Since the lockdown, many of us are in a holding pattern when it comes to tending to our locks. With hair cuts on hold, we find ourselves harassed by the overgrowth of tresses sprouting from our heads. Let’s say that in a fit of pique, you grab the scissors. Rather than tossing the severed hair […]
Radio Chipstone: Textiles as Historic Political Ephemera
In the early formation of our nation’s political party system, if you wanted a souvenir from a public event you pretty much had to be there. Long before red baseball hats, bumper stickers, and small round buttons for your lapel could be ordered online, political ephemera was often made from textiles. One of the earliest […]
Radio Chipstone: Intersections: Indigenous Textiles Of The Americas, P...
Radio Chipstone is a new series curated by Art Historian gianofer fields. The focus is Material Culture which… is not the study of the history of objects but the study of history through objects. This is the second of a two-part series focusing on an exhibit entitled Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas. It’s currently […]
Radio Chipstone: Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas, P...
What are you wearing? No…this isn’t the start of a creepy phone call. It’s actually a question related to the segment you are about to hear. Just…Bear with me for a minute. Radio Chipstone is a new series curated by Art Historian gianofer fields. The focus is Material Culture which… is not the study of […]
