'Stitch By Stitch convening and exhibition rediscovers connection between craft and activism.' | booksnotboys
“Quilting has a really incredible radical history,” Wallis says. “They were always this tool. They’re about extending care, about expressing love. And I think both then and now they’ve been a tool that movements have been able to use to expand that circle of care to people who have been excluded or marginalized from it in many parts of society.
“When you make a quilt you’re making it for someone,” Talwar adds. “Whether they are about memorializing someone, about a birth, or about a death, they’re invested in memory. The material memory piece of that is really critical.”, are the perfect embodiment of that idea. In her series, she depicts people who were tortured by former Chicago police commander Jon Burge and who remain incarcerated.
For the conference organizers, Chicago was a perfect fit for such a conversation. “This conference couldn’t really have happened any place other than Chicago,” Wallis says. “Chicago has this rich—not only abolitionist tradition, but also arts tradition.” Much of the three-day event will take place at SAIC , with a keynote by Burge kicking things off on Friday. While the event features traditional conference elements, such as panel discussions and workshops—it is not solely rooted in academics. Presenters include scholars as well as early career artists and practitioners. And unlike many academic conferences, all presenters were paid, the fee to attend is sliding scale, and childcare is available for all participants, as is a self care room.
“We really wanted this to be a space where a lot of different people were in conversation with each other,” Wallis says. The organizers want there to be as few barriers to entry as possible. To that end, they are also offering off-site programming, open to anyone in the community. On Saturday night, an exhibition organized by Plummer will open at Weinberg/Newton Gallery.
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