All the stream that’s roaring by
Came out of a needle’s eye;
Things unborn, things that are gone,
From needle’s eye still goad it on.
– W.B. Yeats, “A Needle’s Eye”
I have always been interested to discover the intersections between art and daily life, and I found that craft bridges these spheres in a particularly democratic fashion. This exhibition in particular started from an observation that craft-making is an act of claiming agency, and I was eager to explore craft in all its forms in hopes of discovering how that is. Through the course of developing this exhibition, I tried my hand at many different crafts and what I found through some successes and many failures is that the outcome matters less than the effort. It is in the act of making where the power of craft resides, and I would encourage every one to see for themselves what I mean.
I want to thank Neely McNulty, Amelia Kahl, and Alison Palizzolo for their support in developing this exhibition.