{"id":3121,"date":"2026-02-08T21:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amandarataj.com\/?page_id=3121"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:59:32","slug":"luster-mikromakeri-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amandarataj.com\/index.php\/luster-mikromakeri-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Luster Mikromakeri Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Luster Mikromakeri Portfolio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the portfolio to accompany my application to attend Luster Mikromakeri. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This sketch represents my proposed project of doubleweave tubes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In January 2026, I had an exhibition with Helen Kong (ceramicist), titled Soft Curve, Hard Line<\/em> in the DesignTO Festival in Toronto. It was installed in the window of a shop called Souk and Silk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wove three textile panels and Helen made three vessels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full project details, see the Project page <\/a>or DesignTO page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project was funded thanks to the generosity of the Ontario Arts Council\/Government of Ontario. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Soft Curve, Hard Line, cotton, linen, clay, (with Helen Kong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soft Curve, Hard Line<\/em>, concept drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soft Curve, Hard Line, Installation view (with Helen Kong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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During the summer of 2025, I attended an artist residency at Det Vilde Spinderi in Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to gain skills on a knitting machine, and used my curiosity about creating curves to knit a small work made from long curving panels. I continued exploring this motif by weaving curves on the computerized Toika loom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, I wove a basket, which, in a sense, is a 3d curve. It has the delightful symmetry with the other pieces: the Danish word for basket is kurv<\/em>, which sounds a lot like the English curve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much more about my experience and learning can be read on my studio newsletter, in editions: September 2025<\/a>, October 2025<\/a>, November 2025<\/a>, January 2026<\/a>, and (coming soon) February 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This residency was funded with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Untitled knit work, wool, 90cm x 110cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled woven work, cotton and wool, 48cm x 48cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, July 26, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Generation is a project from 2022 during which I wove fabric to recover chairs designed and built by my grandfather, Rudolph Rataj, for the company Brunswick Manufacturing, which was started by a Norwegian immigrant named John Stene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project was lead by a curiosity into my own family’s making and craft history, as well as a way to get to know a man I never met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full project details, please visit the Project page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project was funded with the support of the Ontario Arts Council\/Government of Ontario. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Generation, installation view at Craft Ontario, photos by Jocelyn Reynolds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Generation, installation view at Craft Ontario, photos by Jocelyn Reynolds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Generation, installation view at Craft Ontario, photos by Jocelyn Reynolds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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