Current teacher at Place des Arts (2024/2025 season)
Biography
Catherine Dumaine has an Associated Arts Degree in Fashion Design and worked in the local garment industry for over a decade. She now is a fibre artist living and working in Port Coquitlam, B.C. She has been teaching in art centres and institutions around the Lower Mainland and in local schools since 2007. Catherine’s fibre arts classes for children are among Place des Arts’ most popular programs, and she is also a regular camp teacher, where she offers a variety of fibre arts classes to children and youth. Catherine’s work has been exhibited in shows locally including Place des Arts, in the Port Moody Festival of the Arts and at Leigh Square Community Arts Village. She also served as the curator for Craft year 2007 exhibit Au Naturel. Catherine has led community engagement workshops for Place des Arts, both at the centre and as a Place des Arts representative at external community events. In 2013, she helped Place des Arts celebrate our 40th Anniversary with her community engagement Social Fabric Project, and in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 as an artist in residence, she engaged thousands of school students to create lantern installations that were unveiled during our annual winter season event. Catherine is an active member of the Coquitlam Weavers Guild acting as their exhibit coordinator and continues to advance her skills through the multitude of fibre arts workshops she takes each year.
Artist Statement
This hand woven blanket is a tried and true pattern I have done many times and enjoy making again and again.
The tea towel is done in Summer and Winter weave, a new technique for me. The Coquitlam Weavers Guild has looms set up with patterns for members to try their hand at. I enjoyed learning something new and after a few less than perfect samples I began to understand the technique and was able to come up with my own take on it.