A Stitch’n Time: Textile Art and Craft
I have knit as long as I can remember … (not true, but at least since I was in elementary school). But, I have been making things that I saw as artistic, creative, expressive my whole life. When I decided to become a teacher it is this passion that moved me forward. How can I share my passion for the arts for visual expression and creation with others?
In the fall of 2018, I returned to teaching visual art – specifically, textile art and pedagogy at UBC. There I teach undergraduate students not only the basic vocabulary of making with textiles, but locate this work in the world, in history, in cultural practices and in a place of reconciliation, and at time climate crisis. This is all woven throughout my work.
I know that I am not alone with this work, far from it. One of my closest colleagues and friends, Dr. Shannon Leddy (also at UBC), collaborates with me on a weekly basis as we run ideas past one another and work out the kinks of our thoughts, plans and processes.
One of our recent chapters will be available shortly:
Leddy, S., & Miller, L. (2019). Weaving Slow and Indigenous Pedagogies: Considering the Axiology of Place and Identity in Identity Landscapes: Contemplating Place and the Construction of Self, Ed. Ellyn Lyle. Brill/Sense (pages).
(more to follow).
My studio textile course, attended by mostly Arts undergraduate students, provoked me to craft a new blog dedicated to textile resources so that students could return to it well after the course was over and the ‘canvas’ university page was closed to them. Right now it is a bit of a hodgepodge in need of a do-over, but for now it is what it is: https://astitchntimetextiles.wordpress.com/ A Stitch’n time: Textile art and craft.
Lorrie Miller 