine-making, crochet bastardization, weaving & printmaking.
  
     
 

Angelune Des Lauriers
Craft Lab Coordinator

Angelune is a crafter, blogger, and organiser who makes her own handmade line, Lunar Craft, and contributes to endless local craft projects. At City of Craft, she programs all of the workshops in our Craft Lab and spreads our gospel far and wide.

Crafts of Choice: crochet, plarning, hammering & micro-blogging

 
     
 

Jen Anisef
Co-founder / Group Show Coordinator (For Keeps at Cream Tangerine)

Jen runs the Toronto Craft Alert. She has also done a million other things.

Although Jen has technically now left the administration of City of Craft, she has come back to the team for 2010 to curate For Keeps: a mending show at Cream Tangerine Gallery Cafe.

Crafts of choice: sewing, fabric ogling, colour scheming & cultural context

 
     
 

Mark Andrada
Technical Director

Mark is a performer, comedian, clown and nice guy who currently spends the bulk of his time dealing with the whims of comedians as Technical Director at the Comedy Bar on Bloor. Aside from hanging all of our lights and connecting all of our cables, Mark is back by popular demand as the DJ for the 2010 show. He will also make announcements for you over the PA.

Crafts of Choice: trouble.

 
     
 

Roisin Fagan
Doer of Things That Need Doing

Roisin come to us from a successful run as a co-founder of the Halifax Crafters. She now lives in London, Ontario, but makes frequent mass-transit trips to Toronto to visit friends & suppliers. Roisin runs the textile-based business, bespoke uprising and collaborative textile project, repeat.

Crafts of Choice: screenprinting, embroidery, drawing, baking, pattern-drafting & obsessive e-mail checking.

  

Nicholas Kennedy
Graphic Designer

Nicholas is a letterpress printer, a typographer & the proprietor of Trip Print Press in Toronto. He falls somewhere between a crafter & a craftsman. See the shop's most up to date work at Flickr. For 2010, Nicholas is at the helm of all of our posters, flyers, business cards, web design, ads, circulars and other designable things.

Crafts of Choice: bushcraft
     
 

Shannon Gerard
Maven of Swag

A fine artist, illustrator, book-maker (not for gambling), screen printer, crocheter and more, Shannon is an asset in many capacities. This year, she is in charge of all things swag bag - printing, stuffing, organizing. You would be shocked at how large a job this is.

Crafts of Choice: crochet, illustration, screen printing, book making, zines & rugged horticulture

 
     
 

Kalpna Patel
Thug

Kalpna spends most of her time gathering twigs and acorns and casting them in metal. When she gets tired of that and needs to work with something softer, she crochets and accessorizes little bunnies that look like they hopped right out of a Russian novel. This year for City of Craft, she is the official Helping Hand.

Crafts of choice: Metal work, crochet, gocco printing, hand-lettering, anything that has to do with doilies.

  
 
 
 
Caitlyn Murphy
Program Designer / Illustrator at Large

Caitlyn is an illustrator who likes daydreaming and making things. This is her third year designing the program guide for City of Craft.

Crafts of choice: drawing, screenprinting & attempted knitting.
  
     
 

Michelle Renaud
Volunteer Coordinator

Michelle owes her love of craft and DIY to both her creative and talented mother and her 'why pay someone to do it when I can do it myself?' father.  She enjoys puttering with paper, glue and other craft ephemera and occasionally blogs about said puttering. At City of Craft, Michelle organizes and corrals all things volunteer-related.

Crafts of Choice: card making, sewing, cross-stitch and (attempts at) knitting

 
     
 

Sara Keller
Cash Bagz

Sara joins us all the way from the Rock N Roll Craft Show in St. Louis, Missouri. Having just emigrated to Toronto, she has come on board to provide some much-needed on-site support as well as keeping us orderly and organized against all odds over the main weekend. If you know where to get a good coat in Toronto, let her know.

Crafts of Choice: Visa applications and bundling up.

 
     
 

Leah Buckareff
Co-founder

Leah is head bookateer at the Coldsnap Bindery and leads the Toronto chapter of the Church of Craft. In her not-so-spare time, Leah is a heavy metal star, too. Historically, she has been queen of all logistics and figuring. It would not be surprising if she was called upon to lend a hand or two, even all the way from Berlin where she now resides.

Crafts of choice: book binding, crochet, paste sniffing & bass guitar.