craft + activism = craftivism.

The show includes real emails and texts Olek has received,

After seeing a post on The Dress Doctor regarding Grayson Perry’s exhibition The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsmen at the British Museum, I watched the first video below to learn more about it. Then, through the wonderful world of the internet, I found the video below, from the V&A with Grayson Perry talking about craft, [...]

In a recent newsletter for the Dreamrocket, Jennifer Marsh mentioned that some quilters from Gee’s Bend were donating a few panels to the Dreamrocket project. She notes in the newsletter that, “In 1937 and ’38, the federal government commissioned two series of photographs of Gee’s Bend. The images have since become some of the most [...]

[A quick to this, a day later. My two points in this are: 1. If people (those you're protesting against) expect A, give them B. When confronted with loud noise, people emotionally shutdown. Give them what they (those you are against, the media, the talking heads) what they're not expecting. 2. And do 1 in [...]

Whenever I’m in need of inspiration for something, I can always count on the past. And if you do as well, and you’ve never had a look at the Library of Congress online collection, you might want to. All these photos deal with craft and war. I love how of our cultural current definition of [...]