Textiles from Home:
Program Overview
Details of events and registration links are available on the Program Schedule page. If they do not appear yet, they will very soon!
Please note: All times listed are Central Daylight Time. The United States begins Daylight Savings Time on 14 March, but many other countries around the globe do not, so please check carefully what the corresponding time is where you live, as the time differences this week may be different than usual. http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc (Use either Americas/Chicago or US/Central for the time on the program and then convert to wherever you are!)
Sunday 14 March: Daily Theme: Mending
11am-12noon CDT: Mending Practices
*Lewis Scott, The Personal [Class] Politics of Mending
*Angela Maddock, In Kind: A Dialogue on Repair
12noon-1:30pm CDT: Mend-A-Long and Group Discussion (limited numbers)
*Hosted by Sam Comerford and Addison Nace
Monday 15 March: Daily Theme: Education
9am-10:30am CDT: Embroidery in Isolation: A Panel Discussion with Degree Students from the Royal School of Needlework
*Hosted by Amy Hare
11am-12:30pm CDT: Textile Education and Meanings of Home
*Noga Bernstein, Localism in the Making at the New Bezalel's Textile Department
*Nichola Burton, Designing Machine-made Nottingham Lace at Home
*Sally Cooke, Home Sewing as Sustain-Ability
2pm-3:30pm CDT: Learning from Collections
*Grant Johnson, Domestic Aesthetics: Textiles and the Museum at Home
*Jennifer Lindsay, The Center for Knit and Crochet: Digital Strategies for Preserving and Sharing Our Knitting & Crochet Histories (talk and tutorial)
Tuesday 16 March: Daily Theme: Materials
9am-10am CDT: Cotton: A Conversation with Malkha
12noon-1pm CDT: Wool: A Continuing Tradition of Women in Textile Factory Work: A 21st Century Semi-Worsted Mill
*A Tour with Kelsey Patton of The Fiber Mill
1:30pm-3:00 CDT: Scottish Wool and Knitting Pattern Launch
*Alison Mayne, A Very Scottish Stash
*Alison Mayne, Launch/Collective Cast-On of The Peigi Anndra Shawl
Wednesday 17 March: Daily Theme 1: Responding to Crises through Textiles
9am-11:15am CDT: Responding to Crises through Textiles
*Rohma Khan, A Home Can Be a World
*John Chaich and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Peace by Piece: ReMaking Identities at Home
*Joanna Dermenjian, Choosing to Sew: How Women Use Sewing to Respond to Disruption
*Tania Pérez Bustos and Isabel Gonzalez Arango, Making Textiles to Invent Life in the Middle of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Wednesday 17 March: Daily Theme 2: Families
1pm-2pm CDT: Making Textiles with Family
*Emily Popp and Leo Hain, Necessity is the Mother of Collaboration
*Suzann Thompson, Round and Round in the Art, Craft, and Culture of Doilies
2pm-3:30pm CDT: Children at Home in the Archives: A Virtual Collection Visit/Workshop (limited numbers)
*Hosted by Sarah Carter and Sam Comerford
4pm-6pm CDT: Future Heirlooms: A Making Workshop (limited numbers)
*Hosted by Sasha de Koninck, Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology
Thursday 18 March: Daily Theme: Art, History, Culture
4pm-5:15pm CDT: Ruth Ketterer Harris Annual Lecture, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
*A Conversation with Bisa Butler
Friday 19 March: Daily Theme: Landscapes
11am-12noon CDT: Inspirations from Local Landscapes 1
*Sarah Pedlow, Making the Global Local Through Embroidered Art Practice
*Lisa Jevbratt and Helén Svensson, The Color of a Weed: Artists’ Talk
12:15pm-1:15pm CDT: The Color of a Weed: Home Dyeing Workshop/Citizen Science Project (limited numbers)
*Hosted by Lisa Jevbratt and Helén Svensson
2:00pm-3:30pm CDT: Inspirations from Local Landscapes 2
*Jenine Shereos, Eternal Garden
*Beverly Gordon and Lisa Binkley, An Expanded Sense of Home: Working with the Natural Materials of Our Near Environments
Saturday 20 March: Day/Night: The Equinox Craft Sessions
Join participants for informal crafting and conversation.
Drop in during any of the following time slots:
*9am-10:30am CDT
*1pm-2:30pm CDT
*5pm-6:30pm CDT