fostering critical dialogue around participatory textile making methods in research and practice
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the Association for Art History's 2023 annual conference has been extended to 11th November 2022. Session: Participatory Needlework as Tangible and Intangible Heritage Memorarte, Chile, 2017. Photographer: Carlos Candia We particularly wish to encourage submissions that extend existing scholarship to raise new questions about alternative art and craft histories, notably …
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Exciting news! Three Stitching Together colleagues - Lorna Dillon (Cambridge University), Emma Shercliff (Arts University Bournemouth) and Rose Sinclair (Goldsmiths, University of London) - are proposing a conference session for the Association for Art History’s 2023 annual conference. Details are below and you can find out more about the conference here. Please consider submitting a paper …
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As a follow-up to the Stitching Together Study Day, we're running a free two-hour online event with the aim of supporting people with interests in participatory textile making activities to forge new connections for future conversations and collaborations. Thursday 3 June, 2-4pm BST (check the time in your time zone) Book your free place at the Networking …
**Update - booking now open! Click here for details** We're planning our final (funded) network events... Put the dates into your diaries! The Stitching Together Study Day will take place on Thursday 13 May with live sessions (9-10.30am / 2-3.30pm / 7-8.30pm BST) and pre-recorded content available via the website ahead of time. All sorts …
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The launch of the Good Practice Guidelines last Friday was a fantastic event – over 130 people attended, which was amazing, and we had such positive feedback about the lightning presentations by Catherine Reinhart, Lynn Setterington, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, Sarah Brown, Hinda Mandell, Mah Rana and Lindy Richardson. Many thanks to all of you! If …
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After many months of development, we're delighted to have the Stitching Together Good Practice Guidelines ready to launch. The guidelines are written for people who facilitate participatory textile making workshops and projects – whether professional textile practitioners, artists, academic researchers, people working within museums and galleries, community activists, amateur enthusiasts or anyone else! We generated …
Barbara Burman, editor of The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking (Berg 1999), recently got in touch and asked us to share her call for ‘sewing stories’: I am undertaking research for a book about plain sewing. It is often a Cinderella practice overlooked in favour of the more glamorous craft of embroidery and using the needle in expressive …
A week to go before our 21st August deadline... There's still time to send us images of your participatory textile making projects. We're designing the Stitching Together Good Practice Guidelines (more info here) and we want to showcase examples from the wide range of diverse projects undertaken by network members. So, if you'd like your …
On 30th June, Stitching Together co-hosted a Creative Research Methods Twitter Chat (#CRMethodsChat) on ‘Participatory Textile Making as a Research Method’. #CRMethodsChat is an initiative created by Dr Helen Kara, who has written extensively about creative research methods for the social sciences. The chats are held on Twitter at a scheduled date and time. Over one …
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The Stitching Together project brings together researchers, project commissioners, professional textile practitioners and enthusiast maker groups to open critical dialogue around research and practice using participatory textile making methods. FilmGeographies is an online screening platform and annual film festival that acts as forum for films made by geographers and about geography. We are joining forces to …
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