TY - JOUR
T1 - Textile Craft as Empowerment
T2 - Shared research and craft activities around textiles in museums
AU - Bang, Anne-Louise
AU - Engholm, Gitte
AU - Lervad, Susanne
AU - Nosch, Marie Louise Bech
AU - Skjold, Else
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Focusing on museums, this article illustrates how textile crafts can become a source for scholarly inquiry and can enhance more inclusive practices at museums. The empirical data comprises four museum-related projects conducted since 2017 focusing on textile craft and creativity with women in Denmark, particularly women of refugee, migrant, or second-generation migrant background. Through these cases, we unravel the potential of textile crafts as a medium and encounter for engagement in museums within a societal context, both as a professional outlook, an education, a cultural heritage, an object of research, and a pastime for pleasure and socializing. The common thread—our academic quest—is how, when, and why textile craft is entwined with female empowerment, and how textile craft, as a shared community action, can empower and represent an opportunity for museums to reach new audiences as well as use the museum space in new ways.
AB - Focusing on museums, this article illustrates how textile crafts can become a source for scholarly inquiry and can enhance more inclusive practices at museums. The empirical data comprises four museum-related projects conducted since 2017 focusing on textile craft and creativity with women in Denmark, particularly women of refugee, migrant, or second-generation migrant background. Through these cases, we unravel the potential of textile crafts as a medium and encounter for engagement in museums within a societal context, both as a professional outlook, an education, a cultural heritage, an object of research, and a pastime for pleasure and socializing. The common thread—our academic quest—is how, when, and why textile craft is entwined with female empowerment, and how textile craft, as a shared community action, can empower and represent an opportunity for museums to reach new audiences as well as use the museum space in new ways.
U2 - 10.1080/03612112.2024.2370126
DO - 10.1080/03612112.2024.2370126
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 151
EP - 173
JO - Dress. The Journal of the Costume Society of America
JF - Dress. The Journal of the Costume Society of America
IS - 2
ER -