Rosa Martyn writes: The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is craftivism's closest ally. A huge building filled to the brim with all different crafts from all across the ages, it rejoices in handmade. It was very fitting then, for the V&A to celebrate the art of quilt making across the centuries - and at its heart, not stated- but definitely present: craftivism.
The England General Elections are coming up and so we thought that we should have our April Meeting project to link with encouraging people to vote. We are lucky in the UK that we have the right and saftey in place to vote, most of us are not intimidated or bullied into voting a certain way and our votes are not rigged like in my countries in the developing world.
Craftivist Rosa created the patterns. There are 4 more that can be found here
The incredible artist and fellow craftivist Carrie Reichardt was featured in The Observer Magazine on 7th February 2010 in the Life&Style section. The article focused on Carrie's home which she...
Sarah Corbett writes: One hundred cards were left around Central London on Valentine’s Day 2009. Each contained an alternative Valentine’s letter, a handmade gift and a sweet. Hand delivered to gaps in walls, cash machine slots, shop shelves etc, you don’t have to be in a relationship to have one of these!
I did this project in Liverpool 2008. These are valentine’s cards with a difference: the letter is written from a person from a developing country asking for people to show some ‘real love’ for the unforgotten poorest people in the world. The card includes either a keyring or a badge in the shape of a Loveheart sweet saying ‘Real Love’ and an actual sweet.
You are cordially invited to join the Craftivist Collective at: United Underground 2, Southbank London. 5pm-11pm Saturday 20th February 2010.
We will have a 'Craftivism Corner' creating 3 projects all on the theme of conflict in Sudan.
On Thursday 21st January 2010 the Craftivist Collective had their monthly meeting in the London Southbank Royal Festival Hall cafe 6:30pm onwards. This time we joined forces with the beautiful, talented and passionate activists the Shoreditch Sisters (who are a Womens Institute group) to get as many people as possible to create beautiful vaginas to make people aware of the issue of Female Genital Cutting, 'designer vaginas' and the stigma and disgust people have for our natural organs.
Four steps to Craftivism: 1. Buy or print the orginal image in whatever size you want. 2. Deface the image with the above words (you can change the last sentence to include...
The Craftivist Collective now includes LA baby! Ellen Schinderman is our LA Craftivist. Ellen emailed me when I was wrote my 'A Lonely Craftivist' blog and commmented on my blog. Ellen...
