Domestic Dusters: Collaborative embroidery as an act of resistance

Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

Join project founder, artist, and academic, Vanessa Marr for an inspiring journey into her ongoing collaborative textile project Domestic Dusters, which invites women to embroider their experiences of domesticity onto a yellow duster. Vanessa will reveal the inspiration for project and the stories behind a selection of the hundreds of hand-embroidered dusters that have contributed by women from across the world, challenging the legacy of so-called women’s work.
Period7 Jun 2024

Keywords

  • Women
  • Gender
  • Domesticity
  • Equality
  • Craft

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    Research output: Non-textual output › Exhibition