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A guide for creatives to making impactful, socially engaged art projects. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, The Creative Instigator’s Handbook explores how to take that big project you’ve been dreaming about and actually make it happen. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/23bec155-c5b8-4df2-8585-ec2b1536c9fa/YarnBombingCover.jpg Homepage - Ten years of Yarn Bombing! When Yarn Bombing was first published in 2009, the idea that knitted and crocheted objects could be used as a political act of resistance was brand new. Ten years and thousands of public acts of yarnarchy later, the art of knit and crochet graffiti has entered the public zeitgeist, from the “pussyhat” making the cover of Time to OLEK’s crocheted bull on Wall Street symbolizing The Great Recession: a cultural phenomenon that shows no sign of slowing down. https://www.leanneprain.com/speaking daily 0.75 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/8e315f48-32db-4fb6-b90a-b95527596532/HotArtWetCity.png Speaking - Speaking & Workshops I enjoy inspiring people to look at craft, art and design in new and radical ways. As an author and maker, I’ve delivered over a hundred lectures and workshops at galleries, conferences, bookstores, classrooms and libraries. 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Full-colour throughout and bursting with history, technique, and sass, Hoopla will teach readers how to stitch a mythical jackalope, a ransom note pillow, and mean and dainty knuckle-tattoo church gloves, and encourage them to create their own innovative embroidery projects. If you like anarchistic DIY craft and the idea of deviating from the rules, Hoopla will inspire you to wield a needle with flair! With a foreword by Betsy Greer.. https://www.leanneprain.com/books/strange-material monthly 0.5 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/1646717616519-HCKG56XH301KJR0VM6J4/StrangeMaterialCover_1000pixles.jpg Books - Strange Material - Strange Material: Storytelling Through Textiles This book showcases crafters who take storytelling off the page and into the mediums of batik, stitching, dyeing, fabric painting, knitting, crochet, and weaving, creating objects that bear their messages proudly, from personal memoir and cultural fables to pictorial histories and wearable fictions. Full-colour throughout, the book includes chapters on various aspects of textile storytelling, from “Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power” to “The Fabric of Remembrance”; it spotlights well-known projects, such as the profoundly moving Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as unique undertakings such as Climbing PoeTree’s S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, Mark Newport’s Knitted Superheroes, Tracy Widdess’s Knitted Monsters, as well as poetry blankets and stitched travel diaries. Offbeat, poetic, and subversive, Strange Material will inspire readers to re-imagine the possibilities of creating through needle and fabric. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781551525501 EPUB ISBN: 9781551525518 https://www.leanneprain.com/books/yarnbombing monthly 0.5 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/1646717528732-7IJ0O6FFGRFW0R9F5XE5/YarnBombingCover.jpg Books - Yarn Bombing - Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit and Crochet Graffiti Excerpted in The National Post and Geist magazine Featured in The New York Times on The New Yorker’s book blog Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/5b31f8bb-8e12-46cc-8835-5a8b85772de8/Yarn-BombingCover_highRes-329x300.jpeg Books - Yarn Bombing - Make it stand out Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. First edition. 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/ccd2dab2-ef1e-4ba4-9219-779506ca7495/germanbook.jpg Books - Yarn Bombing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.leanneprain.com/books/creative-instigator monthly 0.5 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62127c1d30781f309c6340c2/1646717411375-8KHEZF2E99M2U6GAPAKE/CreativeInstigator_NewCover.jpeg Books - Creative Instigator The Creative Instigator’s Handbook: A DIY Guide to Making Change through Art 9781551528755 - Paperback