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- 1. Digital Communities of Contemporary Craft, Healing & Sensory Engagement Courtney Lee Weida (*hand*craft)
- 2. International Fiber Collaborative www.internationalfibercollaborative.com
- 3. Craft and Tactility, Caring *therapeutic and healing properties of soft things like quilts - associated with comfort, warmth, and protection. *Craft as a way of life: Glen Adams (2007) describes craft as not only objects, but also approaches, attitudes and actions.
- 4. Alex and Antony's Panels, Photos by Sylvia Piza-Tandlick Costa Rica “ to make a lot of things alike is as exciting as to make one surprise after another.” Fiber Art Panels: International Fiber Collaborative
- 5. "Burlap Membrane" Collaborators: Aura Madrigal, Irene Chaves, Gaby, Alina & Carlos Chavarria, Alex & Antony Gonzalez Textile connections: Poem, story, artifact, picture, nature, expression, skill, challenge, composition, impression, material, touch, illusion, memory, movement
- 6. Qualities of Community and Craft
- 7. Carol B. Lovell Central Square, New York
- 8. Devotion Primary Extended Day School : Brookline, MA Teacher - Carabeth Connolly Kids first names - Ittay, Afik, Emma, Noam, Genevive, Raz, and Pradyumna Knitting, sewing, crochet, glueing, and drawing
- 9. Karen Rosenberg: Berkeley, CA Earth, Sea, Sky Wool, Silk, Misc. Knitted
- 10. Ren Vasiliev Sunset and Picnic Bloomflield, New York
- 11. Virginia Spiegel Byron, IL "Mother & Child" Hand-painted and commercial cotton, raw edge applique and hand stitching. FAMILY/CRAFT HISTORIES: “ There is reason beyond their monetary vlaue that we pass heirlooms from one generation to the next.” – J. Zimmerman
- 12. Helen Plaumer Manchester, England
- 13. Rebecca Wombel Lincoln, UK Crocheted VHS Tape "Flower"
- 14. Mindy Thompson Jennifer Marsh Lake Odessa, Michigan Submitted August 4, 2007 Hot Plate Mama Crochet/knit
- 15. Adelphi Book Arts Panel
- 16. My Work: Longings and Baskets Trying to put all my eggs in various baskets as an educator
- 17. Alchemy and Recent Works Recycling Media, Working Collaboratively, Inviting others to arrange the work!
- 18. Recent Untitled Works Working from recycled paper, working with themes of home, babies, and goddesses
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- My name is Courtney. I am an artist and a teacher. I am interested in craft and its impact on children and famillies. My mother is a psychologist, so some of the mental and physical benefits of art creep into my work and my teaching – even though I am not an art therapist. WHAT IS YOUR FAMILIARITY WITH CRAFT? This can be a great question to consider with your students. What are their previous painting experiences, what do they like about drawing? I actually had some craft classes as in k-12 and then chose to take more as an adult. Crafts as I see it defined online describes a range of works from embroideries, to quilting, to knitting, to hand-made cards, to crochet, to ceramics, to jewelry and so on. Sometimes we think of crafts as nice and polite, but there are also a lot of political crafts or works that are somewhere between craft and art. The image on the left is a pair of knitted silk gloves by Althea Merback in the permanent collection of the Kentucky Museum Center. For me, this speaks to how craft is about hand-eye coodination, about creating things that we touch and that relate to our unique selves. To the right is a collaborative work I thought would be great to show you folks in particular: By the Residents of the Pennswood Village/Woolman House–SkilleCare Unit, Organized by Karen A. Smith – Artist in Healthcare , Newtown, PA, Title – “working together / helping each other”
- I have always loved clay and ceramics, but I really got into craft as a graduate student when I came across this project. Basically Christo meets your grandmother’s knitting circle. The large-scale, cozy-like creations of the IFC might be compared to the ephemeral wrapped works of Jeanne-Claude and Christo, yet they also seem to have a craft affinity with products of knitting circles. Marsh and other IFC volunteers connect the individual fiber panels into vast coverings to wrap a gas station, a gigantic tree, and a NASA rocket. IFC’s community casts a similarly wide net: extending to artists, craftspeople, school children, college groups, and other makers working collaboratively or individually. The healing potential exists in being mindful of the environment, of gas leaking into our ecosystem, and questioning the role of petroleum bsed products in our own lives. Even while drawing upon the very tactile and hand-made traditions of fiber, knitting, weaving, and knotting; the IFC haptically utilizes blogging, email, and other digital networking to connect its global communities. Online dialogues, exchanges, and collaborations offer alternative spaces of education and cultural production, even while providing participants with opportunities to (re)define artistic identities and conceptions of past and present craft communities. Parallel to this repurposing process is the utilization of a range of recycled materials within IFC fiber work.
- In my teaching, I could see a lot of students becoming interested in websites like etsy.com and in crafting things like ipod cozies that merged technology and tactility. Above you can see Doherty’s Amigurumi - which are written about on weblogs or blogs and sold in online stores like etsy.com. Amigurumi is a kind of Japanese crochet. "Ami" is a short for the word "amimie" which means "stitch" in Japanese. "Gurumi" is a shortening of the word "nuigurumi" which means "stuffed doll or toy".” Other resources you might enjoy for looking at craft online include deviant art, the maker faire, make magazine THINKING POINT - HOW IS WORKING WITH SOFT MATERIALS DIFFERENT THAN METAL, paint, pencils? One possibility is an element of caring – that a scraft keeps us warm, a baby blanket welcomes a new human being into the world, a quilt protects us while we are sleeping, a sweater might remind you of your grandparents and simpler times. MEANING AND FUCTION OF YOUR PROJECT – quilt for homeless, baby shoes, etc. Versus painting or drawing
- SEE THESE IMAGES FOR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR MAKING IN A FEW MINTUES WHAT CAN PEOPLE LEARN THROUGH CRAFTING? What are some things that you learned? Motor skills Repetition Color Harmony Pattern Symbolism
- Sometimes a simple project unearths a lot of interesting concepts – one textile class found themselves making these kind of connections and topics: art can be like literature, like history, with all kinds of threads to trace and explore.
- Working collaboratively is an important skill – how can your ideas overlap with someone elses – sharing space, materials, concepts In terms of space, Krensky and Steffen (2009) have observed, “in addition to having a clear and empowering framework for interaction, a positive community-art experience needs a safe space that feels like a non-threatening and lighthearted social setting" (p. 27). This distinction of setting was crucial to my contributions as a facilitator and participant in creating collaborative works for the IFC. It was not the classroom time or space per se that lent itself to these endeavors, but rather out-of-school, after-school occasions and settings that were conducive to the kind of informal, knitting-circle-like gatherings of production. Try working in your seats, on the floor, even take a short walk in the hall today to see how working is different depending on the setting. How can you relate to this – what can you change intentionally about the space where you work?
- Art as environmental and social commentary – What do you notice about this? Remember when gas prices were approaching 4 digits a few years ago? The fiber project looked at abandoned gas stations – how they leach fuel into the soil. petroleum was used not only to get this yarn to the maker, but also to form the materials themselves. Craft researcher Bruce Metcalf (2007) has also noted “craft retains one crucial opposition stance [in that] the hand-made object is widely understood as the antithesis of mass-produced anonymity” (p. 21). Autonomy and actions through objects if not through space and movement – nursing homes
- Even with very young children, you can combine techniques of knitting, drawing, gluing – all of which you can explore today. What are some objects and images you can collect and collage through art?
- ARTISTIC CONNETIONS _ simple and comple Color as symbol – what is the color of the sky? What is the color of the wind? Start thinking about what you could represent through color and shape about home, love, healing?
- CRAFT AS SNAPSHOT – keeping a memory. Color and knit as symbol. A way of mapping a way or recording. Can you take a very personal meaning and think about it privately while creating a more universal image. Art can both hide and reveal as coping techniques.
- DOES ANYONE HAVE A RELATIVE WHO IS A KNITTER? Possibilities of exploring family histories… On a related note, Kathleen Keyes and Melanie Fales (2007) proposed art lessons that investigate personal family histories. Students can explore connections to traditional arts and crafts and discuss their roles within family and/or community structures (p. 25). Speaking of family craft collections, craft researcher J. Zimmerman (2003) observed "there is a reason beyond their monetary value that we pass heirlooms from one generation to the next” (p. 14). Those objects that we save reveal personal and communal aesthetics, indeed, a sort of familial curatorship. The identification of meanings surrounding these objects make them uniquely suited to contribute to the learning processes of students who are trying on the roles of archaeologist and ethnographer in order to better understand themselves and others. Imagine today that I am asking you to create something that you might give to a child, grandchild, or future young student/client.
- Communicating a message – craft as a sign. What message would you like to put on a rocket ship? ANY IDEAS? As Johanna Drucker (2010) has observed, craft can reconfigure consumption of its various materials: “possibilities for reinventing traditions of art making and of shifting the relation of critical opposition to mass media into a different key can be enunciated, one in which the pleasures of consumption are an acknowledged part of aesthetic production rather than a repressed one" (p. 595). In the IFC, there is a wonderfully complex interplay of materiality: of celebrating materials consciously, even while critiquing commercial and consumer aspects of contemporary culture. Take a minute to think about the stuff you use everday – your coffee mug, your favorite scarf, your bag – how might each one be different if you yourself had made them?
- Craft as recycling. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER VHS TAPES OR AM I GETTING OLD? In her book addressing artists and social responsibility, Carol Becker (1994) asserts, “questions need to be asked . . . by artists, writers, and intellectuals themselves - with a generous spirit of investigation: What is the responsibility of the artist to society [or] of society to the artist? How might this relationship be understood?" (p. xv). I think she’s writing about social responsibility, of sustaining our world and looking closely at the everyday stuff of our lives.
- HOW DO YOU THINK THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE? Craft as repurposing – gathering together old objects and making them art. As Johanna Drucker (2010) has observed, craft can reconfigure consumption of its various materials: “possibilities for reinventing traditions of art making and of shifting the relation of critical opposition to mass media into a different key can be enunciated, one in which the pleasures of consumption are an acknowledged part of aesthetic production rather than a repressed one" (p. 595). In the IFC, there is a wonderfully complex interplay of materiality: of celebrating materials consciously, even while critiquing commercial and consumer aspects of contemporary culture. As educators, we may ask students to consider such questions of personal aesthetics and politics of the materials and objects that fill our lives.
- Craft can celebrate old objects – here we looked at books and stories from our childhood and memorialized them in a collage complete with buttons that acted as memory holders, as collections.
- Has anyone ever used the wires inside of internet cords? Great recycled material – flexible, colorful, small. Percolating in my mind was ideas about creating baskets, putting eggs in one basket in pursuing a doctorate instead of other things in my life. I created tons of these almost automatically when I wasn’t writing, teaching, or in class. I wove them together into a finished piece. Craft crept into my life through things like this. And for me, this piece was both about anxiety over career and marriage and babies, and about the healing preciousness and gemlike qualities of school. More recently, I completed a research project about forest history and ecology which inspired me to create trees from recycled copper wire and recycled paper
- Here I created from recycled materials and clay – inviting my community to contribute plastic vitamin water lids – petri dish associaiton - and then to arrange the pieces inside the box. COMMUNITY AND CRAFT – craft often builds connections with others and invites people to touch your work, to impact it, to change it and to change you. I completed a research project about forest history and ecology which inspired me to create trees from recycled copper wire and recycled paper
- More recently, I have been interested in concepts of home, of goddesses and babies. These are some recent pieces from recycled papers – forms and emails and student papers, and from ceramics. It was my effort to make sense of a day and a life divided. Art can be about understanding a process, coming to connections.
- Make a list. Share with a friend Begin brainstorming symbols, mantras, and words. Translate to and images – can be very simple, very abstract. Purple might represent spirituality for me in a swirl or a moon shape. Build up a vocabulary of signs. Lay out shapes and images before gluing them. Try different arrangements. Step back and look at your idea from afar with a friend.