Enjoyed City Lines walk as a part of #openhousedublin today. We thought about sensing and recording the city, then and now. A quick outdoor sketch of the Liberties, outside Guinness

I really enjoyed running a local printmaking workshop with @sarahcomyn.bsky.social
this week in honor of Bloomin’ Crumlin who do so much for their community with cleanups, programming, and plant giveaways. A talented bunch of artists too!

Had a great time visiting with old friends and colleagues in St. Louis to consider the challenges of creative practice as research. We made flag books to work through practices of collaboration.

Had a great time with the team working on creative practice in research culture at UCD.

Our workshop used the rotation of paper flexagons to explore our own goals and hopes for, and barriers to creative collaboration.

Off to a great start!

At today’s “Permacrisis and Polycrisis” conference at UCD, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social and I spoke on our shared experiences of “Crafting Against Crisis.”

Intrepid participants then constellated conference keywords by making flexagon and flag books.

Celebrating the first time bookbinders from the English, Drama, and Gender Studies MA courses, who spent patient, joyful hours learning something new during finals.

This was a really meaningful end to the week. Doubly delighted to share this with so many fantastic colleagues, including my “Crafty Women” teaching partner, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social

Spring has decided to arrive in Ireland

Learning to make wreaths is super satisfying. Highly recommend.

Tremendously proud of Suchismita Dattagupta whose PhD on Black hair in C20 US fiction was conferred today at UCD.

My garden is just about as resistant as I am to winter’s planned arrival. (Picked today)

Alternative Domesticities, which pondered tactics of dwelling, was a real meeting of the minds. Housing equity and migration, “home” as interrupted and unfinished business, hauntings, modernist materials (glass!), and domestic recoveries. Huge thanks to Thresholds of Knowledge and the UCDHI

Librarians are rad. Today Claire Dunne from UCD special collections pulled materials relevant to the literature class on women’s craft I’m teaching with @sarahcomyn.bsky.social Printmaking, bookmaking, lace, botanical collection, scrapbooks… new constellations all around.

Really excited for the Alternative Domesticities Workshop this week! Keynotes by @marygilmartin.bsky.social and Victoria Rosner

New tradition at ours: traipsing through the German forest to collect the makings for some chestnut and acorn forest folk. Highly recommended for all age groups

Enjoyed the book launch for Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Eds Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne)immensely. A huge thanks to the respondents for their incisive comments. What a way to tie it all together!

Enjoying a trip up to Belfast to introduce Philip McGowan talking on Fitzgerald.