M5 group inspiration board

Our study shows that women's fabric arts/crafts provide important spaces for reflection, contemplation and individual and social learning.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02660830.2008.11661557

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/t-magazine/art/fiber-knitting-weaving-politics.html


"The renewed embrace of fiber might have something to do with our increasingly virtual world, scrubbed freer every day of human contact and face-to-face interaction. Textiles, in contrast, are earthy and inherently tactile. We speak of the “hand” of fabric, meaning the feel of it — whether slick and cool or rough and grainy. We speak, too, of the “fabric of society,” especially when it is unraveling."

Faith Ringgold’s “Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series)” (1988), one of the artist’s “story quilts,” with an acrylic-on-canvas center and a border of printed and painted cloth.

a cool textile
artist

Talking textiles thread - lots of different artist and their works, using textiles as a tool for socio-political reflection

Mark Bradford, with a work in progress, at his studio, in South Los Angeles.Photograph by Catherine Opie / Regen Projects


Technically he is a painter, but i found this photo and the background made of ripped fabrics really caught my eye.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/what-else-can-art-do