When I first heard the term “craftivism”, I didn’t know anything about it, until I looked up a definition of what could be. Art forms such as knitting and crocheting, can be used as a form of activism. As an artist, I’ve been discovering different issues that doesn’t have much awareness brought to them. For example, last semester for my art final, I decided to focus the different forms of sexual exploitations that were present during the pandemic. The articles talked about how throughout the course of history, knitting and sewing had brought women together and provided a tool for expression and had formed women that protested the rights of women. In the “yarn bombing” article, I, in particular was drawn to the artist Xenobia Bailey. Though there weren’t any imagery on her artworks, the detail that really interested me the most was how as an African American woman herself, she creates these exuberating works that expresses the overall spectrum of the African American culture. Though this is my first time officially learning how to crochet, I hope that in the end, I carry out not only the skills I acquire, but the movement that this art form created.
Craftivism
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