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Join Gale Zucker, photographer and co-author of the book, Craft Activism: People, Ideas, and Projects from the New Community of Handmade and How You Can Join In , for a slide talk celebrating the power of handmade. She and co-author Joan Tapper were asked to put togther a book for Random House on Craft Activism--with profiles of makers, and projects that crafters could jump in and make themselves. When they asked if the editors had any specific paramters, they were told to go out and define who should be included. This slide talk shares Gale's search for craft activists, and how the book came together.
Craft Activism was published by Random House in late 2011, and was named to the Best of 2011 Books by both Amazon and Library Journal.
Bio
Commercial & editorial photographer Gale Zucker is the co-author/photographer of Craft Activism: People, Projects & Ideas from the New Community of Handmade, (PotterCraft 2011) the photographer/co-author of Shear Spirit: Ten Farms, Twenty Projects and Miles of Yarn (PotterCraft 2008) & the photographer for Mason Dixon: Knitting Outside the Lines (October 2008) and Wear With All (2012). She is widely published outside of the knitting handmade world, from books to The New York Times, TV Guide, Smithsonian, others. Based in Branford, she photographs "real people in real places" for businesses, institutions and non-profits in Connecticut and across the country. When not photographing or making stuff, she can usually be found at the beach or with her family.
Free and open to public but space limited.