Center for Craft 2025 Craft Research Fund

 

Thank you to the Center for Craft for awarding me a 2025 Craft Research Fund for the project, The Multi-Stranded History of Hand Knitting in Appalachia. This research will explore the underdocumented cultural history of hand knitting in Appalachia through archival research, community surveys, and fieldwork with contemporary practitioners in Appalachia and Northern Ireland. The project will result in a publicly accessible archival collection, article, and conference presentation.

 

The Female Bob Dylan Podcast Featured on Bandcamp Daily

 

Bandcamp recently featured our new podcast The Female Bob Dylan and gave us the floor to pick and write a few words about some favorite albums on the platform. I chose Natalia Beylis’ Variations on a Sewing Machine, Cath and Phil Tyler’s The Ox and The Ax, Fawn Wood’s Kikāwiynaw, and Norma Tanega’s I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964-1971.

You can check Sophie and Sarah’s excellent picks, our blurbs about each, and Mariana Timony’s full write-up here.