Today we are featuring Jennifer Allison from Art & Sole Academy to talk shoe business! What is your background? How did you make your way to the world of shoemaking? I initially studied Fashion Design at Ryerson University and during this time my specialty was evening wear. The thought of designing footwear had never crossed […]
Shoe Business: Marisa Lawson from Knock Your Socks Off
We are checking in with our friends in local shoe-related businesses to find out how they got interested in shoes (or socks!), where the journey running a niche business has taken them, and what the future holds in a post COVID19 world. Marisa LAWSON ~ Knock Your Socks Off (KYSO) What is your background? What […]
Shoe Business: dr. Liza Shoes
We are checking in with our friends in local shoe-related businesses to find out how they got interested in shoes, where the journey running a niche business has taken them, and what the future holds in a post COVID19 world. Sheila Knox, Head of Education and Programs poses the questions. Dr. Liza Egbogah ~ dr. […]
Shoe Business: Q&A with Jeff Churchill
We are checking in with our friends in shoe-related businesses to find out how they got interested in shoes, where the journey running a niche business has taken them, and what the future holds in a post COVID19 world. Sheila Knox, Head of Education and Programs poses the questions. Jeff Churchill ~ Jitterbug Boy Original […]
Instagram Live Recap with Ron Wood
Thank you so much to everyone who tuned into our first Instagram Live! In case you missed it, our Creative Director & Senior Curator, Elizabeth Semmelhack had a fun chat with photographer, Ron Wood. Wood is a photographer and professor at OCAD University that has been working with the Bata Shoe Museum for years and […]
Throwback to Lunching with John and Ruth Fluevog
By Sarah Beam-Borg – Exhibition Manager and Assistant Curator Popular opinion and Hollywood movies tend to box museum work into two very disparate categories. The field is thought to either be hopelessly boring and dusty, or tremendously glamorous and exciting. Like many professions the reality is of course somewhere in the middle of the two […]