Composite Landscapes: A Quilting Workshop With Lindsay Sutton
In partnership with Badlands Art Department
July 12
9 AM-6 PM | Drumheller
While enjoying the stunning vistas of Badlands Art Department in Drumheller, this workshop will guide participants through creating a mini landscape quilt with artist Lindsay Sutton of Henrietta Quilt Shop.
Sutton will guide you through essential techniques, including turning under seam allowances, precision cutting, and needle control to learn the delicate art of appliqué, a hand-sewing method that allows you to create intricate designs. This day-long class will help you develop an understanding of colour combinations, contrast, and harmony while you experiment with spatial arrangements to add depth and dimension to your mini landscape quilt top. You will learn how to effectively position your appliqué pieces, create movement within your design and achieve a sense of balance and symmetry. Feel free to bring your own template, or create a unique freestyle design during class. Throughout the class, you'll receive personalized guidance and feedback to help bring your vision to life, allowing your mind to relax and your creativity to flourish through calming and meditative qualities of slow stitching.
Workshop fees include transportation from Contemporary Calgary to Drumheller and back, as well as lunch and materials. Contemporary Calgary will reach out to registered participants to inquire about any dietary restrictions prior to the workshop.
Kindly note that participants under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by a legal guardian. Accompanying adults/guardians are required to register for the workshop and pay the workshop fees.
Contemporary Calgary is supporting this off-site workshop by paying artist fees to the facilitators and subsidizing the workshop fees for participants.
Workshop fees: 150 CAD per person or 100 CAD for students.
Workshop schedule:
9 AM: departure from Contemporary Calgary.
11 AM: arrival in Drumheller.
11 AM-1 PM: workshop begins.
1-2 PM lunch.
2-4 PM: workshop continues.
4 PM: departure from Drumheller.
6 PM: arrival at Contemporary Calgary.
This workshop is programmed in conjunction with Presence, on view at Contemporary Calgary until November 9, 2025.
About the facilitator
Lindsay Sutton
(she/her)
With a BFA in Drawing from the Alberta University of the Arts, Lindsay Sutton’s (she/her) practice spans multiple mediums and decades. Both a mother and a cancer survivor, Sutton uses quilting and weaving as part of her healing process. Her work has been celebrated in publications such as Uppercase Magazine, HGTV Canada, and the Edmonton Journal. Lindsay has been a returning artist in residence at Badlands Art Department, the subject of one of her three place-based quilts currently included in the exhibition Presence at Contemporary Calgary.
About Badlands Art Department
Badlands Art Department is an independent and multifaceted artist residency, studio and press located alongside the Rosebud River on Treaty 7 territory, the ancestral lands of the Blackfoot confederacy. Situated in the rugged Badlands of Drumheller, Alberta, B.A.D. is organized by artists Miruna Dragan and Jason de Haan. As part of our activities here, we invite artists to research and respond to various conditions of this unique site – including its history of coal and clay mining, continuing extractive industries of natural gas and cryptocurrency, as well as its paleontological, geological, and scientific significance. Layered with these unfolding ecosystems, B.A.D. fosters events and activities that take place on, or about, this land. We are committed to creating opportunities for community development between artists, elders, scholars, stewards, scientists, ecologists, and any others that are committed to teaching about, learning from, or contributing to this place.
