About the series
Scheduled #DHMakes Methodz Talks
✨🧦✨Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks
- Date: 10/15/2024
- Time: 3-3:30pm ET
- Registration required: register here before day of event
- Zoom event taught by Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks.
✨📚✨Claudia Berger on zine-making
- Date: 10/31/2024
- Time: 3-3:30pm ET
- Registration required: register here before day of talk
- Zoom event taught by Claudia Berger on zine-making.
✨🪡✨Alex Wingate on English paper piecing
- Date: 11/14/2024
- Time: 2:30-3pm ET
- Registration required: register here before day of talk
- Zoom event taught by Alex Wingate on English paper piecing.
About the series
Monthlyish 30min informal, low-effort way to help folks discover methods that might interest them & how to dip their toes in. Email Visconti [at] Virginia.edu if you’d like to teach and/or help organize/moderate a talk, and I can add you to a GDoc to help match up prospective teachers and organizers-moderators (I’m at my capacity limit for organizing with these first 3 talks, but it would rock if others want to make more happen!)
Each Zoom event is 30min:
- One informal 10-20min talk:
- about 1 specific craft/make/art method (e.g. crochet, woodcarving, resin), and
- aimed at “what is this method, why might I want to try it, how would I get started?” (not a tutorial attendees follow, given coordinating supplies is hard)
- Optional 10-20min after talk for questions, working on/sharing your own crafty/makey things
Talks focus on
Discussing or demoing 1 method (not multiple; not expecting audience to have supplies to follow along). Up to teacher, but could cover:
- Why are you interested/excited about this method? Why might others dig trying it?
- What’s challenging about the method, e.g. when starting out? Advice, encouragement?
- Any related personal projects (at any stage of completion) to share?
- Recommend tutorials, other example projects
- Supplies you’d need to try the method more inexpensively
Why “MethodZ”?
I’ll try taking notes during the talks, to turn into miniZine drafts to credit & be approved by the speaker. Could share these online & in public spaces like my Scholars’ Lab zine rack (UVA).
(Keeping the spirit of the DH 2024 #DHmakes mini-conference going! Thanks to Claudia Berger for leading #DHmakes mini-conference facilitation, + to co-conspirators Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Gabby Evergreen, Jacque Wernimont, Jojo Karlin, Quinn Dombrowski! And thanks to participants, too.)