Have you ever thought of your creative hobbies as a tool for social change?
Craftivism combines creativity and activism, turning handmade crafts into powerful tools for change. Whether you're stitching messages of hope or knitting for justice, craftivism proves that small acts can make a big impact. Learn the history, techniques, and inspiring stories behind this movement—and discover how your crafts can help create a better world.
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Craft Activism - Learn to craft for your cause, connect with other crafters, think green, organize a fair, host an online exchange, create yarn graffiti, and more. The book also includes 17 creative projects from designers who challenge you to reimagine how your craft skills can be used to make a difference.
Crafting A Better World - Whether that's sewing a welcome blanket for new immigrants, or making a batch of chocolates to raise money at a bake sale for a worthy cause, this book will teach you how to transform your anxiety into action. Features essays, exclusive profiles of well-known creatives, and projects that readers can create by themselves or with their communities.
Crafting Change - Craftivism means using handmade art to provoke, to interrupt, to draw attention to help others, and hopefully to spark change. Vitkus examines historical ways crafting served a political purpose, and introduces readers to current-day makers and agitators who craft to make a statement. In showing artists and art in action, she encourages readers to get started on their own craftivist journey.
Let's Move The Needle: An Activism Handbook For Artists, Crafters, Creatives, And Makers; Build Community And Make Change! - Filled with self-reflective activities, exercises, prompts, and stories, this book educates and empowers creatives to center their art around collective action in service of political, social or community issues they are most passionate about; affirming that everyone can be a changemaker and that change-making can be generative, enjoyable, and a bit sassy!
Protest Knits - From protest scarfs and political pin cushions to shy anarchist socks, make your point with a crochet hook or pair of knitting needles. From the easy-peasy to the more complex, here are more than 15 projects for some crafty therapy.
Where creativity meets community
Share your love of crafting with other crafters in your community! Check out the many Arts & Crafts programs and groups hosted online and at a library near you.
