Craft Night with Haptic Labs & Alliance for American Quilts
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Join us for an evening of quilt-themed fun with the Alliance for American Quilts and Emily from Haptic Lab, in honor of National Quilting Month.
When I look at Emily Fischer's quilts, my mind is drawn to the miles of stitches that make up her Soft-Maps (https://hapticlab.com/index.php?/quilts/blanket-maps/), a project she started in 2002 as an academic exploration of "tactile wayfinding" when her mother began to lose her eyesight. Emily is the Brooklyn-based artist behind Haptic Lab (http://www.etsy.com/people/HapticLab), whose studio is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Etsy Labs in DUMBO. She'll be joining us at Craft Night, Monday, March 28 to make quilted bracelets (pictured below) and impart some of her quilting wisdom.
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Prior to the start of Craft Night, Amy Milne, from the Alliance for American Quilts (http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/), will be hosting an interview with Emily, live on Etsy's Livestream page (http://www.livestream.com/etsy). The interview is part of the Quilters' Save Our Stories project (http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/) (QSOS), whose mission is to "create, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory, for scholarship and exhibition. This grassroots project continually captures the voices and stories of quiltmakers and posts the transcribed interviews here." This interview, like all QSOS interviews, will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Join us to see history in the making!
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Where: 55 Washington Street, Suite 712 (7th floor) Brooklyn, New York, 11201
When: Monday, March 28. Drop in between 4-8 p.m.
RSVP here (https://www.meetup.com/etsylabs/events/16959710/).
Webcast: Please join us for a live Quilters' Save Our Stories (http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/)interview with Amy from the Alliance for American Quilts and Emily Fischer. Check out the feed right on the Etsy Community page (http://community.etsy.com/) at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, March 28.
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A soft-map quilt made by Haptic Lab.
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A photo from last week's Craft Night (http://www.etsy.com/storque/events/come-sew-with-bags-for-the-people-at-etsy-labs-12475/).
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Bonus! Abrams Books (http://www.abramsbooks.com/) will be giving away a few quilting books at Craft Night on Monday.
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Craft Night occurs every Monday from 4-8pm ET at 55 Washington St, Suite 712 in Brooklyn, New York. Drop in anytime between 4-8pm to craft with us. Craft Night is a time to make things, learn new skills, and hang out.