Textile as Narrative and Empowerment

Author Betsy Cornwell ’12 M.F.A. examines the intersections of story structure and textile art and delves into the thematic reasons why textiles are so interwoven with her heroine’s fate in her Cinderella retelling “Mechanica.” How do traditionally dismissed feminine art forms, such as the telling of fairy stories and the creation of fabric and clothing, subvert and reinvent our expectations about serious art? How have fabric and folktales contributed to the way we see and create our own lives?

7 minutes