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Stitch by Stitch
Quilting has a long and rich history integrally tied to community histories and liberation. Through a series of naturally-dyed embroidered mini quilts, Sarika explores how textile artists use their work as a space for creating their own archives. The embroidered quotes on the quilts come from oral histories she conducted with textile artists based in Chicago and New York to explore meaning construction through quilting. Much like quilting, oral history prizes personal narratives and storytelling over linearity and objectivity, and creates a fuller, more embodied history. The act of making the quilts functioned as a means of “stitching together” narratives into coherence.
Sarika Doppalapudi (she/her) is a Chicago-native senior at Gallatin with a concentration focusing on themes of collective memory, embodied knowledge, archival practices, oral history, urban education and textile arts. Her artistic practice is inspired by her research in material waste, conceptions of futurity and community and the history of textile artists that often explores non-traditional archival spaces and their potential as spaces for liberation.
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