craft + activism = craftivism.

The photos below are just a few of the many photos online of political graffiti, click on the photo to go to the photographer’s Flickr page. Rome, Italy Oxford, UK, 1993 St. Petersburg, Russia Want more? *Global Graphica *Wooster Collective *GraffitiStudies.info *Art Crimes: War Murals *Graffiti: The Art of Politics *Torontoist: Taking it to the [...]

I just finished the piece above, which is graffiti of the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled spraypainted on the wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Leila Khaled was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It was a choice made originally to highlight the fact that what we may view through our [...]

Almost a month ago, I wrote about CODEPINK’S call for crochet and knit squares for a Mother’s Day day banner they were going to display in front of the White House. Below are some of the resulting photos from all those squares sent (I wonder if my squares made it in?), and you can see [...]

The United States observance of Mother’s Day is May 10th. Remember

“Knitting is a symbol of many things, knitting together things that have been broken, and our society has been broken… knitting is a symbol of hoping that we can bring some kind of unity.” (from the Northern Ireland video from Shannon Airport below) This morning I was happy to receive a link to Yoko Ono’s [...]