Project I’ve been working on as a Visiting Artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Library as a Toolbox: Which Craft Lives on the Haystack Shelves? https://t.co/zOfnJTyS5U
@brandonshimoda @01FirstSecond@MacmillanUSA I am working on a project connected to Kenneth Yasuda who wrote a famous book on haiku. He was incarcerated at Tule Lake. Curious if you’ve come across his work?
My latest.
When the British plundered the Benin Bronzes in 1897, they sold them to help finance their murderous colonial escapades.
To borrow from @MarcFennell, this is not just loot. The @britishmuseum and Boston's MFA are holding on to "blood art".
https://t.co/ENcYqgh7Af
I learn all day. It shows to me how little I know. And how much I still have to learn. It humbles me to realize there is so much I don’t know. But at the same time, it gives me a great feeling that I am learning. Learning the game of life.
"So, if I tell you a house is haunted, you might expect to encounter ghosts, dead bodies, perhaps the devil himself, but what you’ll find is, unfortunately, much worse." @damfales @DilettanteArmy https://t.co/lu46l0ekcd #longreads
During a recent lecture, visiting scholar Namita Gupta Wiggers @namitagw encouraged #RISD students to use research as a way of catalyzing community, action and visibility: https://t.co/752PLC6QcQ
Preview the Summer 2021 issue of American Craft on our blog now! Read Unearthing the Craftscape—a dive into Namita Wiggers' @namitagw craftscape and more. https://t.co/k8ba0EP4XQ
Illustration by Darin Lin 2021.
Can we remind ourselves that when someone says “but not everything is about diversity...” as a way to justify a culturally homogenous narrative, they are perpetuating racial structures that stifle plurality and gaslighting us into thinking we are pushing the issue too far.
I want Trump to be removed so that every 5th grader who asks “why was Mike Pence President for 2 days” hears a story about why white supremacy & fascism are threats to democracy. Millions of students in the next decades will ask this question and will know to reject fascism.
My first thought upon waking this morning was a prayer that nobody dies trying to vote today.
This is the world Trump made, a place where the resurrected monster of white supremacy freely roams. If that's not enough to vote him out, I don't know what is.