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BOOKS

Craft for a Modern World
by Nora Atkinson

A celebration of the Renwick Gallery’s outstanding collection of modern and contemporary craft objects, this engaging volume features unique works by artists including Matthias Pliessnig, Ron Fleming, Albert Paley, Zack Peabody, George Nakashima, Billie Ruth Sudduth, Michael James, Todd Hoyer, Patti Warashina, Kim Schmahmann, and Toots Zynsky.

Les  Artistes  et
​le  Textile
by anne-marie minella and jean-yves bosseur

Since the beginning of the 21st century, artists who work with thread and fabrics have made a name for themselves in the world of contemporary art. They are present at major international events and fairs are dedicated to them throughout the American continent, in Europe as well as in Asia.
The book evokes a number of artists who have taken up this medium since the end of the 19th century in an innovative and unique way and paints a portrait of creators who have chosen it to accompany their political, economic, social or ecological approach. It shows that textile art remains subversive: it erases the boundaries between fine arts, applied arts and design, between tradition and modernity. It highlights “peripheral” identities and cultures. By questioning the categories of “feminine” and “masculine”, it blurs genders and undermines conventions.

The Craft Companion
by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson

The essential how-to guide to major crafting techniques, including work from more than 150 contemporary artists for inspiration and projects to galvanize your creativity in every medium
No longer confined to the domain of the domestic, today craft is prized in almost every sphere of creative endeavor, whether architecture, food, fine art, or fashion. The Handmade Life serves as both inspiration and instruction manual for Etsy entrepreneurs, artists, and hobbyists alike―modern creatives seeking new ideas and techniques, and to sharpen their skills. Organized by theme and featuring thirty-four techniques (such as origami and appliqué), each chapter inspires with the work of contemporary artisans, one big project, and five project ideas, and informs with a short historical overview of each medium, design notes and things to consider before getting started, tools and techniques illustrated with a combination of hand-drawn diagrams and photography, and lists of websites and other sources for further reading. With over 150 artists featured and hundreds of project how-tos, The Handmade Life brings together information on a wide range of media and techniques into one essential manual.

Quilts and Human Rights
by Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson

Quilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all the textile forms linked to human rights activities, one form—the quilt—has proved an especially potent and popular form for individuals, working alone or as part of organized groups, to subversively or overtly act for human rights. Through a description of this activity over time and space, Quilts and Human Rights advances awareness of critical human rights issues: suffrage, race relations, civil wars, natural disasters, HIV/AIDs, and ethnic, sexual, and gender discrimination. Quilts and Human Rights pays tribute to the individuals who have used needle skills to prick the conscience and encourage action against human rights violations.

Textile Travels
by Anne Kelly

For those with a passion for textiles and travel, this is a dream book. Renowned artist Anne Kelly helps you discover fresh, creative ways for capturing your journeys in stitch, using exquisitely photographed examples of her own and others’ textiles. Kelly explores the use of maps and their iconography; the influences of different cultures, from Peru to India to Scotland; and ideas for incorporating traditional techniques, fabrics, motifs, and colors. She shows how to document meaningful moments and experiences in stitched postcards and sketchbooks—and even imagines venturing into outer space and portraying its beauty in stitch. And she looks inward too, devoting a chapter to artists whose textiles chart their own emotional journeys.

SOCIAL PRACTICE ART IN TURBULENT TIMES
EDITED BY ERIC J. SCHRUERS AND KRISTINA OLSON 

This volume is an anthology of current groundbreaking research on social practice art. Contributing scholars provide a variety of assessments of recent projects as well as earlier precedents, define approaches to art production, and provide crucial political context. The topics and art projects covered, many of which the authors have experienced firsthand, represent the work of innovative artists whose creative practice is utilized to engage audience members as active participants in effecting social and political change. ​

Tools & Talismans
by Liz Kalloch

Liz Kalloch invited 100 women to share a photo of their tools and talismans, and a few words.  Tools & Talismans is a story about how the things we treasure and use also hold our stories – rich, meaningful stories that share deeper tales about how we spend our time, how we share our gifts, what we love, and where we put our focus.

A Dream Foreclosed
by Laura Gottesdiener

Told through the eyes of four homeowners—a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a disabled man in Chattanooga, and a mother in Chicago--A Dream Foreclosed presents a people’s history of the U.S. financial crisis and the rise of a people’s movement for economic justice, dignity, and freedom from foreclosure. With power and humanity, Laura Gottesdiener bears witness to the ordinary people organizing their communities to challenge the banks and legal system. Their stories are extraordinary but the situation is all too common.