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ON APPROPRIATION: the quiet politics of everyday life
ON APPROPRIATION: the quiet politics of everyday life
|jennifer dowland
my work uses appropriation as a way of thinking critically about culture and power. by drawing from found fabrics, personal imagery, and domestic materials, i recontextualize objects that carry overlooked... READ MORE...
REASSMBLY: adaptive reuse in art
REASSMBLY: adaptive reuse in art
|jennifer dowland
VALID BANALITIES adaptive reuse is usually defined as an architectural strategy: the transformation of an existing building into something new without erasing its past. but long before architects embraced this... READ MORE...
on nostalgia: a case for creative inheritance
on nostalgia: a case for creative inheritance
|jennifer dowland
nostalgia, in my work, operates less as sentiment and more as an interpretive framework — a way of understanding how images circulate, accrue meaning, and shape personal and collective memory.... READ MORE...
ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE
ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE
|jennifer dowland
artist support pledge for small quilted wall art READ MORE...
WHY SELVEDGE STORIES?
WHY SELVEDGE STORIES?
|jennifer dowland
driven by small experiments — testing how different grains pull when cut, how a layer shifts under stitching, how an inherited fabric behaves when paired with a found image. most... READ MORE...
DOMESTIC STRIPES & PILLOW TICKING
DOMESTIC STRIPES & PILLOW TICKING
|jennifer dowland
DOMESTIC SPACE & THE HISTORY OF PILLOW TICKING & PERSONAL MEANING IT HAS FOR MY TEXTILE PRACTICE. READ MORE...
MOTHER'S DAY POP UP AT TESSIER WINERY
MOTHER'S DAY POP UP AT TESSIER WINERY
|jennifer dowland
A DAY OF MOTHERS MAKING AND THE ART OF SEWING, STITCHING TOGETHER FLOWERS, FABRIC, WINE AND COMMUNITY. READ MORE...