Exhibition Resources for "Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues"
On Surveillance and Incarceration
Read
- Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood
- On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
- Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
See
- Jesse Krimes: American Rendition
- Artist Elizabeth Duffy on Wallpaper Printing
- Prison Map
- “Flint Town” – Netflix series
- Elizabeth Duffy’s “Maximum Security” Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Organizations
On Race and Cultural Identities
Read
- Ancient Practice of Textile Art and How It Continues to Reinvent Itself, by Sara Barnes and Margherita Cole
See
- Return of the Bees (2019) – about the Freedom Quilt Bees origin and the coop members still alive to tell the story
On Queer Identity, Gender and Sexuality
Read
- My 1980s and Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum
- Nan Goldin: The Fabulous Drag Queens Who Launched My Career in Picture
- Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
- Contemporary Feminism: Art Practice, Theory, and Activism–An Intergenerational Perspective by Mira Schor, Emma Amos, Susan Bee, Johanna Drucker, María Fernández, Amelia Jones, Shirley Kaneda, Helen Molesworth, Howardena Pindell, Collier Schorr, Faith Wilding
- One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
- How AIDS Remained an Unspoken But Deadly Epidemic for Years, by Joseph Bennington Castro, 2020, History.com
See
- A dog running. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
- Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC 1991 by Nan Goldin
- Accident (excerpt) by Jules Engel
Visit
- AIDS Memorial Quilt
- The AIDS Epidemic in the US, 1981 – early 1990s, Center for Disease Control and the Smithsonian
On Community, Work and Reuse
Read
- World Quilts: The 1971 Story
- Cloth that Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space, digital exhibit and good read
- Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change by Lauren Applebaum
- The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
- The Scrap Exchange, on the culture and prioritization of reuse in the art community
- Fiberart International 2022
- One Hundred Knuckled Fist by Dustin M. Hoffman
- Air Guitar ARTBOOK a book of essays by Dave Hickey
- Good Bones by Maggie Smith
See
- Rejected 3000 Killed by William E. Jones
Projects