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Featured artists:
Becky Striepe, Atlanta, GA
Vegan crafter and freelance writer.
Faythe Levine, Milwaukee, WI
Documentary maker, set-designer, illustrator, artist, writer, photographer, curator, and events organizer.
Heather Strycharz, New Haven, CT
Designer, teacher and researcher who loves to experiment with crafts.
Inga Hamilton, Bangor, Northern Ireland
Installation artist who applies traditional craft techniques mainly in ceramics and textiles to raw and unusual materials to create large, site-specific artworks.
Jamie Chalmers, Milton Keynes, UK
Male embroiderer who dabbles in other types of stitchery.
JP Flintoff, London, UK
A journalist who knows how to sew everything.
Kim Werker, Vancouver, Canada
A knitter, crocheter and sewer who is mad about making ugly things.
Lauren O'Farrell, London, UK
Street crafter, yarnstormer, and writer.
Leanne Prain, Vancouver, Canada
Author and graphic designer who also loves to embroider and knit.
LJ Roberts, Brooklyn, NY
A writer who bridges craft and queer theory and an artist who creates large-scale site-specific knitted installations.
Mila Burcikova, Oxford, UK
Cultural theorist, author, and designer dressmaker.
Otto von Busch, Sweden
Fashion artist, theorist, designer, crafter, and DIY demagogue.
Sayraphim Lothian, Melbourne, Australia
A public artist who focuses on temporary works of public craft, including sewn soft sculpture, knitted and crocheted pieces, as well as resin and found object tiny sculpture.
Susan Beal, Portland, OR
A multi-talented crafter who especially likes to sew, quilt, and embroider.
Tarlen Handayani, Bandung, Indonesia
Book maker, knitter, DIY center organizer.
Interviews:
Carrie Reichardt, London, UK
A renegade potter and anarchic ceramicist.
Catherine West, London, UK
Founded and runs Significant Seams, which provides sewing and quilting based workshops and programs for community building and therapy.
Craft Cartel (Rayna Fahey/Casey Jenkins), Melbourne, Australia
Rayna Fahey likes to cross stitch provocative and thoughtful statements on any canvas she can: new, recycled, fabric or fence.
Casey Jenkins is a feminist artist, craftivist and rabble rouser.
Gabriel Craig, Detroit, MI
A metalsmith, writer, and craft activist.
Maria Molteni, Allston, MA
Multimedia artist, crafting participatory soft sculpture from hand-sewn inflatable shelters to knit/crocheted basketball nets; she is also a member of the New Craft Artists in Action Collective.
Sarah Corbett, London, UK
Cross stitcher and hand-embroiderer who also writes, lectures, delivers projects and workshops and loves being a full-time craftivist.
Rachael Matthews, London, UK
A knitter, stitcher, and inventor of magical fibre-related things.
Varvara Guljajeva (Estonia) / Mar Canet (Liverpool, UK)
Together, this artist duo has an art practice that aims to bridge craft (in our case knitting) with digital fabrication.
Varvara Guljajeva is an artist working in the field of art and technology.
Mar Canet is an artist and researcher who likes to write software exploring new ways of playfulness and expression, and is inspired by the digital age.