Our craft questions consumerism and rethinks waste. Our minds and hands have re-imagined, re-purposed and re-valued the precious resources of our planet.
“I used a tablecloth embroidered by my grandmother. It seemed appropriate, because my grandmother’s grandparents came to Australia to escape religious persecution. By including her embroidery, I felt I was collaborating with her younger self.”
- Candy Barnes, Australia, Article18, the Blue Quilt
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Selma Djukic has been a grassroots activist for over 35 years, focusing on issues relating to women and children, human rights and civic engagement.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
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Suzette Taylor is an artist, teacher, mother and wife currently living in Phoenix, Arizona. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in fibre/textile art, and is working on getting certification to become a high school art teacher. Her work focuses on issues that are political, controversial, environmental, or activist problems that affect the world we live in, and she keeps a neutral stance and lets the viewer interpret the work. She currently is trying to become 100% sustainable within all work made, and uses recycled materials whenever possible.
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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Jo Dixey is a traditionally trained embroiderer living in New Zealand, having moved from the United Kingdom in 2000. She works full-time as an embroiderer, teaching and working on commissions. For her exhibition work she is inspired by modern society, making comment on issues she has with the world around her; for example, how technology is changing how people talk to each other or ideas of identity and putting people in boxes. Jo hopes that people viewing the work will be sparked to think.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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From the small town of Stamford in England, but currently living in Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand, Georgia Wigmore has a bit of an adventurous side to her. After working in events for five years in the United Kingdom, she decided to quit her job and explore the world. With an interest in sustainable development, on her travels she has joined NGOs in Borneo and Guatemala to take part in international development projects.
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
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Jennie Johnston works, lives and learns on the west coast of Canada in British Columbia. Her love of quilting is deeply personal and enriching. She finds inspiration in nature, her ancestry, her family and her constant love of reading.
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
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Charissa Lucille, Amy Lou Bogen and Illuminate stitched the body of this Article together at Wasted Ink Zine Distro in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. They are connected through the active and inclusive DIY arts community supported by spaces like Wasted Ink, founded by Charissa Lucille.
Find out more about Wasted Ink here www.wizd-az.com
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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Kimberly Becker is a painter/embroiderer living in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a degree in textiles from Rhode Island School of Design and has been trained at Ecole Lesage in Paris as a master embroiderer. Her work is a passionate discussion of what it means to be female in the 21st century. Using the tools of women’s work, needle and thread, she is giving a voice to women.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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Lauren Leone is an artist and art therapist living in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband Mike and their dog Ripley. Lauren meets with individuals in her art therapy private practice, facilitates a community-based art therapy craftivism group, Crafting Change, and teaches art therapy courses at Lesley University.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
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Illuminate is a moniker used by Stephanie Dunlap, a student, artist, and activist from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. They work individually and with others to create accessible art that engages the global community on an individual level. While varied, their larger body of work delves into ideas of pattern recognition, intersectionality and self-efficacy as a way of understanding and emphasising an individual’s vital role in our global community.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
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Noca Passos is Brazilian, living in Argentina for 12 years now, mom of three. She loves embroidering and has been doing it since she was a little child. She loves especially new challenging techniques and big-sized works, and considers that good techniques give you control to decide when to use them or not. She also loves making dolls, sewing and patchwork, and experimenting with different combinations of techniques.
