Join artist, craftivist, author, and creator of Tiny Pricks Project Diana Weymar  in conversation with Joyce Wieland: Heart On curators Georgiana Uhlyarik and Anne Grace.  Through stitching quotes on repurposed textiles,  Weymar’s work invites the viewer to think, consider current political discourse, and take creative action.  In collaborative conversation with the curators, they will make connections to Joyce Weiland’s artwork and feminist practices through materiality and content.  Weymar will have a few of her works on display to look at during the talk.

During this conversation, makers are encouraged to bring their stitching projects to work on while listening.  If bringing a project, you are asked to bring projects that only use synthetic materials, no larger than 9 x 12 inches, and bring them in a sealed plastic bag.  We kindly ask that the work goes back in the bag after the talk.  The reason for asking for synthetic materials in a sealed bag is to help with conservation efforts as bugs like to travel and hide in natural materials.  Bugs and pests in an art museum are not good for the artwork. 

Diana Weymar is an artist and activist. She is the author of Crafting A Better World.

She grew up in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia, studied creative writing at Princeton University, and worked in film in New York City. 

She has worked on projects with Build Peace (in Nicosia, Bogota, Zurich, and Belfast), the Arts Council of Princeton, the Nantucket Atheneum, the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst, the University of Puget Sound, The Zen Hospice Project (San Francisco), the Peddie School, Open Arts Space (Damascus, Syria), Trans Tipping Point Project (Victoria, BC), New York Textile Month, Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), The Wing (NYC and SF), and Alison Cornyn’s Incorrigibles project, as well as Syrian journalist and activist Mansour  Omari. She is a judge / presenter for All Stitched Up at the University of Puget Sound. 

Diana is the creator and curator of Interwoven Stories and The Tiny Pricks Project, both of which are open for public participation. Her work has been exhibited and collected in the United States and Canada.