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The Stitch Artist Helping Combat Media Fatigue

by Rhea Nayyar July 6, 2023July 10, 2023

Diana Weymar collaborated with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to center the work of writers tackling economic and racial justice — using embroidery.

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The Miraculous Life of an Early Black American Abolitionist and Craftsman

Avatar photo by Xenobia Bailey June 15, 2023August 15, 2023

James Forten was a decolonizer, feminist, father, husband, and craftsman extraordinaire, an organizer, a leader of the elite free community of African Americans.

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Katie Shulman’s Delicate Dance With Fiber

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

If the body as a point of inspiration was once an innocent or abstract notion for the fiber artist, her more recent work can no longer avoid the body as battleground.

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What’s Threaded in Vegas, Stays in Vegas

Avatar photo by Lille Allen January 29, 2023January 27, 2023

Moving too fast on your commute, looking out of the corner of your eye one second too late, and you might miss HOTTEA’s yarn installations.

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The Tender Art of “Visible Mending”

Avatar photo by Rachael Schwabe May 2, 2022May 3, 2022

Repair Shop founders Rachel Meade Smith and Sam Bennett invite us to commune with the vulnerability of garments and to comprehend the fragility of our own bodies.

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The Story of an Experimental Craft Colony in New Jersey

by Ilene Dube October 26, 2020November 5, 2020

Peters Valley began as an experimental colony, eventually evolving into a craft school of prominent women blacksmiths, ceramicists, and fiber artists.

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The Transcendent, Spiritual Fiber Art of Lenore Tawney

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer December 27, 2019December 18, 2019

More than 40 textile works dating from the 1950s to her death in 2007, at age 100, float in the artist’s retrospective at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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In Northern New Mexico, Weaving Is a Way of Life

by Lillia McEnaney November 21, 2019November 21, 2019

The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center is working in support of a generative, living tradition of storytelling through textiles.

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Knitting Together the Experiences of Immigrants

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

The Immigrant Yarn Project, a fiber arts collective, crafts and sells knitted totems to benefit immigration aid organizations.

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Exploring Sexuality and Myth Through Fiber and Other Types of Sculpture

Avatar photo by Nageen Shaikh September 3, 2019September 3, 2019

While Mrinalini Mukherjee radically used textiles to negotiate the deep roots of symbolic Indian art and craft, her visual vocabulary sought independence from traditional roles within her culture.

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A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier July 8, 2019June 14, 2022

With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.

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Knitting Together the Beginnings of a Queer, Feminine Future

Avatar photo by Zachary Small December 25, 2017December 25, 2017

Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field reimagines the Museum of Arts and Design’s third floor gallery space as an artist’s studio for two, both demystifying the process of fiber art making and allowing the artists to dialogue with a curious public.

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Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
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Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

A founding member of Turkish contemporary art space SALT, Demir brings to NYUAD her training in non-Western modernism and commitment to global contemporary art and cultural production.

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