On Demand: TALKING THREADS: Vanessa Marr and Sarah Corbett

The Embroiderers' Guild presented TALKING THREADS: Susan Weeks interviewed Vanessa Marr and Sarah Corbett

By The Embroiderers' Guild UK

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Online

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No refunds

About this event

Registration gives you instant access to an on demand recording of the Embroiderers' Guild TALKING THREADS event with Sarah Corbett, Vanessa Marr and Susan Weeks that took place on March 17th, 2022.

The video can be only be viewed online and will be available for at least 1 month after registration.

Vanessa Marr and Sarah Corbett talked with Susan Weeks about how they use textiles to 'make a point' - both are creative 'activists'.

Vanessa Marr

Vanessa is an artist, academic and designer based in East Sussex, England. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and is currently Principal Lecturer and Course Leader at the University of Brighton.

Her work is underpinned by visual design-theory and process, yet embraces an intuitive and physical approach that facilitates self-authorship, which she explores predominantly through hand-stitch and creative writing.

She is drawn to cloth as a medium that holds the legacy of so-called women’s work and its potential for subversion and quiet activism.

She is best known for her hand embroidered dusting cloths, which form part of an ongoing collaborative arts project ‘Women & Domesticity – What’s your Perspective?’ that invites embroidered statements on this theme.

Her work has been exhibited and presented widely in academic, community and arts contexts in the UK. Vanessa regularly participates in collaborative, creative and research projects, and never stops learning, making and writing.

Women & Domesticity – What's your perspective? (wordpress.com)

Vanessa Marr

By Vanessa Marr

Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. She grew up in Everton: a low-income area of the UK into an activist family and has worked as a professional campaigner for over a decade, most recently with Oxfam GB.

Corbett set up the global Craftivist Collective in 2009 providing craftivism (craft + activism) products, books and services for individuals, groups and organisations to use her unique ‘Gentle Protest’ methodology which has helped change hearts, minds, business policies and government laws around the world.

Corbett’s Talk ‘Activism Needs Introverts’ has been viewed over one million times on TED.com

Home (craftivist-collective.com)

Sarah Corbett. Image by Craftivist Collective.

By Sarah Corbett. Image by Craftivist Collective.

See more of Vanessa Marr

Women & Domesticity – What's your perspective?

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Craftivist Collective | Facebook

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