Alabama Chanin participates as a featured designer in the American Craft Council’s 2009 conference, Creating a New Craft Culture. The conference aims to examine what lies at the core of being a maker through analysis of themes that study how craft interacts with the individual maker, community, and marketplace as a whole. Natalie’s exhibition and written entry is entitled “The Marketplace and the Personal: A Story of Thread.”
“This thread is going to sew the most beautiful garment that’s ever been made. The person who wears it, it will bring them joy or peace or love or warmth or happiness or healing or any of the wonderful things that you might want to wish for a person.” —Natalie Chanin for the American Craft Council, 2009
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Slides 1–3: Natalie’s talk “The Marketplace and the Personal: A Story of Thread” for the Creating a New Craft Culture conference, the American Craft Council, 2009, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 4: Coat in Abbie’s Flower appliqué, dress, and skirt with cretan-stitched stripe from Alabama Chanin’s Ceremony collection; “Craftifesto” by Cinnamon Cooper and Amy Carlton, illustrated by Kate Bingaman-Burt from Creating a New Craft Culture conference, the American Craft Council, 2009, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 5: Spread from Creating a New Craft Culture conference, the American Craft Council, 2009, photograph by Robert Rausch