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The Creative Zone, Luso Life

The Cotton Factory was recently featured Luso Life Magazine a magazine designed and written by Portuguese-Canadians giving a view of what Portuguese-Canadians find interesting. You can pick up a copy of Luso Life in CoWork where they are dropped off monthly, or you can sign up for their newsletter on their website. We hope you enjoy the article as much…
Annette Paiement
29 December 2020
ArtNewsShop the Cotton Factory

Shop The Cotton Factory: Artist – Natalie Hunter

Natalie Hunter is a Canadian Artist who grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. Her multidisciplinary practice is concerned with the transformation of materials, objects, and images in ways that evoke an emotive or psychological response in the viewer. In her installations, photographs, and sculptures, she challenges the boundaries between mental and physical spaces, time and memory, material and immaterial, light and…
Annette Paiement
20 April 2020
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A ZOOM DINNER PARTY WITH CHEF KEN LEFEBOUR

Join us for a dinner party in your own home, with Chef Ken LeFebour. In partnership with The Cotton Factory & Nellie James Gourmet Food To Go HOW IT WORKS: Purchase a Ticket for Chef Ken's prefixed menu on Eventbrite. THE MENU 1st course Coconut Curried Lentils with Blue Benedictine Cheese Main Course Lightly Blackened Chicken with Onion Apple Jus,…
Annette Paiement
17 April 2020
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Introducing the Cotton Factory Newsletter!

Download and read our newsletter here: Fabricator First Edition 2018. Featuring articles and interviews, the First Edition showcases HumbleBee Hamilton, Lori Le Mare of Hamilton Aerial Group, a feature written by Warren (CoWork at the Cotton Factory) + more. Join the Cotton Factory mailing list to stay up to date on all Cotton news! Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email…
Robert Zeidler
4 September 2018
Lunch & LearnNews

Lunch & Learn: The Importance of Visual Literacy

Art was our first recorded language, it transcended dialect barriers, and has a greater impact on our ability to understand and feel what is being shared. Sadly, most people today do not know how to properly read this powerful communication system. Our current school system operates under the STEM method, (Science, Technology, Electronics, Manufacturing), because that’s where the trade jobs…
Cynthia Swann
16 July 2018
HappeningNews

Shop the Cotton Factory!

You're invited on the third Saturday of each month (11am-4pm) to view and purchase the work of the artists, designers, photographers and makers that fill the buildings at 270 Sherman Avenue North! After so many of you inquired with us wondering when the Cotton Factory would be open to the public, we decided to make it a regular thing. Whether…
Robert Zeidler
20 September 2017
HappeningNews

The Hand of Craft Exhibit – Opens November 3rd, 2017

The Hand of Craft is a site-specific installation created by Shake-n-Make for exhibition at the Cotton Factory, which will open to the public on November 3, 2017. Large scale (8’ x 5’) aluminum panels featuring monumental line drawings of hands in various acts of sewing will be suspended from the ceiling and arranged to create an enclosed space. Within this…
Robert Zeidler
11 September 2017
HappeningNews

ART 2017 – Exhibit Runs Sep 29th-Oct 1st, 2017

Art 2017 is a collaboration between Tom Sachade and  Bruno Capolongo. Deciding to challenge one another, both Tom and Bruno have had to stretch out of their comfort zones. While one was challenged to reduce the amount of time spent on each painting and become more spontaneous, the other was challenged to do the exact opposite - to slow down and…
Robert Zeidler
11 September 2017
News

Farewell Quilt of Belonging

Thank you so much to the Heart of Ontario and to the amazing Esther Bryan who created the Quilt of Belonging. We are so grateful that the Cotton Factory was able to host such a beautiful artifact and it certainly livened up our space! Thank you also, to all who came to visit, we hope you enjoyed the experience.   The…
Cynthia Swann
17 August 2017