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Craft of cabinetry

On any given day, you can hear the buzz of circular saws, forklifts, compressors and various machines coming from the first floor of the Mill Building at the Cotton Factory.  Crescent Cabinet Co. Ltd., is an award-winning company owned and operated by Livio Passalent, one of the longest running businesses in the Cotton Factory, started by his father, Danny Passalent,…
Annette Paiement
15 June 2021
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JOSEPH HARTMAN

We have a number of works hanging currently at The Cotton Factory. A current favourite are the large scale photographic images on view by resident artist, Joseph Hartman. The works, on loan from Stephen Bulger Gallery are images taken in 2018 on Georgian Bay. Hartman’s work arises from his curiosity about the interaction between humans and landscape and how each…
Annette Paiement
21 April 2020
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A Cotton Factory Tenant Profile with Donna Hiebert of Donna Hiebert Design

Taking inspiration from nature, Donna Hiebert’s jewellery and sculpture work sees the complexity of some of nature’s common creations and preserves them through art, connecting the owner and wearer to the ever changing natural world around them. Donna Hiebert has been a working artist most of her life and conceives and executes commissioned work for both public and institutional clients…
Robert Zeidler
6 September 2017
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A Cotton Factory Tenant Profile with Sara Froese

For today's edition of Cotton Factory Creatives we bring you Sarah Froese! Sara owns a small letterpress print shop called All Sorts Press where she specializes in producing handcrafted high-quality printed matter using a human-powered Chandler & Price platen printing press from 1910. Combining the quality and beauty of antique equipment and traditional printing and typesetting with current design and…
Robert Zeidler
4 July 2017
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What About Wednesday Featuring Black Lake!

For this week’s edition of What About Wednesday we bring you Black Lake - a film and visual creation company. Black Lake has been at the Cotton Factory for about a year now, first sharing a space with All Sorts Press and then getting their own studio in October 2016. It’s not surprising then that Black Lake first learned of…
Robert Zeidler
30 May 2017
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WhatAboutWednesday featuring Romeo Crugnale of Feed The Social!

For this week’s edition of WhatAboutWednesday we bring you Romeo Crugnale of Feed The Social. You may recognize Feed The Social’s logo and have probably seen their delectable imagery across various social media platforms. TIP: Avoid looking at the photos when hungry. Being the pizza fan that I am, the photos just seem to scream “go, eat pizza now.” Okay...so…
Robert Zeidler
17 May 2017
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WhatAboutWednesday featuring Jean Johnson!

For this week’s edition of What About Wednesday we bring you Jean Johnson!   If you were one of the few thousand people who wandered around the Cotton Factory this past weekend for Doors Open Hamilton, you may have seen Jean’s artwork. Up on the third floor in artist Share Space 2.0 you will find Jean painting away. Describing her…
Robert Zeidler
10 May 2017
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WhatAboutWednesday Featuring Marta Hewson!

For this week’s edition of WhatAboutWednesday we bring you Marta Hewson of Marta Hewson Photography! I first met Marta at the Cotton Factory Winter Market this past December. Our booths backed onto each other and she was kind enough to say hello and introduce herself to me and my friend Brit. Marta seemed kind of like a rock star to…
Robert Zeidler
3 May 2017