craft + activism = craftivism.

…To grandmother’s house we go. The other weekend I joined several of my cousins at our grandparent’s house in the North Carolina mountains near the border of Tennessee. One afternoon, when it was quiet, I took out my camera and took photographs of a few of my favorite things. I had a second to really [...]

Below is the most visited post in my archives, one from March 23, 2004 called Why Craft = Punk Rock. In 2004, I was living in London, getting my MA and had just started writing and researching about craft and community. It was before all the press and essays and was a true time of [...]

When I was in 10th grade in 1990, one of our assignments was to do a report on an artist, someone we admired. I remember that everyone else chose people like John Lennon or Jerry Garcia, and I chose Keith Haring, who I had read about in Sassy magazine. That was the moment when I [...]

The video below came in my weekly roundup of news from Elephant Journal. I think it’s made me love ladybugs even more than I already did. When I was a child, I used to squee in delight whenever I found a ladybug catching a ride on me, slowly pottering its way up my arm or [...]

The Just Work Economic Initiative works to employ individuals who can’t find “traditional employment.” They recently answered a few questions for me about the work they’ve been doing! Q: How did this all come about? A: Through our work as volunteers in the community we heard a common concern amongst those who regularly frequent soup [...]