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Little Roadside Museum

@ltlroadsidemuseum.bsky.social

A miniature roadside attraction; a radically democratic experimental museum...a temporary home for small yet beloved works of art. posts about the intersection of art+politics…mostly.

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Jodi Pickens 🏳️‍🌈🖖✨@jodipickens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good morning, you wonderfully complicated little work of art ☕️✨ Human beings have spent thousands of years painting caves, carving stone, writing stories, composing music, and building things simply because something inside them needed to be expressed. That feels important.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘A lot of art in Ireland was made by one type of man’: Richard Malone on taking his colourful fabric creations to the EU Council

‘A lot of art in Ireland was made by one type of man’: Richard Malone on taking his colourful fabric creations to the EU Council

As his bold yet delicate sculptures fill the glass buildings of Brussels for Ireland’s turn at the EU presidency, the Wexford artist discusses working with Björk, his decorator father – and one noisy horse

theguardian.com

Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💖 hi, bluesky, I want to tell you about a beloved mutual aid project that I've been helping organize for five years now. The Consistent Money-Moving Project is an easy way to move money from people with some to spare to those who desperately need more. +

"A better world is built one step at a time. CMMP can help you take that first step."The Consistent Money-Moving Project distributes cash to DC-area households in financial distress. You pledge a weekly amount for 3 months, we request and pool it, and 32 households gets weekly support.
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Daniela Rosner's work on this gendered tech hustory is really cool, including a "Core Memory Quilt" quilt w/audio interviews from the space seamstresses, workshops w/a hands-on core memory weaving exercise faculty.washington.edu/dkrosner/fil...

Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌕@chronicleflask.katday.com · 4mo ago

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Screenshot: ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon. And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
Hyperallergic@hyperallergic.com · 8mo ago

The arts are a public good on the same level as education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and public safety. Housing reform, cultural funding equity, and fair wages for artists and cultural workers must all be tackled intersectionally to enable New York City's arts sector to thrive.

Dear Zohran, Don’t Let Art Workers Down

Those of us in the cultural sector need you to enact a bold vision for the role of city government in fostering the arts and helping our communities thrive.

hyperallergic.com

Little Roadside Museum@ltlroadsidemuseum.bsky.social · 8mo ago

From @theguardian.com “For some fiber artists, craft is inherently political. “Creating in a time of destruction and chaos, that is resistance in and of itself,” said Downey…she thinks one of the other successes of craftivism is that “it centers joy”.”

‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump

Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights

theguardian.com