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Julie Hollenbach
Julie Hollenbach is a queer cis-woman of German ancestry born on unceded Syilx territory, now living and working in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia as an Assistant Professor of Craft History and Material Culture at NSCAD University. She received her PhD from Queen’s University (2017) for her SSHRC funded research, “The Social Practice of Crafting: Gender, Race, and Class in Western Craft.” This research expanded considerations of amateur and professional craft as a gendered and classed activity to explicitly consider how craft is a racializing process that enshrines whiteness under settler colonialism. Her current research is a critical race analysis of contemporary amateur crafting cultures, focusing on white affect and moralism in crafted forms of activism. Her interdisciplinary scholarly, artistic, and curatorial work uses queer, feminist, disability, anti-colonial, and critical race frameworks to engage with cultural production at the intersections of history and location, tradition and ritual, contact and connection, and meaning and use.
Contact: Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada