PEW 4--Angelica Werth--Nelson Grans to Grans Project
Angelika Werth has worked in Fashion, Fibre and Wearable Art. She started her practice with a 3-year dress-making apprenticeship; worked for Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, France and received a degree as Master dress-maker-designer. She immigrated to Australia, then to Canada.
Angelika has had multiple solo exhibitions including her Waistcoat/Wastecoats exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council in Edmonton in 2006, and the Brassiere Series at the Canadian Craft Museum in Vancouver in 1997.
Werth participated in invitational / curated group exhibitions in Canada, France, Japan and England and in the United States.
Her work was accepted into over 30 juried exhibitions including Fibreworks in Cambridge, Ontario and the Contemporary Craft in BC: Excellence With Diversity at the Vancouver Museum in 2008. She is a recipient of the 2008 B.C. Creative Achievement Award.
Most of the current work is hand-felted and constructed.
Her work is found in permanent Public Collections in the BC Provincial Collection, the Community Hospital Collection in Monterey, California, the Cambridge Art Gallery in Cambridge, Ontario and Shuzenji City Hall in Japan. Public commissions include United Churches in Trail and Nakusp, BC, Waldorf Schools in Nelson and Vancouver. There are numerous private commissions.
Angelika Werth is an instructor in the Fibre Department at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC. She also teaches workshops across B. C. related to Fashion, Furniture and Wearable Art.
Angelika has had multiple solo exhibitions including her Waistcoat/Wastecoats exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council in Edmonton in 2006, and the Brassiere Series at the Canadian Craft Museum in Vancouver in 1997.
Werth participated in invitational / curated group exhibitions in Canada, France, Japan and England and in the United States.
Her work was accepted into over 30 juried exhibitions including Fibreworks in Cambridge, Ontario and the Contemporary Craft in BC: Excellence With Diversity at the Vancouver Museum in 2008. She is a recipient of the 2008 B.C. Creative Achievement Award.
Most of the current work is hand-felted and constructed.
Her work is found in permanent Public Collections in the BC Provincial Collection, the Community Hospital Collection in Monterey, California, the Cambridge Art Gallery in Cambridge, Ontario and Shuzenji City Hall in Japan. Public commissions include United Churches in Trail and Nakusp, BC, Waldorf Schools in Nelson and Vancouver. There are numerous private commissions.
Angelika Werth is an instructor in the Fibre Department at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC. She also teaches workshops across B. C. related to Fashion, Furniture and Wearable Art.