Craftivism Roundtable Panel Discussion

Fuller Craft Museum is pleased to announce an upcoming reception and roundtable discussion to celebrate the opening of Revolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project and Threads of Resistance on January 21st, 2018. “Make Against the Machine: Needlecraft and the Resistance” will be moderated by Chief Curator, Beth McLaughlin. Panelists include Jayna Zweiman, the Pussyhat Project cofounder; Virginia Johnson, the owner/crafter/dreamer behind Cambridge stitch-lounge Gather Here; local fiber artist and craftvisit Adrienne Sloane; and Sue Bleiweiss, member of The Artist Circle Alliance and “Threads of Resistance” organizer. Please join us for an important discussion on the role of needlework in affecting social change. The event will be held on January 21, 2018 from 2:00 – 5:00 pm with the panel discussion at 3:00 pm. Directly following is a Social Justice Sewing Academy Workshop where visitors will make a quilt square based on a pressing social justice issue.