Critical Crafting Session: Embellishment
With Leith Davis (Simon Fraser U), Tommy Mayberry (U of Alberta), Andrea Reichert (Curator of the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library), Emily Wilkinson (multi-media artist and art educator), and Christina Smylitopoulos (U of Guelph)
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Roundtable on 19th-Century Material Culture: Embellishment
With Veronica Alfano (Macquarie U), Julie Codell (Arizona State U), Kate Flint (U of Southern California), Graham McMonagle (U of Victoria), and Christine Olson (Yale U)
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Critical Crafting Session: Textiles
With Nadine Flagel (textile and fibre artist), Daniel Fountain (University of Exeter), Julie Hollenbach (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University), Hinda Mandell (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Deborah Wynne (University of Chester)
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Roundtable on 19th-Century Material Culture: Textiles
With Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie U), Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State U), Leah Decter (NSCAD U), Brandi Goddard (U of Alberta), Kim McCollum (Gather Textile Studios), and Dina Kalman Spoerl (Naper Settlement)
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Crafternoon
With moving-panorama maker and performer Charlene Van Buekenhout
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Critical Crafting Session: Paper
With Meredith Bak (Rutgers U), Claire Battershill (U of Toronto), Catherine Golden (Skidmore College), Leah Price (Rutgers U), and Amanda Shubert (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Crafternoon
With silhouette artist Cheryl Rock
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Roundtable on 19th-Century Material Culture: Paper
With Elena Chestnova (U della Svizzera italiana), Catherine Golden (Skidmore College), Patrick Leary (Victoria Research Web), Catriona MacLeod (U of Chicago), and Danielle Skeehan (Oberlin College)
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Crafting Workshop: Block Printing
With Samantha Bellinger (Toronto Public Library, Bingo Bango Press)
Roundtable: Victorian Pregnancy & Childbirth
With Isabel Davis (Birkbeck), Jacqueline Hyman (Textile Restoration Studio), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (UVic), Lisa Surridge (UVic), Shannon Withycombe (U of New Mexico), Whitney Wood (Vancouver Island U)
Crafting Communities Virtual Launch Party
Please join us as we celebrate the launch of our legacy projects: the Victorian Samplings podcast; Victorian Things, an online exhibit of objects discussed in our roundtables; and the Crafting Communities website!
A Conversation with Judith Flanders in a Handful of Victorian Objects
With Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian House, The Victorian City, The Making of Home, Christmas: A Biography, A Place for Everything, & more.
Roundtable: Victorian Material Culture
With Shalini Le Gall (Portland Museum of Art), Deborah Lutz (U of Louisville), Morna O’Neill (Wake Forest U), Deborah Wynne (U of Chester), Maria Zytaruk (U of Calgary)
Crafting Workshop: Hair Art
With Sandra Klowak (artist) & Vanessa Warne (U of Manitoba)
Pedagogy Workshop: Collections-Based Learning
With Heather Dean (UVic) & Elizabeth Bassett (UBC)
Roundtable: Victorian Material Culture
With Jordan Bear (U of Toronto), Anne Bissonette (U of Alberta), Alice Crossley (U of Lincoln), Kristen Guest (UNBC), Alison Hedley (McGill)
Crafting Workshop: Hair Art
With Sandra Klowak (artist) & Vanessa Warne (U of Manitoba)
Roundtable: Victorian Material Culture
With Karen Bourrier (U of Calgary), Denae Dyck (UVic), Freya Gowrley (U of Derby), Andrea Korda (U of Alberta), Jaipreet Virdi (U of Delaware)
Roundtable: Victorian Material Culture
with Manon Gaudet (Yale U), Heather Hind (U of Exeter), Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson), Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), Talia Schaffer (CUNY)
Crafting Workshop: Victorian Scrapbooking
with Heather Dean (UVic) & Elizabeth Bassett (UBC)
Roundtable: Victorian Material Culture
with Jo Briggs (Walters Art Museum), Hannah Claus (artist), Hannah Field (U of Sussex), Imogen Hart (Berkeley), Vanessa Warne (U Manitoba)
Roundtable: Material Connections Between French and British 19th-Century Literature
with Colette Colligan (SFU), Tania Duclos (STM C), Beth Gerwin (U of Lethbridge), Kirsten MacLeod (U of Newcastle), Paisley Mann (Langara C)
Roundtable: Singing from the Margins? The Cultural Worlds of Victorian Hymns
with Alisa Clapp-Itnyre (Indiana U East), Diana Maltz (Southern Oregon U), Heather Marcovitch (Red Deer C), Fred Roden (U of Connecticut)