This Long Thread by Jen Hewett
Celebrate the diverse work of people of color in the craft community and explore the personal, political, and creative potential of textile arts and crafts.In early 2019, the craft community experienced a reckoning when crafters of color began sharing personal stories about exclusion and racial injustice in their field, pointing out the inequity and lack of visible diversity within the crafting world. Author Jen Hewett, who is one of a few prominent women of color in the fiber crafts community, now brings together this book as a direct response to the need to highlight the diverse voices of artists working in fiber arts and crafts.
Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores the work and contributions of people of color across the fiber arts and crafts community, representing a wide spectrum of race, age, region, cultural identity, education, and economic class. These conversations explore techniques and materials, belonging, identity, pride of place, cultural misappropriation, privilege, the value (or undervaluing) of craft, community support structures, recognition or exclusion, intergenerational dialogue, and much more.
Be inspired by the work and stories of innovative people of color who are making exceptional contributions to the world of craft. The diverse range of textile artists and craftspeople featured include knitters, quilters, sewers, weavers, and more who are making inspiring and innovative work, yet who are often overlooked by mainstream media.
JEN HEWETT is an artist who works as a printmaker, surface designer, and instructor. She lives in a lovely apartment with lots of light and art, just two blocks from Golden Gate Park and two miles from the Pacific Coast. She's been teaching block printing to hundreds of students all over the world since 2014, through both in-person and online classes. Jen designs unique products for retail clients in addition to developing and printing her own collections. She has over 64k Instagram followers and is the author of Print, Pattern, Sew. Jen Hewett can be found at www.jenhewett.com and on Twitter as @jenhewett.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781611808247 |
| ISBN 10 | 1611808243 |
| Title | This Long Thread |
| Author | Jen Hewett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2021-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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