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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 26, 2010.
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A postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, a small piece of yarn dyed for the installation, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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A 1 oz ball of the hand-dyed yarn made for the installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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2 oz of dyed yarn made for the installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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One-of-a-kind hand-dyed, handwoven pillows from the installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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One-of-a-kind hand-dyed, hand-woven silk scarf from the installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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One-of-a-kind hand-dyed, handwoven throw-sized blanket from the installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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The one-of-a-kind hand-dyed throw-sized silk blanket that I will weave during the two-week gallery installation plus a postcard-sized high quality photo of the piece, your name credited and a huge thank you for your participation.
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Connected as Tali Weinberg (385 friends)
A Brooklyn-based artist and activist, my practice of making emerges in conversation with my past work in human rights and fair trade advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots development, including time living in Bombay, India working with a sex-worker rights organization.
In my practice of weaving and stitching, I explore how labor rights, community, ecology, and meaning shape and are shaped by the craft of turning fibers into textiles. I consider the web of production, circulation, meaning-making, consumption, and use that enables me to bring a piece into being; and how objects and values circulate through spaces of homes, bodies, and art worlds. My practice of making is committed to elevating social change as both collective and individual action in an interdependent world.
In quilting I find beauty and liberation in the ability to take something apart in order to create something new and the knowledge that amidst constraint and chaos we have an abundance of choice in how we produce meaning, objects, and social lives. I find further inspiration in depression era quilting and the women labor movement’s call for “bread and roses:” life should be beautiful as well as just. So I use my hands to make cloth that touches our skin and inhabits our lives: to turn the results of my own consumption away from excess and back into objects I hope are of comfort, beauty, and meaning for others.
As a weaver and dyer I give preference to natural fibers and to supporting small scale and socially responsible producers. I also use donated mill ends and upcycle other fabrics. I prioritize natural over chemical dyes.
