This long thread Women of color on craft, community, and connection

Jen Hewett

Book - 2021

"Be inspired by the work and stories of innovative women of color who are making exceptional contributions to the world of craft. The diverse range of textile artists featured include knitters, quilters, sewers, weavers, and more who are making inspiring and exciting work, yet who are often overlooked by mainstream media. Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and profiles, this book explores the work and contributions of women of color across the fiber arts community, representing a wide spectrum of age, region, cultural identity, and economic class. These conversations explore the provenance of techniques and materials, belonging, identity, pride of place, cultural misappropriation, privilege, the value (or undervaluing) o...f craft, community support structures, recognition or exclusion, intergenerational dialogue, and much more"--

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Biographies
Published
Boulder, Colorado : Roost Books, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Jen Hewett (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
viii, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781611808247
  • Introduction
  • Demographics
  • The Survey Questions
  • Terminology
  • Why We Craft
  • Our Craft Origins
  • International Style Icon: Interview with Sonya Philip
  • Un Mantelito Blanco: Essay by Adrienne Rodriguez
  • Survey Profile: Claudia Carpenter
  • Design with Intention: Interview with Seema Krish
  • Learning Our Craft
  • Beyond Barbie Clothes: Creating for Who We Are
  • Seventh-Generation Weaver: Interview with Naiomi Glasses
  • Handmade Inheritance: Essay by Mia Nakaji Monnier
  • Making, Learning, and Encouraging: Interview with Latifah Saafir
  • Craft as Business
  • The Business of Craft
  • The Artist Known as Twinkie Chan: Interview with Stephanie Lee
  • Survey Profile: Stephanie Brown
  • Creating What I Want to See: Interview with Rashida Coleman-Hale
  • The Crafty Gemini: Interview with Vanessa Vargas Wilson
  • Survey Profile: Raquel Busa
  • Craft is Political
  • Quilting Depth: Interview with Chawne Kimber
  • Crafting a More Equitable World: Personal Narrative of Chi L. Nguyen
  • Survey Profile: Virginia Johnson
  • Art Made On and Between Borders: Interview with Tanya Aguiñiga
  • Handmade Past and Present
  • Braiding the Sweetgrass: Essay by Jenna Ruth Empanayv Wolf
  • Survey Profile: Soukprida Phetmisy
  • My Lola, Ming Guihama: Essay by Ava Guihama
  • Making Happiness: Interview with Youngmin Lee
  • Making Your Place
  • Traveling Miles: Personal Narrative of Kenya Miles
  • Embracing the Constraints: Interview with Windy Chien
  • Survey Profile: Lisa Woolfork
  • Finding the Answers in Embroidery: Interview with Raven Dock
  • Yards and Yarns of Happiness: Personal Narrative of Dana Williams-Johnson
  • Perception and Representation
  • Othering and Belonging
  • Race, Gender, and Craft: Plying My Experiences: Essay by Shanel Wu
  • Survey Profile: Aliya Jiwani
  • Misunderstood: The Real Value of Craft
  • Between Two Cultures: Interview with Jessica So Ren Tang
  • Craft as Community
  • Our Creative Communities
  • The Farmer's Daughter: Interview with Candice English
  • My Body! My Way! My Self in This World. Why I Sew and Some Other Things: Essay by Ebony Haight
  • Survey Profile: Kayla Fernandez
  • Embroidering Community: Interview with Shahnaz Khan
  • Teaching Craft
  • Survey Profile: Ellie Lum
  • Glorifying My Rest: Interview with Brandi Cheyenne Harper
  • Weaving Hand: Interview with Cynthia Alberto
  • Social Justice Sewing Academy: Interview with Sara Trail
  • Closing Meditation by Loi Laing
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
Review by Booklist Review

Artist, designer, and teacher Hewett (Print, Pattern, Sew, 2018) has experienced firsthand the erasure and discrimination rampant in the craft and textile world. Black and Indigenous people and People of Color have historically been and are still underrepresented despite the ongoing appropriation and theft of their cultures, traditions, and designs by white creators and companies. Knowing that she wasn't alone in her experiences, Hewett created a survey with the hope of learning more about her fellow women and non-binary textile artists and crafters of color, and of sharing the results in a way that also highlights the work of these artisans. The result is this thorough and engaging book, which includes responses to and analysis of that survey, interviews with individuals, and essays by selected artists. Throughout, it's clear to readers that the gatekeepers who prevent these voices from being more prominent are doing a grave disservice to everyone. The specificity and personal touches that Hewett brings celebrate these amazing artists, their voices, and their works. Readers will enjoy meeting a wealth of artists they may not be familiar with, and hopefully this book will lead to more widespread recognition (and books!) from those featured here.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.