{"id":3913,"date":"2017-11-25T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:43:05","slug":"nave-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/11\/25\/nave-catalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit Looks At How Crafters Are Sewing, Embroidering And Knitting The Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

“They are designed to amplify the voices of front line groups fighting for the rights of immigrants,\u201d writes New York artist Alexandra Zevin of her appliqu\u00e9d \u201cLiberty Knows No Borders\u201d banners\u2014in English, Arabic and Spanish\u2014that she made in collaboration with the People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re part of \u201cCatalyst: Craft + Social Change\u201d<\/a> at Somerville\u2019s Nave Gallery. The group exhibition is a survey of the front lines of craftivism as we near the end of the year that brought us the iconic pink Pussyhats of the Women\u2019s Marches around the country in January. Organized by Vanessa Marcoux, the show features embroidery, knitting, quilting and weaving addressing immigration, healthcare, homelessness, women\u2019s rights, the justice system, and climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cCatalyst: Craft + Social Change\u201d<\/a> at Nave Gallery, 155 Powder House Boulevard, Somerville, Mass., Nov. 18 to Dec. 30, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Alexandra<\/a>
Alexandra Zevin’s \u201cLiberty Knows No Borders\u201d banners. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Karen<\/a>
Karen Krolak and Nicole Harris’s banners. (Greg Cook)x<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karen Krolak of Boston and Nicole Harris of Somerville stitch textile banners. “re[fuge] #1” by Krolak incorporates a design from the Sanctuary Printshop at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. “re[fuge] #2″by Harris was inspired by one of the postcards created at a “Love Letters from Boston” event.<\/p>\n

\"Celeste<\/a>
Celeste Hanlon’s “Pharma Series: Vicodin.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I’m not judging the pharmaceutical companies’ greed, but showing the importance of these drugs that keep so many infants, children, adults and seniors alive,\u201d writes Celeste Hanlon of North Eastham, Mass. of her embroidered “Pharma Series: Vicodin.\u201d \u201cSome of these drugs can work against us and be addictive and kill us as well.”<\/p>\n

\"Jenna<\/a>
Jenna DeLuca\u2019s “What Once Was.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jenna DeLuca\u2019s “What Once Was” is part of her series of acrylic paintings embellished by embroidery that endeavors to address power relationships in American society by reimagining mug shots, forensic photography and other found imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“They are designed to amplify the voices of front line groups fighting for the rights of immigrants,\u201d writes New York artist Alexandra Zevin of her appliqu\u00e9d \u201cLiberty Knows No Borders\u201d banners\u2014in English, Arabic and Spanish\u2014that she made in collaboration with the People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street. They\u2019re part of \u201cCatalyst: Craft + Social Change\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[99,14,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}