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Journal of Arts & Communities 10.1&2 is now available! 

Special Issue: ‘Stitching Together’ Part One

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Aims & Scope

The Journal of Arts & Communities seeks to provide a critical examination of creative collaboration between artists and people from a range of communities of place and interest. Interdisciplinary in approach, the peer-reviewed journal focuses on practice, policy and research related to issues arising from artist/community engagement.

Issue 10.1&2

Introduction

STEPHANIE KNIGHT

Articles

Stitching Together: Participatory textile making as an emerging methodological approach to research

EMMA SHERCLIFF AND AMY TWIGGER HOLROYD

‘Art is different’: Material practice, learning and co-making at The Social Studio

GRACE MCQUILTEN AND AMY SPIERS

Stitching a sensibility for sustainable clothing: Quiet activism, affect and community agency

FIONA HACKNEY, CLARE SAUNDERS, JOANIE WILLETT, KATIE HILL AND IRENE GRIFFIN

To be ‘skilled’ or not to be ‘skilled’? A case study exploring the interaction of two crafts in anthropological fieldwork in Madagascar

SARAH EMILY BROWN

Kōmako Quilters’ informal learning and the collective zone of proximal development: The ‘5x5 quilt’ project

LINDA CLAIRE WARNER, PIRITA SEITAMAA-HAKKARAINEN AND KAI HAKKARAINEN

‘Made with love, filled with hope’. Knitted Knockers and the materiality of care: Their impact on the women who make and receive them

JULIETTE MACDONALD AND ANDREA PEACH

Make/share: Textile making alone together in private and social media spaces

ALISON MAYNE

Having visits: Considerations on the researcher- as-host in participatory projects

ROSA TOLNOV CLAUSEN

Weaving and flying: Fusion, friction and flow in collaborative textile research

STEPHANIE BUNN