Battle Jacket Project

Celebrating and documenting DIY punk material culture through free community-building workshops and an online photo archive. Email: [email protected]

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

@appodlachia Just held another successful battle jacket workshop for the queer community in downtown Staunton, VA last weekend. 🥰

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈✨ See you THIS SATURDAY, 6/8, at SolArt Center in Staunton, VA! Create your own patch or take one of ours! Browse our jacket collection for inspiration and work one-on-one with punk fiber artists. Battle jacket workshop takes place from 1-3 PM. Free to attend! 🖤

[SmithsonianFolklife @SmithsonianFolk]

Mark your calendars! The #2024Folklife Festival takes place June 26–July 1 on the National Mall. This year, we’re celebrating @SmithsonianNMAI’s twentieth anniversary in D.C. and Indigenous creative expression across the Western Hemisphere.

Stay tuned: https://t.co/1Ji0C3LTLi

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

Thanks, Staunton! We had TWENTY-ONE (21!!) punks of ALL AGES join us to craft and chat at the Valley’s inaugural battle jacket workshop at SolArt Center on Saturday! Missed this one? We’ll be back soon! Follow us on X, Bluesky, Facebook, or Instagram for future events.

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

Check out this new project from @real_yukio_mishima_! Cashapp or Cash is a short film about the weirdness of scraping by in DC’s music scene. Wanna learn more? Check it out: https://t.co/zdB2J7nGUv—2#/. Thanks to our pal @shadyroselives for sharing! #dcdiy #dcmusic #dcfilm

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

@RexiconJesse Keep an eye out on our socials - hoping to do a good few DC-area events and maaaybe in the Shenandoah Valley as well this year. It would be great to have you join us again!

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

Many thanks to the good folks at @MAGFest for hosting us in the Makerspace! Attendees made bold creative choices creating their own mixed media patches, mending jackets, and more. Curious about attending/hosting a battle jacket workshop with us? Email [email protected]!

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

Due to winter weather, rising COVID-19 rates, and yesterday’s state of emergency declaration in Maryland, we had to make the hard decision to cancel our Friday AM panel and demo at @MAGFest. We’re beyond disappointed, but want to keep our communities safe. We’ll be back!

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

The Battle Jacket Museum is now the Battle Jacket Project!

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

As times and missions change, so do we. We’re going to be undergoing a rebranding period over the next few months as we transition away from an online museum, and more into something that aligns better with the way we want to serve our community. See you on the other side!

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

Winter + quarantine = plenty of time for revamping a jacket. What are you working on?

#battlejacket #battlejackets #punk #metal #punkart #DIY #communityart #museum #museumsarenotneutral #dmvartist

[alison (they/them) @museumqueer]

It’s the first jean jacket day of the year! Happy fall, fellow queers ✨

[Libby Jones (She/her) @LibbyJ1853]

Museums: if you aren't actively (at lwast trying to be) educating people, are you fulfilling your mission? And if you aren't fulfilling your mission, should you exist?

[Art + Museum Transparency @AMTransparency]

The arts are necessary, very much our point. Our nation is wealthy enough to support them *and* health and safety for all. We’re done with toxic philanthropy models imposing scarcity. We can have both, our health and our art. But we need to fight for it. Not the old normal.

[Art + Museum Transparency @AMTransparency]

We believe strongly that the arts are necessary for wellbeing and have devoted our lives and careers to them and to museums. But when our nation has failed so spectacularly to provide the most basic care, we must take stock. Why are many arts patrons opposed to medicare for all?

[Art + Museum Transparency @AMTransparency]

The grim reality is that the arts feel like a luxury right now & a luxury we can’t afford when people are without more basic necessities for their safety. True before all this but now fully exposed. Arts advocates must fight for all if they want the arts to survive. People first.

[Battle Jacket Project @battlejacketprj]

@RexiconJesse I love this idea. One of us needs to bring this to life.