Books
Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft
This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. The book asserts that fiber art--long disparaged in the wake of the high-low dichotomy of late Modernism--is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.
Queer Threads
"Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community" spotlights an international, intergenerational, intersectional mix of thirty artists who are remixing fiber craft traditions, such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, and sewing, while reconsidering the binaries of art and craft, masculine and feminine, and gay and straight. Loaded with gender connotations and power hierarchies, fiber-based handicrafts such as crochet, embroidery, knitting, macrame, quilting, and sewing provide a fitting platform for examining tastes, roles, and relationships socialized within and around gay and lesbian culture, as well as our reactions to the traditional home and cultures in which we were raised.
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Transgender + Nonbinary + Genderqueer Fiber Artists
Interviews
- Interview with Indira Allegra (Pro Arts Podcast)
- Indira Allegra: In Conversation with Sarah Biscarra Dilley (SFAQ)
- Women to Watch: Indira Allegra (KQED)
- A Room with a View: In the Screen with Indira Allegra and Mariana Valencia (BOMB Magazine)
Articles
- "A Letter From Penelope" (American Craft Council
Interviews
- Interview with Demian DinéYazhi´ (Yale Radio)
- Artist Interview (Native Feminisms)
- "ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning)": Interview with Demian DinéYazhi´ (R.I.S.E. Indigenous)
- "We Left Them Nothing": Interview with Demian Dinéyazhi' (Broken Boxes Podcast)
- Interview with Demian DinéYazhi´ (Gender Reveal Podcast)
Articles
- "Remembrance, Indignation, Confrontation: The Art of Demian DinéYazhí" (Michigan Quarterly Review)
- "Poetics of radical criticality in the work of Demian DinéYazhi’" (iscp)
Media
- "A reading by Demian DinéYazhi' and Alán Peláez López" (EFA Project Space)
Articles
- "Remembering the Artist Greer Lankton and Her Uncaged, Uncompromising Dolls" (Lenny)
- "The Radical Life & Work of Genderqueer Artist Greer Lankton" (AnOther)
- "Greer Lankton, a Memoir" (artnet)
- "Q&A with Paul Monroe: Life and Work of Greer Lankton" (unframed)
Media
- Queer Art TV: Greer Lankton (Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art)
Interviews
- Interview with Artist L. J. Roberts (Bowdoin College)
- "Queer Artists in Their Own Words: LJ Roberts Survived Childhood to Champion Revolutionary Butches" (Hyperallergic)
- "LJ Roberts’ Queer Epics" (Decorating Dissidence)
- "Imagining the Impossible with LJ Roberts" (Queer Art Radio)
Articles
- "Landing Places" (American Craft Council)
- "Using Craft Art To Explore Contemporary LGBTQ Culture" (Huffington Post)
- "An Artist’s Embroideries Reflect the Complexity and Interconnectedness of Queer New York" (Hyperallergic)
Media
- Artist Talk: "Queer Strategies, Queer Tactics" (Bowdoin College)
Cis Fiber Artists
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Caroline Wells Chandler |
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Chiachio & Giannone |
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Sal Salandra |
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