Craftivism during a Pandemic
@ UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center
https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcuuvpjMiGNFX-WhpzIo598FLgDjT_Epe
Opening Friday, May 1st, from 12PM - 1PM
Join us in the Breathing Room, a virtual place to unwind, heal, and find community.
May 1, 2020: Craftivism During a Pandemic
In this week’s session, Shannon Downey of Badass Cross Stitch will lead us in a discussion of how artists and crafters use their skills for social justice, in good times and bad. How can this work help us get through a crisis and find community? On the practical side, how do folks keep their arts and crafts businesses afloat during a pandemic?
Register at go.uic.edu/breathingroom5 to receive Zoom info.
CART live captioning will be provided. Please send any questions or additional accommodation requests to wlrc@uic.edu.
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Shannon Downey, better known as Badass Cross Stitch, is a community organizer disguised as a fiber artist and craftivist. She blends her politics, activism, and art into projects that are designed to inspire others to take action, think, discuss, engage with democracy and their community, and find some digital/analog balance. She is the instigator behind #RitasQuilt and Badass HERstory.
She teaches at Columbia College and is founder of Seriously Badass Women.
Her life motto is: Make Art. Smash Systems.
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