Lorna Dillon

Research Fellow in Latin American Art. Interests: Violeta Parra's visual art, textile art (arpilleras), Chilean art, Surrealism and Afrosurrealism.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@londonfeminist please shrare! I'm selling bandanas at Open Studios in Cambridge for Memorarte a Chilean feminist collective next weekend. Hand embroidered, £50 each See Memorarte on Instagram

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

Get your Latin American feminist bandana next weekend! (13, 14, 27, 28th July) at Memorarte, Cambridge Open Studios 12 to 3pm July Open Studios 2024 - Cambridge Open Studios (https://t.co/ukAGgOWtja) or pm to buy by post

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

If you are interested in issues surrounding provenance and the restitution of objects in museums, come to this talk by Aba Eyifa Dzidzienyo on Wednesday https://t.co/go6OsUeyjV

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@AldenBrien Wonderful little purses!

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@IsabellaRosner ~Thank you! I've just discovered Cora's website and social media pages. What a jewel.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@WWiertz Ooh thanks!

[Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner]

Fellow textile people! Has anyone seen any fabric like this before? I’m thinking it’s furnishing fabric inspired by 18th-century Spitalfields silks, made in the late 19th or 20th centuries. I would appreciate any thoughts or leads. Thank you!

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

I've been awarded an Alborada Fund grant to work with Aba Eyifa-Dzidzienyo, University of Ghana. We are interested to meet curators and academics to discuss textiles and history, social justice, gender, environmental issues, diaspora, Ghanian artefacts& provenance PM to meet us.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@CambridgeGender @maguiregeoff Hello, I'm looking forward to this. I thought it was in person but I've just received a Zoom link. Looking at my emails, I think this is a fully online event? Can you confirm please? If there is an in person element, I can pop along.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

I'm really looking forward to this talk on Monday.

[Geoffrey Maguire @maguiregeoff]

If you’re in Cambridge on Monday, pop over to Gender Studies at 12.30 to hear my talk on jellyfish, gay dolphins and the oceanic turn in sexuality studies. 🐬🪼🐋 #UnNatural #queerecologies

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@amyEelkins I ordered this via inter-library loan! Would love my own copy.

[LASA VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES @LASAVCS]

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#NewBooks have arrived and are available from our CLAS collection, including works by @Threadsofunity1 @gdenyerwillis @UruguayFran @FedericoMRossi

Discover our collection @TheSeeleyLib :
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[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

Pamela Whitaker visited Murray Edwards College again this week and today she facilitated a restoring art therapy workshop for our students. Tomorrow we will discuss pedagogies that involve working with textiles and hope to build this into a co-written paper.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

Looking forward to the discussion about participatory needlework in our panel at the AAH conference in London tomorrow.

[Rose Sinclair MBE FRSA @Dorcasstories]

This 🌟 session at #ForArtHistory2023 #AnnualConference all day session on Thur 13th April and is co-convened by Rose Sinclair of @Dorcastories #DrEmmaShercliffe & #DrLornaDillon

https://t.co/XGTZf7hwF0

#AAHAnnualConference #Textiles #Cloth #Neeedlework #heritage

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

Interested in arpilleras? Tune in to Chilean radio @RNuevoMundo 12 Apr 2023 4.40 UK time to hear me speak (in Spanish) about textile art with Erika Silva. https://t.co/cCzIMijjBs
¿Te interesan las arpilleras? Sintonice @RNuevoMundo 12 de abr 11.40 hora chile para escucharme

[Jose la Fina 🦕 @josefinaherrera]

La académica @Threadsofunity1 rescata en esta columna sobre la importancia de la tradición de las arpilleras en Chile, "un arma de paz en tiempos hostiles". Pase a leer!
@patrimoniocl
https://t.co/8rapOxphll

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

@CambridgeGender Thank you for inviting me to speak. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Lorna Dillon @Threadsofunity1]

On Monday I'll be speaking about Latin American textile art as part of the University of Cambridge Gender Studies Multi-disciplinary Seminar Series. My talk will be at lunchtime UK time and you can join virtually. Sign up here https://t.co/H4FXr5EEUQ

[Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education @Cambridge_PACE]

Applications closing soon for several part-time Master’s programmes. Come join the 2023/25 student intake

Closing 17th March:
- MSt in History

Closing 31st March:
- MSt in AI Ethics & Society
- MSt in Coaching
- MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture

https://t.co/GvlF76XxbZ