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Visual artist tells women’s stories in crochet, Women Writing Women
Aze Ong has been crocheting since she was 12. Growing up, she perfected the craft that, nine years ago, she told her father that this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. “His face turned into a question mark,” said Ong metaphorically of her father’s reaction to her life-plan. “(But) […]
‘Fabric of Being’: Asian, African Artists Connect Fabrics and People, Today Line
Twenty-five years ago, the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo came out with the iconic declaration that the “world population is not a balance sheet but a rich tapestry of people’s lives”. It came out with the conviction that women and girls belong squarely at the center of development; people first, […]
The Fabric of Being: Textiles, Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Nairobi Summit
Textiles are inextricably linked to our lives, essential to our survival and powerful signifiers of our existence. In the Fabric of Being textile exhibition at the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit, renowned artists and designers from Africa and Asia reflect upon womanhood, women’s rights, gender equity, fertility, contraception, diversity, violence against women and other issues that both […]