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Chantel Traub

Artist standing in a snowy mountain landscape with a large black dog, surrounded by evergreen trees and snow-covered peaks under a bright blue sky.

Fibre

Artist and Creative Facilitator · BFA · Class of 2011

www.chanteltraub.com/

Chantel is an artist and designer currently based in Calgary; she completed her Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in fibre with distinction at the Alberta College of Art + Design (now Alberta University of the Arts). She frequently collaborates with Contextural, A Fibre Arts Cooperative.

Her current practice focuses on fine craft and textile design, specializing in textile printing, dyeing, and silk painting and embroidery. Using natural dyes, she creates rich hand-drawn designs with painterly techniques. Hammering flowers fresh from her garden she embeds textiles with their joie de vivre and adds embroidery compliment their fragility. She draws imagery from our environment, architecture, and history.

Chantel Traub is a passionate artist who adores teaching art workshops, spreading the joy of creation and inspiring all participants in her classes to celebrate lifelong learning. She has been teaching art workshops to the older adults of United Active Living for the past seven years in a wide variety of mediums, from fibre and painting, to ceramics and more.

Block printed table runner
Colourfields Silk painted with natural dyes.
Alberta Endangered Species print
Tended and Wild Cultivated flowers hammered on mordanted Cotton.

Chantel Traub's Work

Chantel Traub's Work Teal table runner featuring repeated white fern motifs, displayed on a dining table with brass candlesticks, woven placemats, and dried grasses.
Block printed table runner
Chantel Traub's Work Two vertically hanging silk textiles painted in gradients of yellow, ochre, green, and blue, evoking fields of tall grasses and changing landscapes.
Colourfields Silk painted with natural dyes.
Chantel Traub's Work Textile wall hanging printed with illustrations of Alberta wildlife, including a grizzly bear, bison, caribou, birds, fish, and other species surrounding the text “Rare Animals of Alberta.”
Alberta Endangered Species print
Chantel Traub's Work Framed textile artwork composed of botanical impressions and delicate floral imagery in soft greens, yellows, oranges, and blues, with a small bee flying across the composition.
Tended and Wild Cultivated flowers hammered on mordanted Cotton.

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