Guest edited by Janyce Denise Glasper
… Issue Sixteen: TEXT
Category: Article
Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
“Home Is A Concept explores homes beyond borders through capturing people’s connection with each other and nature. These photos and prints are documentations of home as where I currently live (Vermont, U.S.A.), and where I am from (Suzhou, China).
… Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
Essay: Image/Text/Object & the BODY
Texts, images and objects – are all made up of animate and inanimate ‘beings’ that live inside of us as well as outside, and inside of each other like nested dolls…
… Essay: Image/Text/Object & the BODY
The Writing on the Wall: Graffiti as a form of societal resistance
Maria Seda-Reeder examines the concept of public inscription and its diverse manifestations…
… The Writing on the Wall: Graffiti as a form of societal resistance
My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum
Julia Mallory shares her series of capes, created to ‘tell stories about ‘tell stories about Black folks’ relationship to labor, leisure, and loss’…
… My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum
Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver
The relationship between text and textiles is writ large at this perfectly crafted exhibition…
… Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver
Janyce Denise Glasper Interviews Jade de Montserrat
Vibrant ecosystems of poetic making
Caroline Harris dives into the experimental world of visual poetry…
… Vibrant ecosystems of poetic making
The Confessions of Tracey Emin
Isaac Fravashi argues that through poetry ‘Emin’s applique work builds meaning that is both personal and political’…
… The Confessions of Tracey Emin
Curatorial Insights with… Naomi Polonsky
Decorating Dissidence’s Jade French and Suzanna Petot talk textiles and The Women’s Art Collection
with curator Naomi Polonsky…
Lorna Dillon on… arpilleras and the politics of textiles
A reflection on the MultiWeave tool
MultiWeave is a textile tool, technique and research project. The textiles that can be made with the tool are characterized by the potential to make sculptural objects. Matilda Dominique and Maja Gunn reflect on using the tool…
… A reflection on the MultiWeave tool
Poetry: Toys / Stripes / Closet
Poetic reflections on making by Aaron Decker
… Poetry: Toys / Stripes / Closet
Weaving through the traditions and techniques of rug-making in India
Looking at durrie (flat woven rug) weaving traditions across India, this article by Chandrashekhar Bheda finds an amazing diversity of looms and tools with varied pre-weaving processes, and corresponding ways of working on each of the different looms.
… Weaving through the traditions and techniques of rug-making in India
Teaching Historians with Tools: Toward a Subversive Pedagogy
What if we could tell a different story, Seth C. Bruggeman asks. What if we looked for inspiration in craft and cognitive science and object theory? What if we could write a history of labor and embodied knowledge that shows how skill itself is a survival strategy, one that we all share because it is literally built into each of our bodies?
… Teaching Historians with Tools: Toward a Subversive Pedagogy
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