Tag Archives: knitting

Woman stands in an interior space with beige walls looking away from the camera. She wears a white shirt and white face mask elaborately embroidered with Oaxacan designs in bright colors, especially reds and pinks. Embroidery on her shirt includes large panels of floral motifs with ribbons and a small band of embroidered human figures line the edge of the embroidered sections. Face mask features a large red butterfly with floral wings.

SoHE News: Oct 16–22

| October 22, 2020

SoHE and CommNS win 3 WPP grants, Addo featured in Newsweek on pandemic economic relief, Duncan publishes on postpartum wellbeing, Community Altar Project goes virtual for 2020, and more.

Brenda Baker and Bird Ross, co-founders of Wisconsin Artists Forward Fund and local artists themselves, flank Jennifer Angus and Dakota Mace at the awards reception for the inaugural Forward Art Prize, which Angus and Mace have been awarded for 2019.

SoHE News & Events: November 8-14

| November 14, 2019

Gaddis op-ed in Teen Vogue | Angus and Mace win major art prize | Sarmadi’s “blaze pink” research featured in policy brief | Grad student Williams publishes on culturally responsive evaluation | Huambachano discusses food sovereignty | Moskowitz lectures to Madison Knitters Guild

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Knit-In for the 50th: What a Night!

Emily Schindler, Jane Graff Textile Research Associate | Published by | March 7, 2019

Members of the Madison Knitting Guild gathered in the Robin’s Nest Cafe on Thursday evening, February 28th, to lead a knit-in, where members of the SoHE community could learn to knit. More than 50 people – students, administrators, colleagues, amateur and expert knitters -came together on a cold night to practice one of the world’s […]