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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
