Our project was a practise of inclusion, collaboration and community-building. The result is a spectacular record of the thoughts and passions of a rich diversity of humans at a moment in global history.
"Sharing this experience with fellow fibre artists across the globe is incredible. These quilts represent the unity that we should be striving for, and display many of the ways that we feel this is not happening."
— Libbertine, England UK, Article 8, the Yellow Quilt
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
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I am a process artist working with plants and natural materials. I look at stories of place, people and the environment, and I’m based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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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KERA is an illustrator and crafter from Finland, currently based in Estonia. Art and crafts have been a massive and daily part of her life from very early on. She has studied different mediums of art in several art schools, both in Finland and Estonia.
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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Sam P Gibson works predominantly in typographical embroidery and painting. She also sews large abstract pieces and small decorative works which she sells online and through galleries and exhibitions. The slow, arduous process of stitching is the backbone of her work, as is humour and nostalgia.
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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Olisa Corcoran is an artist based in Durham, North Carolina. She is a third-generation ‘Nuyorican’ (member of the Puerto Rican diaspora from New York City). Working primarily with embroidery and painting, her art focuses on self-portraiture, women and texture.
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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I work mainly with cloth for its tactility, responsiveness and abundance. I was originally drawn in by the process, the way in which the materials layer. The way they feel as they are worked. The way the thread and cloth work together, transforming and guiding the work, adding texture, contrast and comfort with every stitch.
I love the history and tradition of women sewing together and am in love with the community that surrounds and supports those who sew together.
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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Jo Barcas Buchan is a teacher and craftsperson from Scotland. Jo began cross-stitching as a teenager and completed commercial kits. Whilst she loved the process, she was never happy with the finished result. A couple of years ago, a non-stitching friend said he just couldn’t understand why Jo followed a pattern rather than stitching what she wanted. Jo has never looked back!
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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I started to study hand-embroidery seriously about eight years ago. I was and still am fascinated by this ancient craft and its purpose to make even the most mundane everyday things beautiful. I embroider book-bindings, so ancient manuscripts and illustrations are often my inspiration. Slowly I have also come to realise how powerful embroidery can be! Usually seen as ‘women’s’ way to make life more pretty by embroidering cute flowers on handkerchiefs and tablecloths, it has such an impact if used to make a political statement.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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As an experiential artist, I intertwine stories, connections and history through my work with fibres, paper, labyrinths, psychogeography and ancestral/historical research. I am inspired by the interconnections of people, documents, materials and land. My goal is to express the mind–body connection of my inner and outer landscapes. The inner landscapes are expressed through creative and active meditations including working with fibre (embroidery, knitting, cross-stitch), walking the landscape and labyrinths, and shifting through historical documents and histories.
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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Naomi Atkins is a student, maker, activist, and group fitness instructor based in Canberra, Australia. She is currently pursuing her PhD in international relations at the Australian National University.
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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Erica Gartee is a 29-year-old artist from Michigan. She dabbles in embroidery art, painting and pyrography. She has two daughters and a brood of rescue animals. The rights of all living beings and Mother Earth drive her inspiration. While new to the world of craftivism, she hopes to contribute for many years to come!