{"id":19148,"date":"2018-05-01T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/?p=19148"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:46:13","slug":"artists-illuminated-avy-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/en\/artists-illuminated-avy-loftus\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Illuminated: Avy Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-222qfg-dd02a000b73e9078061d3bae504d7165\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-222qfg-dd02a000b73e9078061d3bae504d7165{\nheight:25px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-222qfg-dd02a000b73e9078061d3bae504d7165 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Finding Answers in Batik<br \/>\n<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #17a46a;\"><em> By: Erika Serodio<\/em><\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-scaled-600x803.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-769x1030.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-1121x1500.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-527x705.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-450x602.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Red-Tulips-scaled.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>Red Tulips<\/em>, Batik on cotton, 2002 by Avy Loftus. This batik painting was exhibited in Ottawa during the Tulip festival, at the Indonesian Embassy pavilion at the Major Park. The painting was made not only for the Tulip festival but also for celebrating fifty years of Indonesian-Canadian Diplomatic Relations.|<\/h6>\n<p>Founding member of Festival Acc\u00e8s Asie, batik artist, workshop instructor at the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts de Montreal, ELAN Member, and soon to be graduate of Concordia\u2019s MA in Art Education, Avy Loftus is a passionate artist dedicated to bridging arts and education and combating bullying in schools.<\/p>\n<p>The table before us starts out perfectly vacant. As she speaks, Avy Loftus pulls out one piece of fabric after another, seamlessly weaving together the histories, struggles, politics and passions that have contributed to her body of work. It\u2019s not long before detailed fabrics and vibrant stories are spilling over the sides of the table. \u201cThere are so many philosophical meanings behind one piece,\u201d she tells me.<\/p>\n<p>Avy first learned about batik when she was a young girl growing up in Indonesia. She was taught the technique by her Indonesian grandmother, and the art practice remained in her life as a medium for connecting to her heritage. In her early twenties, she realized that the younger generations in Indonesia were losing touch with this part of their heritage. Avy found herself explaining the regional origins of the pieces \u2013 Surakarta, Solo, Yogyakarta\u00a0\u00adin central Java, where the art of batik is highly developed. \u201cThe colour itself is different from one city to the other city, and the cut, from left to right, or right to left, you know this is from different cities.\u201d Avy says that most young people \u201conly know how to wear it, they don\u2019t really know the meaning behind the piece.\u201d This realization spurred Avy into considering batik as a topic for education.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Avy was a young university graduate in Indonesia, working in business administration. She studied language, arts, and education for her bachelor degree, but speaking several languages made her valuable in the business sector. Language and the arts were elements of her job, but she says, \u201cI really wanted to touch the art side of the work.\u201d She describes coming to Canada as an \u201copportunity to go away from the business world.\u201d She continues to make traditional batik artwork \u2013 some inspired by the geography of her current home in Quebec. \u201cI\u2019m living in Quebec now \u2013 I put the iris as the Quebec local flower, into the artwork. The flowers, as a batik artist, we adapt with the flora and fauna that we live in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, Avy has rooted her batik in symbols and messages that she holds close to her heart, and has used her art as a mechanism for change. Her intent is to \u201cnot only create things; I would like to create something that could be useful. To have a meaning behind whatever I\u2019m doing.\u201d Ten years ago, Avy discovered that her daughter was being bullied in school. Concerned but also empathetic, Avy decided to channel her artistic energy into a benevolent mission: combat bullying in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Her anti-bullying project, titled <em>Peace, Love, and Hope<\/em>, has recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. Avy describes the project as \u201ca healing process in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message of non-violence behind the <em>Peace, Love, and Hope<\/em> project is deliberately local and contemporary and yet its reach has effortlessly transcended borders. It began in her own child\u2019s school, but has since traveled through North America, Europe, and South Asia with over 150,000 child participants. She tells the children in her workshops \u201ceven though you cannot travel now, at such a young age, imagine your work is going to travel around the world with me. Just imagine that your positive words impact other kids in the world, in other provinces, other countries.\u201d She encourages them to think globally, \u201cbut you act locally.\u201d Avy always starts her workshops by gathering everyone in a circle. Then she says, \u201cTell your friends, beside you, just one or two words &#8211; the positive things that you like about them.\u201d She asks the children to find inspiration for their work from positive things \u2013 to work on the three themes of peace, love, and hope. \u201cThen I give them totally white cloth. Totally white, just imagine that.\u201d Each of the students creates a small square batik masterpiece, which Avy brings together in quilts. These quilts have been displayed at museums, cultural centres, and schools around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #17a46a;\"><strong>Discover more!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avy.ca\">Avy Loftus&#8217; webpage<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow us on our new <span style=\"color: #17a46a;\"><a style=\"color: #17a46a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elanqc\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/span> account to see more of Avy Loftus&#8217; batik art!<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A new photo or video will become available everyday from <strong>May 1 &#8211; May 7, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #17a46a;\"><strong>See Previous Features and Shorts!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/2018\/04\/25\/artists-illuminated-shorts-kathryn-berry\/\">Kathryn Berry<\/a> (Shorts!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/2018\/04\/03\/artists-illuminated-fuat-tuac\/\">Fuat Tua\u00e7<\/a> (Feature)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Answers in Batik By: Erika Serodio Red Tulips, Batik on cotton, 2002 by Avy Loftus. This batik painting was exhibited in Ottawa during the Tulip festival, at the Indonesian Embassy pavilion at the Major Park. 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