• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Knitting Craftivism: From My Sofa to Yours; PERSONAL THREADS; Guerrilla Kindness; The Blood Bag Project; Charity Quilting; Daily Narratives and Enduring Images: The Love Encased by Craft; Don't Get Angry, Get Cross-Stitch!; Better, Drawn; Ugly on Purpose: Demystifying the Enemy; Craft: Embracing Empowerment and Equality; REFASHIONING CRAFT; The Power of Upcycling; Stitching for Sisters; Interview with Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet; Crafting Resistance; Real Time Fashion; Yarn Bomb Yukon; Interview with Gabriel Craig; On Golden Joinery and Mending.

• Bare Root StudioCRAFT AS POLITICAL MOUTHPIECE; How a Knitted Mouse Made Me a Craftivist; The Shefftopia Picnic; Interview with Craft Cartel (Rayna Fahey and Casey Jenkins); Making Mirrors: Craft Tactics in the Age of Ongoing AIDS; Sewing Voices: The Arpilleristas and the Women of the Adithi Collective; Cleaning Beaches Project; Interview with Carrie Reichardt; ACTIVATING COMMUNITIES; Stitching It Together; Interview with Rachael Matthews; Suffragette Banners; Creating Tobucil & Klabs: The Making of Bandung, Indonesia's First Info Space; Interview with Maria Molteni of NCAA Net Works.

• Craft in MindGiving Voice through Craftivism; The Uterus Flag Project; Interview with Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective; Acknowledgments; Index.

"Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism; Craftivism the book is full of inspiration for crafters who want to create works that add to the greater good. In these essays, interviews, and images, craftivists from four continents reveal how they are changing the world with their art. Through examples that range from community embroidery projects, stitching in prisons, revolutionary ceramics, AIDS activism, yarn bombing, and crafts that facilitate personal growth, Craftivism provides imaginative examples of how crafters can be creative and altruistic at the same time. Artists profiled in the book are from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Asia, and their crafts include knitting, crocheting, sewing, textiles, pottery, and ceramics. There's the Brooklyn writer who creates large-scale site-specific knitted installations; the British woman who runs sewing and quilting workshops for community building and therapy; the Indonesian book maker and organizer of a DIY craft center; and the Oxford, UK, cultural theorist and designer dressmaker. A wonderful sense of optimism and possibility pervades the book: the inspiring notion that being crafty can really make the world a better place."--Publisher's website.

• Preface; Acknowledgments;
• PART 1: CHOOSING CRAFT; 1 INTEGRATING ART AND LIFE; 2 INHERITING A PATH; 3 RESPONDING TO MATERIALS;
• PART 2: GETTING AN EDUCATION; 4 TRAINING WITH MASTERS; 5 STUDYING IN THE ACADEMY; 6 LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES;
• PART 3: MAKING A LIVING; 7 STARTING A BUSINESS; 8 ENGAGING THE MARKET; 9 WORKING FOR INDUSTRY;
• PART 4: CONFRONTING CRAFT; 10 TESTING TRADITION; 11 CRITIQUING CULTURE; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft?inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper a.