New Women's Work
Reimagining "feminine" craft in contemporary art
Published on 24. September 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-922754-88-2 (ISBN)
Description
A celebration of 'women's work', this book features contemporary artists from around the globe who are transforming what it means to make craft.
"Women's work" has historically been relegated to the domestic, absent from galleries and discussions of "art." From cross-stitching and quilts to baskets and decorative ceramics, women have spent centuries creating masterful crafts without recognition from the historians and institutions that determine whose names are remembered and whose work is celebrated.
This book explores these art forms, focusing on ten areas traditionally labelled as "feminine." Featuring 38 contemporary artists from around the world, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy examines the traditions these artists work with and the boundaries they're breaking. Through stories of family, migration, gender, and it means to be a craftsperson, this book explores the future of the feminine in the arts.
"Women's work" has historically been relegated to the domestic, absent from galleries and discussions of "art." From cross-stitching and quilts to baskets and decorative ceramics, women have spent centuries creating masterful crafts without recognition from the historians and institutions that determine whose names are remembered and whose work is celebrated.
This book explores these art forms, focusing on ten areas traditionally labelled as "feminine." Featuring 38 contemporary artists from around the world, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy examines the traditions these artists work with and the boundaries they're breaking. Through stories of family, migration, gender, and it means to be a craftsperson, this book explores the future of the feminine in the arts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Illustrations
250 colour photographs; 250 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1884 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-922754-88-2 (9781922754882)
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Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy is a curator and writer of contemporary art and craft advocating for underrepresented communities, stories, materials and approaches. She has curated and juried exhibitions across the United States, including at the Crocker Art Museum, CA; Mindy Solomon Gallery, FL; Center for Craft, NC; the Honolulu Downtown Art Center, HI; Collar Works, NY; Jane Hartsook Gallery, NY; and at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), NY, where she most recently served as Assistant Curator. Vizcarrondo-Laboy has written for multiple exhibition catalogues and publications such as Cultured, American Craft magazine and the Journal of Modern Craft. She is the creator and co-host of the Clay in Color podcast. Vizcarrondo- Laboy holds a BA in Art History from the University of Florida and an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, NY, in Decorative Arts, Design History, & Material Culture. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico.