Hinda Mandell, Ph.D., will teach new Fiber Arts classes focused on hand-sewing and knitting when she joins the Creative Workshop during the Spring 2024 session. She is a professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, where she teaches the course “Global Craftivism, Gender and Handwork.”
She is currently under contract (Rowman & Littlefield) for her book Crafting Choice: Handcraft and Abortion Politics in the U.S. Mandell is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); co-curator and co-editor of Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism (RIT Press, 2019); a co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press, 2018), among other titles. She is on the international advisory board of the Journal of Craft & Communities, and her research has been funded by the Center for Craft and Fiber Art Now.
In 2020 she was a guest artist with Visual Studies Workshop, whose residency funded the production of her artist book, “The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art,” which was acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2017, she has organized maker interventions on issues of social reform tied to geographic place reaching 2,000 craft participants. She is on Instagram: @crochetactivism.