Makers, Crafters, Educators Working for Cultural Change

Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them. Addressing making and crafting in relation to community and schooling practices, culture, and place, this edited collection positions making as an agent of change in education. In the volume’s five sections—Play and Hacking, Access and Equity, Interdependence and Interdisciplinarity, Cultural and Environmental Sustainability, and Labor and Leisure—authors from around the world present a collage of issues and practices connecting object making, participatory culture, and socio-cultural transformation. Offering gateways into cultural practices from six continents, this volume explores the participatory culture of maker and crafter spaces in education and reveals how community sites hold the promise of such socio-cultural transformation.

Foreword, Garth Johnson 1. Introduction: Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change, Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma Section One: Play and Hacking 2. The Joy of Tinkering, Anne Thwaits 3. The Sewing Rebellion, Lisa Vinebaum 4. Tinkering with Change: A Makerspace at a University Art Museum, Chelsea Farrar 5. Material Inquiry: Digital Materials, People, and the Relationships Between Them, Marta Cabral and Sean Justice 6. Pedagogy of the Hack: El Rancho Electrónico and the Culture of Surveillance, León de la Rosa-Carrillo in conversation with Estrella Soria, Gato Viejo, Hacklib, and Jorge David García (AKA Sísifo Pedroza) 7. Makerspaces in a University Art and Design Context: Resourcing the Adult Imagination, Alexandra Byrne, Jim Ward, and Kim Snepvangers 8. DIY in Art Education and Art Teacher Training in Turkey, Vedat Özsoy 9. Maker Ed: Shifting Vision, Culture, and Systems, Stephanie Chang 10. Empty Bowls, Full Minds: Connecting Classroom Learning to Empirical Experiences, Jill Menaugh 11. Jugaad in Innovative Making and Crafting in India: Examining the Work of Sanjeev Shankar, Asavari Thatte 12. What Spinning Teaches Me, Daniel T. Barney Section Two: Access and Equity 13. Do-It-Yourself Movement: A Perspective from a Brazilian Craft Context, Leda Guimarães 14. Does Outreach Equal Equity? Thoughts on the Impact and Challenges of Off-site Community Programs and the Struggle to Use the Arts in Achieving Social Justice, Sarah B. McCann 15. Contradiction and Answering Back: Trickster in the Makerspace for People with Disabilities, John Ploof 16. Beyond the Manifestos: Equity and Learning in Makerspaces, Grace Wingo and Kimberly M. Sheridan 17. ArtMakerSpace as Tactical Pedagogy: Meaningful Making in a Studio Art Context, Steve Ciampaglia and Kerry Richardson 18. Future Fiber Feminism and Change Through Craft, Courtney Lee Weida 19. Cave of Secrets, Liz Collins 20. Thinking in Water: The Process of Collaborative Craft as Social Practice, Christen Sperry-Garcia, Felix Rodriguez, Xalli Zúñiga, and B. Stephen Carpenter, II 21. Two Queer Academics Walk Into a Makerspace: Hacking Patriarchy and Knowledge, Rebecka A. Black and Anna Ramsey 22. Xerocraft: Makerspaces, Democracy, Anarchism, and Education, Lino Garibaldi Section Three: Interdependence and Interdisciplinarity 23. DouglaPrieta: Sewing Together the Borderlands, Sowing Interdependence, Dwight Metzger and Kelly Watters 24. Patterns of Repair: Sewing with Court-Involved Teens, Alexandra Lakind 25. Embroidered Narratives: Threads of the Selfie, R. Darden Bradshaw 26. The Innovation Institute: Making Progress, David Gran 27. The Crafts in Interdisciplinary Curriculum in School, Seija Karppinen 28. A Letter to My Son, Shana Pearlmutter 29. Mongolian Artists and Craft, Uranchimeg Tsultemin 30. Queering Craft: Nick Cave, James H. Sanders III 31. Mawadisidiwag miinawaa Wiidanokiindiwag // They Visit and Work Together, Dylan AT Miner 32. Feminist Visual Tactics, Ellen Lesperance 33. Maker Culture in Nepal: Making vs. making, Supriya Manandhar Section Four: Cultural and Environmental Sustainability 34. Sacred Makers, Damara Jacobs-Morris 35. The (Re)Making of Culture: Annotations of Practices in Secondary School Art in Singapore, Bee Kim Koh 36. Local Roots: Bridging Southern Craft and Museum Audiences through Materials and Engagement, Carissa DiCindio 37. Peruvian Artists-Crafters-Makers, Amanda Alexander 38. Crafts as Sanctuary for Korean Immigrants, Ryan Shin 39. Crafting Content for Innovative Learning in Design Education, Ramneek Kaur Majithia 40. Sustainable Craft Practices and Space-making in Tech Design Contexts, Smriti Saraswat 41. From a Lost Paradise to an Elusive Utopia: Crafts and Sustainability, Nicholas Houghton 42. If Fab Lab Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Maker Culture as a Method for a Sustainable Future, Mira Kallio-Tavin 43. The Walls Tell the Story: Making as Collective Force in the Evolution of an Earth Home Community, Cala Coats Section Five: Labor and Leisure 44. Principles of Sustainable Creativity: How to Make a Lifelong Creative Practice (That You Actually Enjoy), Scott Pinkmountain 45. Engaging with Grassroots Artisans, Anna Waldman-Brown 46. Creating a Wood Carving Tradition in Malawi, Emma Kelley Bussard and Ann E. McCleary 47. Taxi Fabric: We the Living, Jatin Kampani 48. Creating and Managing a Community Education Space for Arts and Crafts in Oaxaca, Mexico, Soledad Zamora 49. Developing a Collective Learning Arts Space: Implications for Art Educators in Diverse Settings, Natasha S. Reid 50. Spotlight on Creative Scotland and Dundee Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award Scheme, Sandra Wilson 51. Social Utopia: Craft and Progress, Mary Callahan Baumstark 52. Skilled Knowledge and Craft Education, Rachel Mason 53. Error Against the Machine: The Human Case for Leisurely Imperfection, Lobregat Balaguer 54. On Being Inconsequential: Making, Craft, and Liquid Leisure, Sarah R. Davies

Elizabeth Garber is Professor Emeritxof Art at the University of Arizona, USA. Lisa Hochtritt is Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), USA. Manisha Sharma is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arizona, USA.