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Interwoven Mesh of Re-existence: Craft Knowledges in Puerto Rico

López, Maru (2022)

This essay is rooted in place specifically in Puerto Rico. From the distance of 15 years of living outside of the archipelago, I attempt to understand how the precarity brought by multiple crises has created a moment when ...
Learning to Dye in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism in Natural Dyeing in the United States from the 1960s to Today

Guthrie, Laurin Colleen (2022)

This paper examines how issues of environmentalism are addressed in writing about natural dyeing from the 1960s and 1970s to today. Using a critical lens of environmental art and art activism proposed by scholar T.J. Demos, ...
Spoons in Exchange: Carving Intimacies

Hawes, Kate (2022)

With the role of the internet becoming increasingly important to craft learning and craft community-making, my research on spoon swapping in a spoon-carving community points to how social relationships impact craft learning ...
"The Steadiness of a Demolition Expert:" Craft Skill in 1960s Eye Makeup

Lorentz, Kae Anne (2022)

This paper examines the relationship between makeup and craft, reframing makeup as a craft praxis and the body as a craft object, using the case study of the “cut crease” technique of eye makeup application popularized in ...
In the Fray: Black Women and Craft, 1850 - 1910

Goodman, Mellanee (2021)

In the Fray: Black Women and Craft, 1850- 1910, examines the lives of Black craftswomen from enslavement and beyond emancipation, suggesting that these women have been historically invisible within and outside of the craft ...
Sensing the Studio: The Role of Embodied Knowledge in Understanding Visual Representations of Craft Studios

Powers, Heather K. (2021)

This twenty-year comparative visual and sensory ethnographic analysis of fiber studio photographs from the archive of 'American Craft Council Magazine' (2000-2020) foregrounded my embodied knowledge as a craftsperson. By ...
The State of Repair: Chatter Marks Journal Issue 3, Guest Editor for the Anchorage Museum

Meissner, Amy (2021)

Issue 3 of the journal Chatter Marks, “The State of Repair,” published by the Anchorage Museum and edited by Amy Meissner, is a polyphonic and intergenerational collection of narratives revealing the craft of repair through ...

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