Andi Zeisler - Lecture - Nov 6, 2006

Pacific Northwest College of Art and Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery co-present a lecture by Andi Zeisler.
November 6, 2006 at 7 pm.

Her lecture is on the evolution of craft beyond its many stereotypical iterations - "women's work" - and beyond its often disdainful reputation in the high-art world. Zeisler will touch on the meta aspects ofcontemporary craft - namely, the fact that many crafts, particularly those made by women, serve to comment on the domestic realms of the past. She will also reflect on how the new "hipness" of craft is represented in today's popular culture.

Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer 'zine with a circulation of 300 and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine. A longtime freelance writer, her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, Utne, Bust, San Francisco Chronicle, Women's Review of Books, and Hues.

Before Bitch became her full-time job, Andi worked as a textile designer, and these days satisfies her fabric-related craft urges by embroidering portraits of people and dogs. She graduated from The Colorado College in 1994 with a ba in Art. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she currently lives in Oakland, California, but will be moving to Portland in 2007.

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