GlobalYell’s blog news
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The Spotify playlist this week
Each week a curated list of music and sounds is created to go along with the blog. Each of the pieces reflects something on the blog, sometimes obviously and sometimes…
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CTANZ symposium
The Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand is fast approaching. Here is the latest newsletter from the organisation about it. I am doing a talk about Shetland Tweed and…
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Nastassja Swift
Virginia-based African-American artist, Nastassja Swift, uses fibres to create sculptures and performances that tell stories about “geographical histories, ancestry, ritual practices and community”. In her work, Nastassja Swift uses details…
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Margery Blackman
Ōtepoti Dunedin Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of tapestries by Margery Blackman. Margery Blackman, Hon Curator and Dave Rapp, Exhibition Designer with Kahu huruhuru with tāniko border, from…
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Kimathi Mafafo
Kimathi Mafafo is an artist from the Northern Cape of South Africa. With National Diplomas in Fine Arts and in Film and Video, the artist uses her work to empower…
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Edonomy
During the Edo period in Japan (1603 to 1868) what is probably the world’s first ecological civilisation flourished. Although feudal and run by a military dictatorship, Japan at this time…
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An Egyptian addition
The blog this week starts with a new addition to the collection. Thanks to a reader who thought of the collection when chatting to a friend about an inheritance, there…
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This week’s blog
Without our readers the blog would not exist. This week all the entries are from links that people have sent in to share as well as to a new addition…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated to reflect the items on the blog. Some are obviously connected and some are more obscure. To listen, click on the playlist above or…
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Karen Lamonte
Karen LaMonte has been exploring beauty, identity, gender and the natural world since 1990 through glass, ceramic, paper, bronze, iron and marble, sculpture and printmaking. Now based in Prague, in…
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