BOOK CLUB

Selections by Month

FUTURE BOOKS

October 12, 2022, WCA-CO Book Club
How to be a Craftivist  by Sarah Corbett

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Our Colorado Book Club will be revisiting our August book in October along with creating a Craftivist project. National members are welcome to join us. 6pm MST

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Our WCACO Craftivist Project: 

Use a 12" x 12" fabric and embroider your statement on the fabric (or use fabric paint). We will be stitching our efforts together to show in an upcoming WCACO exhibition (TBD). Use this book to plan who you will give the work of art to. After the display collectively of our works of art, we will return the fabric square so you can continue the activism. (Such as displaying this at a public building, gifting to a legislator or a group.) Bring your project square and work on it at the book club meeting or be able to explain how your square will come to life.

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“How to be a Craftivist: the art of gentle protest”

PAGES TO NOTE:

Page 167: Five important elements to complement your handmade gifts, and to help strengthen them as catalysts for change – ownership, empathy, allies, commitment, ripples.

Pages 218-219:

• Solidarity not sympathy

• Good intentions are just the start

• Tough mind, tender heart

• Listen to people you disagree with

• Use head, hand and heart

• Keep your message hopeful, positive, timeless – avoid being too vague or aggressive
   

Page 265: How to measure your success. Questions anyone can use to debrief after an event.

Page 285: Wellmaking clinic. How to stay positive.

Middle of book: A Craftivist’s Manifesto

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FROM THE BOOK:

Craftivism = Gentle Protest
The art of gentle protest requires that you don’t maintain conflict, but you focus on a path towards resolution.

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Create caring community, not conflict.

Slowness is vital. Strategic planning, creative thinking and building relationships all take time and, if rushed, are impossible to fulfill. Craftivism and activism needs all these things.

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Sarah’s follow-up book:

Craftivist Collective Handbook

Is available EARLY to those who invest in the book via “crowdfunding.” A $45 ($64.85) donation gets your name in the book and gets you a first edition copy.

Visit: https://unbound.com/books/craftivist-collective-handbook/
“Activism needs to be seen as a normal part of life.”

--Sarah Corbett

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November 9, 2022, National WCA Book Club

Art on My Mind visual politics, by bell hooks

Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community.

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December, 2022, WCA-CO Book Club
Holiday Break, no Book Club this month

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Please join us for the "Live & In-person" Holiday Party on Sunday, December 4 at 10 a.m. and BRING your Craftiest 12 x 12 decorated fabric square.  Please RSVP to Deb Deal - Deborah@ixPowerFoundation.org

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 NATIONAL WCA

Florine Stettheimer: A Biography

by Barbara Bloemink

AUGUST 10, 2022 WCA-CO

How to be a CRAFTIVIST

5 out of 5 Stars

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JULY 13, 2022 WCA-CO

The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

4.5 out of 5 Stars

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JUNE 8, 2022 WCA-CO

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler

by Alexander Nemerov

4 out of 5 Stars

MAY 11, 2022 National WCA

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
by Olivia Laing

4 out of 5 Stars

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APRIL 13, 2022 WCA-CO
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
2.5 out of 5 Stars

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MARCH 9, 2022 National WCA

Gluck by Diana Souhami

2.5 out of 5 Stars

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JANUARY 12, 2022 National WCA

The Heart: Friday Kahlo in Paris

by Marc Petitjean

3 out of 5 Stars

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021 National WCA

we flew over the bridge

Faith Ringgold, memoir

4 out of 5 Stars

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OCTOBER 13, 2021 WCA-CO

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

4 out of 5 Stars

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 National WCA

Photographer Sally Mann's book 

Hold Still 

4 out of 5 Stars

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Paint Made Flesh

4.5 out of 5 Stars

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JULY  14, 2021 National WCA

Eva Hesse

4 out of 5 Stars

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Luncheon of the Boating Party

by Susan Vreeland

5 out of 5 Stars

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Day Book by Anne Truitt

An Artist's Journal

4.5 out of 5 Stars

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sacré Bleu

by Christopher Moore

4.5 out of 5 Stars

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Art & Fear

4.5 out of 5 Stars​

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Miss O'Keeffe
by Christine Taylor Patten,
Alvaro Cardona-Hine

4.5 out of 5 Stars​

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Color: A Natural
History of the Palette

by Victoria Finlay

4.5 out of 5 Stars​

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​AUGUST 12, 2020

Lisette's List

by Susan Vreeland

5 out of 5 Stars

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JUNE ​10, 2020

Book: One Vacant Chair

by Joe Coomer

4 out of 5 Stars​

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​​​JULY 8, 2020

Just Kids

by Patti Smith​

4 out of 5 Stars