craft + activism = craftivism.

In 1985, I got 3rd place in a school art contest with the theme “Safety.” It was a painting of a policeman stopping traffic, and to this day, I think it only won 3rd place because it marginally had something to do with safety and wasn’t off-topic. Last Sunday, twenty-four years later, I picked up [...]

I have these lyrics on my desktop right now: I can sense it Something important Is about to happen It’s coming up. It takes courage to enjoy it The hardcore and the gentle Big time sensuality. We just met And I know I’m a bit too intimate But something huge is coming up And we’re [...]

I first started really thinking about knitting and its relation to community and theory when I was in graduate school at Goldsmiths College and therefore involved with the Centre for Community and Urban Research, headed by Michael Keith. During that year I fell in love with ethnography and Walter Benjamin and felt literally as though [...]

1. Weird things happen when you’re at your parents house for the holidays and you start looking through old drawers and closets. 2. After finding my old dollhouse, I decided that a tiny kitchen needed to be built. You can tell the actual size by looking at the edge of the alarm clock on the [...]

My words about craftivism were used in a definition of the term the other day for Planetgreen.com’s Green Glossary. Reading it has been making me think of the exact origins of the term when I started wondering about it. After kind of guessing when I started talking about craftivism, I looked through some old writing [...]