Handmaid's Tale as quilt as political statement?
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2avaland
Interesting! The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts has an exhibit coming up beginning today "Threads of Resistance."
http://nequiltmuseum.org/exhibitionsevents.html Scroll down on the right. I'd like get to the gallery talk but not sure I'm up for driving that far.
These quilt artists honor a long tradition of political activism that began with the abolition of slavery. Quilts through the past two centuries have spoken to many causes and have been a means of expression, especially for women, whose political voices were silenced.
“With this exhibition, we seek to address current issues including climate change, sexual assault, immigration, the refugee crisis, racism, and sexism. We take issue with the divisive actions of the Trump administration. Our art explores our emotional responses to these actions in the hope that it will encourage civilized, constructive conversation and, ultimately, better understanding of one another's viewpoints.” the Artist’s Circle.
http://nequiltmuseum.org/exhibitionsevents.html Scroll down on the right. I'd like get to the gallery talk but not sure I'm up for driving that far.
These quilt artists honor a long tradition of political activism that began with the abolition of slavery. Quilts through the past two centuries have spoken to many causes and have been a means of expression, especially for women, whose political voices were silenced.
“With this exhibition, we seek to address current issues including climate change, sexual assault, immigration, the refugee crisis, racism, and sexism. We take issue with the divisive actions of the Trump administration. Our art explores our emotional responses to these actions in the hope that it will encourage civilized, constructive conversation and, ultimately, better understanding of one another's viewpoints.” the Artist’s Circle.
3lauralkeet
>1 lesmel: oh, I love that quilt!
4lesmel
If you didn't click on the link in the Reddit post under "Apparently politics is woven into the fabric of the craft!" it's here: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40278684 -- totally worth the read!
5Lyndatrue
I finally went over to reddit to read about the quilt. I had no idea that there were places in reddit where I didn't want to stab my eyes (or the commenters on the threads). I may finally make an account, and look around. Quilting always interests me (even though I don't do it), but if there are quilters, there are other things too.
>4 lesmel: I read through the blog, and then started reading the comments. I remembered how terribly short life is, and that the day leads me elsewhere, and that it's more sorrow than I can bear.
>4 lesmel: I read through the blog, and then started reading the comments. I remembered how terribly short life is, and that the day leads me elsewhere, and that it's more sorrow than I can bear.
6rosalita
>5 Lyndatrue: There are lots of subreddits that are quite congenial and informative, and fun. I find it a quite useful place as long as I stay away from the general categories and stick to the subreddits that I have a particular interest in.
7primlil
There is a great book by Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch : Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine if anyone is interested in embroidery as act of subversion/activism.
Book blurb here:
Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. "The Subversive Stitch" is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women
Book blurb here:
Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. "The Subversive Stitch" is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women
8lesmel
Touchstone: The Subversive Stitch, Parker
Touchstone (should have done this to start with) The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood
Touchstone (should have done this to start with) The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood
9avaland
>7 primlil: Sounds interesting....
10primlil
I just went and had a look at some of the images from the travelling exhibition - wow some of them are pretty graphic but look fabulous. Did you manage to get to the exhibition?
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