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Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

English

By (author): Diana Weymar

From beloved craftivist Diana Weymar, creator of the brilliantly subversive Tiny Pricks Project, a collection of projects, actions, and essays to transform your anxiety into action during troubled times.

Ever feel like youre hanging on by a thread?

From the climate crisis, to racism, to gun violence, to attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, the list of issues facing this country goes on and on, and its only natural to feel anxious about the state of our union. Even if you vote, march, volunteer, and donate, feelings of hopelessness (and helplessness) still creep in.

Crafting a Better World is a new kind of call to action: a guidebook for combatting fatigue and frustration with the handmade. Whether thats sewing a welcome blanket for new immigrants, or making a batch of vulva chocolates to raise money at a bake sale for abortion access, this book will teach you how to transform your anxiety into action.

Curated by Diana Weymar, the creator of the Tiny Pricks Project, who knows what it means to meld craft and activism. On Jan. 8, 2018, she stitched I am a very stable genius (a Donald Trump quote) into a piece of her grandmothers abandoned needlework from the 1960s and posted it to Instagram. Since then, shes turned her embroidery practice into a material record of the trials facing this country and become a leading voice in the movement to save our democracy.

Featuring essays, exclusive profiles of well-known creatives, and projects that readers can create by themselves or with their communities, this book is a means to stay engaged, make stuff, and hold ourselves together as we navigate this uncertain personal and political landscape. With contributions from artists and activists, including:

  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Roz Chast
  • Gisele Fetterman
  • PEN America
  • Nadya Tolokonnikova (founding member, Pussy Riot)
  • Guerilla Girls

Crafting a Better World is a response to this unique moment in time when so many feel, in equal measure, deep anxiety and deep hope. So pick up a needle, a pen, a spatulaanythingand craft the change you want to see in the world.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 24 Oct 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 347g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780063389281

About Diana Weymar

Diana Weymar grew up in the wilderness of British Columbia studied Creative Writing at Princeton University and worked in film in New York City. For the past decade she has been threading the needle to create a material record of our times. Both on social media and in person she has encouraged thousands of people to find their own creative path through personal and political challenges.  She is the creator and curator of the public art projects Interwoven Stories and Tiny Pricks Project. Her collaborations and exhibits bring people together around textile and embroidery to share personal stories and discuss political issues. She has worked or collaborated with Build Peace (Nicosia Bogotá Zurich Belfast San Diego) Arts Council of Princeton Nantucket Atheneum W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst University of Puget Sound Zen Hospice Project Open Arts Space (Damascus Syria) Trans Tipping Point Project New York Textile Month Alison Cornyns Incorrigibles project Syrian journalist and activist Mansour Omari Princeton University Concerts Healing With Music program Project Threadways Alabama Chanin Open Society Foundations The Isolation Journals Kate Bowler Economic Hardship Reporting Project Culture House the Fetterman campaign Speedwell Projects ShowUp Gallery Planthouse Gallery Molly Jong-Fast Lingua Franca and Abortion Access Front #notalonechallenge and many others.  Her work is also in private collections. 

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