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- Heather Prishtash, professor of English at Western Wyoming Community College, gives a presentation entitled "A Handmade Response to Sweatshops: Craftivism, Protest, and Critique of Consumer Culture." She discusses the history of the term craftivism and ties it to the idea of rhetorical needlework, defining both ideas before positioning both as important feminist tools in the material culture. Pristash looks at recent and historical examples of rhetorical needlework, pointing out the elements that make it rhetorical as well as the ways in which these materials were used as activism, focusing on "Wool against weapons," a project connecting two towns in England housing nuclear weapons with a single, continuous wool scarf to protest the Trident missile program. Pristash also explores the Nike Blanket Petition, organized by Cat Mazza, as an example of large scale public art and contrasts it with mini-banners created by the Craftivist Collective. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This collection is the administrative and event records of the Lansing Craft and Hobby Guild, which was formed in 1954 by a group of ten women. The collection includes board and regular meeting minutes, bulletins (newsletters), event publicity, planning for regular craft fairs which were usually held twice a year in Lansing, photographs, some correspondence, and membership records. There is only a small amount of material from the earliest years; most dates from the mid-1960s through the 1980s. The guild held its first fair at the REO Clubhouse on November 29,1954, and its second at the Marshall Street Armory on May 6, 1955. From that point it was moved to the Lansing Civic Center, and was the first organization registered there. For most of its existence, some proceeds from sales were donated to area charitable causes, especially healthcare-related such as the "Life-Line" service of Ingham Medical Center. Annual membership lists and a set of membership index cards include the types of crafts each member specialized in. Represented were all types of needle crafts, wood working, stained glass, doll and toy making, and a few more unusual crafts such as paintings on saw blades, or in one case simply "rocks." Photographs from the sales and events over the years show many examples of the members' creations.
- Date Created:
- [1954 TO 1998]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Craft and Hobby Guild
- Description:
- This collection is the administrative and event records of the Lansing Craft and Hobby Guild, which was formed in 1954 by a group of ten women. The collection includes board and regular meeting minutes, bulletins (newsletters), event publicity, planning for regular craft fairs which were usually held twice a year in Lansing, photographs, some correspondence, and membership records. There is only a small amount of material from the earliest years; most dates from the mid-1960s through the 1980s. The guild held its first fair at the REO Clubhouse on November 29,1954, and its second at the Marshall Street Armory on May 6, 1955. From that point it was moved to the Lansing Civic Center, and was the first organization registered there. For most of its existence, some proceeds from sales were donated to area charitable causes, especially healthcare-related such as the "Life-Line" service of Ingham Medical Center. Annual membership lists and a set of membership index cards include the types of crafts each member specialized in. Represented were all types of needle crafts, wood working, stained glass, doll and toy making, and a few more unusual crafts such as paintings on saw blades, or in one case simply "rocks." Photographs from the sales and events over the years show many examples of the members' creations.
- Date Created:
- [1954 TO 1998]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Craft and Hobby Guild
- Description:
- Heather Prishtash, professor of English at Western Wyoming Community College, gives a presentation entitled "A Handmade Response to Sweatshops: Craftivism, Protest, and Critique of Consumer Culture." She discusses the history of the term craftivism and ties it to the idea of rhetorical needlework, defining both ideas before positioning both as important feminist tools in the material culture. Pristash looks at recent and historical examples of rhetorical needlework, pointing out the elements that make it rhetorical as well as the ways in which these materials were used as activism, focusing on "Wool against weapons," a project connecting two towns in England housing nuclear weapons with a single, continuous wool scarf to protest the Trident missile program. Pristash also explores the Nike Blanket Petition, organized by Cat Mazza, as an example of large scale public art and contrasts it with mini-banners created by the Craftivist Collective. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection