Scheduled #DHMakes Methodz Talks
Upcoming events
✨🐑✨Amy Earhart: 'Shepherding as Making: Bootstrapping as a model for digital humanities & the fiber arts'
- Date: 04/24/2026
- Time: 3:30 PM Eastern / 2:30 Central / 12:30 Pacific
- Zoom link: Sign up here before the day of the talk to receive the Zoom link on the morning of the talk.
- Zoom event taught by Amy Earhart: “Shepherding as Making: Bootstrapping as a model for digital humanities and the fiber arts”
Amy Earhart will be discussing how her lifelong shepherding skills have influenced her ability to make within the digital humanities. She will talk about the processes of lamb to final wool production, emphasizing the ways that making is part of shepherding and knitting as well as academic knowledge production. Amy promises to include a visit with a new born lamb! 🐑🐑🐑
Recent events
✨🧦✨Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks
Date: 10/15/2024Time: 3-3:30pm ET- Zoom event already happened! Zine version, based on Sam’s talk+slides, zine-ified by Amanda. Slides!
- Zoom event taught by Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks.
✨📚✨Claudia Berger on zine-making
Date: 10/31/2024Time: 3-3:30pm ET- Zoom event already happened! Zine capturing the event, cited tools/zines/links etc. will be posted here and on social media using #DHmakes when it’s ready.
- Zoom event taught by Claudia Berger on zine-making.
✨🪡✨Alex Wingate on English paper piecing
Date: 11/14/2024Time: 2:30-3pm ET- Zoom event already happened! Slides! Zine capturing the event will be posted here and on social media using #DHmakes when it’s ready.
- Zoom event taught by Alex Wingate on English paper piecing.
✨🧶✨Alisa K. Beer on hand spinning
Date: January 16, 2025Time: 2:30pm-3pm Eastern- Zoom event already happened!
- Zoom event taught by Alisa K. Beer on hand spinning! Thanks to Katina Rogers for facilitating.
- “Spindle Spinning: Resources & Recommendations” trifold brochure by Alisa K Beer is a great set of resources etc. she discussed in her talk! A zine capturing the event will also be posted here and on social media using #DHmakes, when it’s ready.
✨📚✨#DHMakes Book Club Zoom on crafting+activism, with Claudia Berger
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025Time: 3-3:45pm Eastern (45 minutes)- Zoom event already happened
- Zoom event led by Claudia Berger on Shannon Downey’s Let’s Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change!.
✨🧶✨Sean M. Keenan on Tatting
Date: Thursday, March 3rd, 2025Time: 3pm-3:30pm Eastern- Zoom event already happened!
- Zoom event taught by Sean M. Keenan on tatting!
- Resources and a zine of the event will eventually be linked here, once I’ve completed it.
✨🪡✨Mend-Along! Sashiko & similar methods
Date: May 1, 2025Time: 3-3:30pm ET- Zoom event already happened!
- Zoom event & mend-along led by Claudia Berger with Sean Keenan and Peter Binkley on sashiko-inspired mending methods.
- Resources and a zine of the event will eventually be linked here, after the event is over:
- “Sashiko Knees” by Peter Binkley: data table and photos tracking success of sashiko mending attempts at holding up to clothing use
- Zine etc.: to come!
About # DHMakes Methodz Talks
(Previously monthlyish, during 2024-2025—now jsut as folks have capacity to run ‘em) 30min informal, low-effort way to help folks discover methods that might interest them & how to dip their toes in. I (Amanda) am not currently organizing more myself, but you can! Interested folks, email Visconti [at] Virginia.edu if you’d like to teach one. I can add it to this site, help with social media (including sending to the small listserv of folks who asked to receive 1 email every time we announce a new upcoming talk), and attend if I’m free at the time you choose.
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”?
For the first three talks, I took notes during the talks, to turn into miniZine drafts to credit & be approved by the speaker, and be via ZineBakery.com and the Scholars’ Lab free public zine distro. We finished one and have two almost! done!. I also took notes for the next couple talks, which I may zine if time ever allows. Anyone is very welcome to zine these for us—I don’t have capacity to keep up, and more zinemakers and zines in the world is a lovely thing. (You’re welcome to use our existing zine as a model!)
What is “#DHmakes”?
#DHmakes is loosely folks in digital humanities/libraries/academia/learning-work who craft/make (including as non-job hobby), open to anyone interested. We use the #DHmakes hashtag to share our in-progress make/craft work, ask questions, cheer each other on, and collaborate (e.g. on conference sessions, craft projects, writing). A couple of us blogged more about #DHmakes—what it is, why it’s cool, how to get involved.
Check out the Bluesky #DHmakes feed. If you aren’t on Bluesky, check out Amanda’s friendly Bluesky quickstart & detailed guides which are updated regularly and especially aimed at folks in academic, GLAM, DH, and related knowledge work. And let Amanda know if you join so they can follow you!
(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.)