STITCH
FOR SENATE
Stitch for Senate was an initiative
of knit hobbyists from 2007-2008 to hand knit helmet liners for every United States
Senator. Building on the history of wartime knitting, a practice
dating back to the American Revolution, Stitch for Senate
used the tradition of political organizing within knitting circles
as a space for discussion, skillsharing and protest in the lead up to the 2008 senate elections.
Hobbyists knitted to persuade elected officials to
support the troops by bringing them home. Every senator received their own helmet liner, mailed on President Obama's Inaguration. See response from Senators HERE.
PRESS | PUBLICATIONS
Sewing Notions by Julia Bryan-Wilson in Feb 2011 Artforum
'Virknålens revolution by Malin Vessby in DN Sweden
Craftivist'
sends message to Senate by Abigail Bleck of NBC Channel
13 Albany
Knitting
Circles Around War by Marisa Olson in Rhizome
FAU
Exhibit by Scott Travis in South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Verstrickte
Sache by Ilona Koglin in Das Magazine
Crafting Protest at the New School by Pamela Scheinman in
FiberArts
Interview
on We Make Money Not Art
Stitch
for Senate on We Make Money Not Art
Crafting Political Messages by Colleen O'Connor in the
Denver Post
Radical
Knitters Stitch for the Senate to Bring the Troops Home
by Rose Miller in Mother Jones
Article
in Columbia News Service by Neha Singh Gohil
KnitKnit
7 Stitch for Senate
EVENTS | LECTURES
September 9, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Craftwerk 2.0
Jönköpings läns Museum
Jönköpings, Sweden
June 5, 2009
Craftivism Interchange
Textile Museum, Toronto, Canada
April 14, 2009 Visiting Artist
Textiles Department
Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
March 5, 2009 Visiting Artist
Fiber Art / Material Studies
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Oct 24, 2008 Making
Craft Matter: Feminism And Politics In Handmade Art
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sep 5 - Nov 1, 2008 Political
Circus Art Exhibition
Ritter Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Oct 11, 2008 Vote Early Vote
Often
The Change You Want To See, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Jan 26, 2008 Crafting
Protest
The New School for Social Reasearch, NY, NY
Jan 17, 2008 - Jan 2009
Take
Action!
Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, Sweden
Feb 24, 2007 Stitch for
Senate NYC
Grassroots Media Coalition Conference
The New School for Social Reasearch, NY, NY
Jan 12, 2007 - Feb 10, 2007
Knit For Defense
Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jan 14, 2007 Open
Node
Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, IL
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SUPPORT
AND CREDITS
This
project is created by Cat
Mazza
With support from Experimental Television Center.
Research for this project will be collected for Knit
for Defense an experimental animation about
the history of American wartime knitting, funded by
Creative Capital.
Special thanks: Jamison McCorrison, Jim Finn, Sabrina
Gschwandtner, Three Walls Gallery, Cleve E. Carney
CONTACT
catmazza
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