@londonfeminist please shrare! I'm selling bandanas at Open Studios in Cambridge for Memorarte a Chilean feminist collective next weekend. Hand embroidered, £50 each See Memorarte on Instagram

Get your Latin American feminist bandana next weekend! (13, 14, 27, 28th July) at Memorarte, Cambridge Open Studios 12 to 3pm July Open Studios 2024 - Cambridge Open Studios (camopenstudios.org) or pm to buy by post

Pamela Whitaker visited Murray Edwards College again this week and today she facilitated a restoring art therapy workshop for our students. Tomorrow we will discuss pedagogies that involve working with textiles and hope to build this into a co-written paper.

And this is me in the audience with Erika and Alejandra from Memorarte!

Aymara textile artist María Susana Choque said teaching traditional Aymara techniques to people from outside the community is like sowing seeds. Maybe one day someone from outside the community will teach the tradition back to an Aymara person who does not know it. (The harvest)

This arpillera by Memorarte captures the feminist sewing movement. The photo was taken at the 5th Memorarte Encuentro de Arte Textil. Look closely and you'll see a certain little person playing in it! The devil design is inspired by a festival in Northern Chile - La Tirana.

I recommend the exhibition of Violeta Parra's art in the @Museo_MAC at Quinta Normal in Santiago. Curated by @museovparra I visited with Patricia Vilches to progress our book (under contract with Lexington Books). Had fun brewing ideas and thinking through gaps in Parra research.

The first day of Memorarte's V art and resistance meeting was inspiring. I'm captivated by this piece by the Bordadoras de Villa Frei (Embroiderers of Villa Frei) and also by the embroidered, arpillera-like outfits which contain the same iconography as the arpilleras.

Memorarte´s 5th International Event on Textile art and Resistance will be held in Santiago tomorrow. Come along if you can! There are some great speakers. Para asistir, inscríbase en el siguiente link: docs.google.com/forms/d/126c…

Meanwhile a certain little one (age 3) has the Sarah Cawkwell drawings as her favourite.

Goodbye for now cherished office! I'm off to Chile to work on my books! If you visit @TheWomensArt Collection while I'm away, here are some of the works that normally ground me. The Nengi Omuku, the Tracey Emin, the Anni Albers, the Faith Ringgold, and the Lexi Strauss