#16: Making Meaning with Claire Wellesley-Smith

Episode 16 of the Making Meaning podcast, hosted by Ruth Singer, titled "#16: Making Meaning with Claire Wellesley-Smith" was published on May 12, 2022 and runs 56 minutes.

May 12, 2022 ·56m · Making Meaning

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Wellbeing through stitch and communal creative practice runs through Claire's practice, writing and projects. She's just completed a PhD exploring this subject in depth and we both love talking about the importance of community making practice, about textile and local heritage and about the power of textiles to change lives in all kinds of subtle ways. This conversation ranges across all these areas of interest and we talk about how our work in communities is so important yet so often overlooked in the wider art world. I was honoured to be included in Claire's recent book Resilient Stitch and I'm also grateful to her for sharing her thoughts on textiles and community making for Textiles in Lockdown podcast which I made in 2020 with Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. That's coming out on this podcast very soon so you can catch up with it right here. Claire has just relaunched her incredibly popular online teaching sessions. Links to all of these are at ruthsinger.com/podcast

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