Associate Professor, Department of Art History
University of California, Irvine
Craft Matters
Monday, March 15 @ 5 pm
Jaffe History of Art Building, Room 113
University of Pennsylvania
Many contemporary artists have taken up conventional textile techniques, not as a nostalgic return to the mark of the artist's hand, but to make diverse and timely political statements about wartime labor, process, and gendered production. This talk examines how artists in the last several decades use knitting, sewing, crocheting, and weaving to propose alternative economic and aesthetic models of making in the sweatshop era.
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