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Rebecca E. Schuiling
Rebecca E. Schuiling is an academic specialist in apparel and textile design, in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, at Michigan State University. Her research draws from disciplines including but not limited to dress, cultural studies, sociology, visual and material culture, to build a qualitative methodological framework for study and analysis that allows for better understanding of the rituals of craft. Schuiling’s research and scholarship reveal how crafting practices and rituals of handcraft are vehicles of empowerment. She seeks to provide insight and understanding into dress, often knitwear, through the lens of popular culture, matriculture, gender and the makers at the intersection of art and craft by examining the complex and complicated roles of dress within fashion, art and society. Schuiling is embarking on new research exploring the intersections of dress, wellness, nature and sustainability.
Contact: Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Apparel and Textile Design Program, Michigan State University, 600 Auditorium Rd #113, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.