Displacedness and Home-making
This past weekend, my husband and I moved to a new house in St. Andrews. Seeing our lives boxed up and moved about made…
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The Place of ‘Place’: Community-Building in American Theatre
Yesterday, Jenn Craft asked, ‘If you are a practicing artist, how might a deepened relationship to place affect your work?’ This question is becoming…
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Deborah Haynes: Land, Art, and Spirituality
Because my research deals with the relationship of art to theological issues regarding place and space, I come across a lot of artists who…
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Artists and Makers in Community
An interview with Dan Thompson, founder of Artists and Makers – an initiative which works with local authorities and real estate agents to make…
Read MoreThe Art of Recycling in Southern Folk Traditions
Southern self-taught art is one of my favorite art traditions. This may be because I’m Southern, but it’s also because it brings up some…
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The arts can be understood as “communal” or “expressions of community” in many ways. In this post, I wanted to reflect briefly on the…
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Will History’s Photograph Continue to be Archivable?
In the past week, I’ve scanned almost 1000 photographs and historical documents. Some of them date back to the turn of the 20th century….
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Transpositions Tidbits: Domestic Arts
Along the lines of the Domestic Arts posts that have been featured all this week on Transpositions, here’s this week’s Tidbits. It’s been a…
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An Introduction to the Quilts of Gee’s Bend
Last week, when I walked into the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective to meet Mary Ann Pettway, the manager of the collective, I was immediately…
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