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NAP INA SILENT PROTEST / OCCUPATION OF THE GALLERY 11.15.2022
DePauw students gathered for a collective nap in the gallery space as part of Betsy Redelman Díaz's solo exhibition, Queer Crip Craft Library. The protest manifesto read: "Thank you for your participation in this silent protest. We collectively nap today as an anti-capitalist, crip occupation of the gallery space. We, the nappers, call on museums, galleries, and arts institutions everywhere to provide more places for rest in their spaces and to make accessibility a priority, not an after-thought. Pushing back against capitalism, a system which views our bodies as machines for production and labor, we choose to occupy the gallery today with our resting bodies, to revel in rest as an act of resistance." |
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QUEER CRIP CRAFT LONG TABLEA LONG TABLE DISCUSSION 11.3.2022
Part of the opening event for Betsy Redelman Díaz's solo exhibition, Queer Crip Craft Library at DePauw University. Students and community members gathered to discuss their intersectional experiences with queerness and disability as it relates to race, class, identity, academia, craft, and capitalism. |
I WILL HOLD YOU LIKE A THREADA LONG TABLE DISCUSSION 8.17.2022
in collaboration with Indira Allegra As artists with illness and/or disability, we bring a unique set of skills to our creative practice. From the way we care for hearing aids or sound blocking headphones, to the ways we organize and take medication, or intentionally design safer spaces to decompress—we are experts at creating intimate relationships and rituals with the objects and environments that support our wellbeing. In I Will Hold You Like A Thread, we will discuss relational praxis as it relates to studio practice as artists with illness and/or disability. We'll share how what we make teaches us how to relate more creatively to that which is more than human—in service of a greater experience of supportive connection with the world. www.rainmakercraft.org/i-will-hold-you-like-a-thread |
CRIPPING CRAFTA CONVERSATION ON CRAFT 5.25.2022
Panelists: Panteha Abareshi, Liz Jackson, Jina B. Kim, Aparna Nair Moderator: Betsy Redelman Díaz Cripping Craft is the first of a three-part series of conversations on disability + craft curated by Betsy Redelman Díaz. RCI invites you to engage in this virtual roundtable with guest panelists Panteha Abareshi, Liz Jackson, Jina B. Kim, and Aparna Nair on the intersections of disability, capitalism, labor, and craft. The panel and resulting dialogue will consider a broad range of questions, including: How do we hack our production-centric craft traditions to promote access and self-care? Where do prosthetics and mobility aids end and craft objects begin? And how do we crip craft education? www.rainmakercraft.org/cripping-craft |
illustration by Shannon Finnegan
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QUEER CRIP CRAFT READING ROOM
6 WEEK READING GROUP 3.10.2022-4.14.2022
Hosted by Betsy Redelman Díaz Similar to the word queer, ‘crip’ is in the process of being reclaimed by some members of the disability justice community. When used as a verb, to queer refers to challenging heteronormativity through the troubling of binaries like gender, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, and identity politics and systems of oppression. But what does it mean to crip something? or to queercrip something? And how might we use the core ideas of disability justice and queer of color critique to queercrip craft? This group's focus is on inquiry and we welcome participants of all communities and identities to share and expand their knowledge and experience of the intersections of queerness and disability with race, class, gender, capitalism, and colonialism. Group members will be invited to knit, crochet, or otherwise craft during weekly meetings. Content will center QTBIPOC artists and scholars including Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, E. Patrick Johnson, Sky Cubacub, and Andil Gosine, among others, as we contemplate queer crip craft as a way of seeing, thinking, creating, and theorizing. www.rainmakercraft.org/queercripcraft |
Film and Sound by Daniel Suarez Gaviria
Editing by Betsy Redelman Díaz |
THE F WORD: A LONG TABLE DISCUSSION ON FEMINISM, CLAY, AND INTERSECTIONALITY OREGON CONVENTION CENTER. 3.24.2017
This video is the documentation of a vibrant discussion hosted on the state of feminism, and intersectionality in the ceramics community hosted by Betsy Redelman Díaz during NCECA's annual conference. *This project is part of research supported by a Craft Research Fund grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Inc. and by a grant from the National Council on Ceramic Arts Education (NCECA). |
Film and Sound by Abi Tonche
Editing by Abi Tonche and Betsy Redelman Díaz |
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