Craft Culture Tours the USA to Document Fiber Artists and Comes to the Midwest!

Craft Culture Tours the USA to Document Fiber Artists

Daniella Cortez is taking a three-week, nine-city tour this summer to
promote, interview and document knitting and spinning’s cultural and
ethnographic significance.

Daniella Cortez, the driving force behind the wickedly smart podcast, Craft Culture, is taking to the road on July 1st, traveling through nine cities in the eastern USA to interview and document the cultural significance handcrafts have played in modern society.

It began with a dream, and the idea that most of academia hadn’t properly examined handcrafts’ impact on the culture at large. She wanted to travel, talk to the knitters on a personal level, and interact with local groups to find the ways they were unique to a specific region, as well as the ways they were the same. In effect, she wants to investigate the common threads that hold us together as a community, even when separated by distance or demographics.

Far from being dry and stuffy, there are planned events at local yarn stores in each of the nine cities, interviews one-on-one, and visits to stitching groups and prayer shawl ministries. Dani will be keeping a detailed log of her travels in blogs, podcasts and videocasts from the road.

The nine cities slated for the tour are:
Las Vegas, NV
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Omaha, NE
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
Newark, NJ
Washington, DC
Greensboro/Raleigh, NC

For additional information on the tour, or to schedule an interview with Daniella, contact Amy Brown or visit www.craftculturecollective.com

Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair 2010 July 16 - 18 at Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake Illinois

Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair
July 16-18, 2010
Lake County Fairgrounds
Grayslake, Illinois

Web-site: www.fiberandfolk.com

"Come Celebrate the Work of our Hands!" Join us this summer at the Lake County Fairgrounds for the 4th Annual Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair and SEIZE THE DAY! You could spend a whole weekend... you see, we believe a fair should fuel ALL your passions and ignite ALL your senses...

Beverly Hills Yarn Fest 2010 April 11 at the Beverly Art Center in Chicago Illinois

Beverly Hills Yarn Fest
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Beverly Art Center
2407 W. 111th St
Chicago, Il 60643

Time: 11am - 5pm
Admission: $2

Featuring: The Fold; Pattern Tamers; Lucky Penny; Knit Spin Home Spun Yarns - hand dyer, soaps, Small Wonders - hand dyer; Knitter’s Journey - knitted wire jewelry kits; Passion Knit - bags, stitch markers; Carrie Notari - Notari Studio - Glass Tile Jewelry; Dana Reed Designs - Jewelry; Emily Parson - hand dyer; Piddleloop bags; Lindsay Obermeyer - knit/crochet designer/author; Halo’s of Hope; Grinning Gargoyle - hand dyer; My Sister’s Knits; Spin Span Spun - hand dyer; Bykes - hand dyer/stitch markers; Studio June Yarn - hand dyer; Symmetry - Nutritional Supplements; Windy City Knitting Guild; Raffle Prizes; Cafe 103 - food/drinks; Cookie Ladies - sweet treats; Chair Massages by Erin Kelly

This event is being sponsored by:
My Sister’s Knits
9907 S. Walden Parkway
Chicago, IL 60643
Phone: 773-238-4555
Email: mysistersknits [!at] sbcglobal.net
Please contact the shop for any questions.