Dorothy Caldwell ~
Hastings, Ontario, Canada

Dorothy Caldwell is a Canadian textile artist working in Hastings, Ontario. Her work incorporates North American quilting traditions with resist and discharged dyeing techniques. Landscape is often the starting point for her work. Her travel and research in India and Japan has influenced her work both as sources of indigo dyeing practices and as places where textile artists share her beliefs in the integration of historical work in modern contexts.

Dorothy represented Canada at the World’s Fair in Osaka in 1991 and returned to Japan in 1993 to participate in an International Shibori exhibition and conference. In 1997 she received a research grant for travel in India to study women’s co-ops and the revival of kantha stitching.This research has led to workshops on “The Stitch” and the exhibition, Stitching Women’s Lives: Sujuni and Khatwa from Bihar, India.

She has been recognized by the Bronfman Award, given to one Canadian artist each year, and was nominated for the Governor Generals Award in 2003. She has executed major architectural commissions, and her work is in many permanent collections including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York,The Museum of Civilization, and the Canadian consulate in Bangkok,Thailand.