Kristin Barrus

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For my January dissertation writing I explored data around the businesses these women entrepreneurs in the Quilt World own. Here’s a few word clouds:

Her products and services
Tasks she hires out
Tasks employees do

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#quiltsky
#women
#womenentrepreneur
#shopsmall

My 2024 presentation on the rotary cutter (object bio, cultural icon, safety hazard 😅) for American Quilt Study Group is up on YT now. Give it a watch!
And check out AQSG - join the fun!
#quilt
#quiltsky
#research
#womenshistory
#iconic

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#women
#poetry

A thoughtful editorial in honor of Women’s History Month by my art student daughter:

#womenshistory
#herstory
#illustration
#culture
#women

Looking at data from my participants’ Gen X media influences via sports, magazines, and teen bedroom posters.

Full disclosure: my posters were NKOTB and 90210. And Mary Lou Retton will always be my perfect 10 score hero.

#genx
#ethnography
#quilt
#quiltculture
#culture
#media
#fandom
#fanstudies

We bump into each other a lot aesthetically in the Quilt World: at shows, retreats, guilds, workshops, etc. We may be working with fabric, but let us not forget its people. ALL kinds of people, too.
Fabric from my grandmother’s and sister’s 1970s-90s stashes (2015).
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#ethnography

More word clouds from my survey data on GenX women entrepreneurs in the Quilt World: politics & books in their formative years, & degrees earned. Lessons learned: these are intelligent ladies who READ a ton in their early years and absorbed a lot of fraught politics for women.
#quilt
#womenshistory

All of February I wrote my dissertation chapter on the barriers GenX women entrepreneurs face. So you could say it was a dark month. However, here’s just one example of how these #changemakers defy the odds and innovate. So inspiring.
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#quiltsky
#womenshistorymonth
#culture
#anthropology

I’d love it if every month, every textbook, museum, publication included, featured and told the story of women. So until they do I will keep writing. And when we are represented + equal pay, we won’t need #Womenshistorymonth. I, however, am having a women’s history life.
Do not erase us.
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Day 2 of #quiltcon

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My first day of #quiltcon!

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This is a few linocuts from my daughter’s thoughtful multi media art. She’s in art school rn and killin’ it. Find yourself some love this V Day with her merch. She’s got water bottles, candles, laptop sleeves, wearables galore.

ZOEBARRUSART.com

#supportsmall
#artstudent
#heart

For my research on GenX women entrepreneurs in the Quilt World, I asked about media influences in formative years. These word clouds visually show some of their answers by topic - movies, TV, music. Larger words denote higher occurrence. What would you add?

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#research
#genx
#fandom

The GenX women entrepreneurs I’m studying for my dissertation aren’t waiting for life to be calm. They don’t wait till they have enough money or know all of the software. They go and get it done to build a biz and contribute to the Quilt World.

#quilt
#bizwoman
#entrepreneur
#craftswoman
#genx

#culture #research #quilting #textileart #quilt #phd #quilts #phdlife #textileartist #anthroart #phdstudent #quilter #quilt #patchworkquilt #modernquilt #researcher #phdjourney #quiltlove #quilted #academiclife #quiltingfabric #modernquilt #quiltart #quiltingfun #ethnography #scrappyquilt

You don’t get views if you don’t climb.

Haven’t mentioned it here, but my college daughter and I climb to a giant Y painted 1.22 miles up a mountain in our area . . . every week. For a lot of reasons. Last week was 46 weeks in a row without missing, 6 weeks straight and 11 times up in 2025 (bc sometimes we hike it twice).

#hike #ymount

Feb’s writing is about the barriers women entrepreneurs hit in the Quilt World. Some are external, some are internal. Anti-women, time, health, care of others, capacity. They negotiate them in diff ways, but overall with patience, loving deliberate lives in an art form they love.

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#research

Went to a gorgeous pottery exhibit about moving through frustrating politics with love by Ben Behunin. I always love his work + this time it’s very quiltesque.

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#pottery
#art

February’s writing is about the barriers women entrepreneurs in the Quilt World come up against.
Some are external & internal forces. Others are anti-women, time, motherhood (not that anyone was complaining) and a variety of health issues (enter complaints here - it can be the absolute pits!).#quilt

In 2020 I was doing my master’s ethnography research at #quiltcon and counted sightings of the tote for that year pass by me 42 times every 15 mins.

And that’s the Quilt World. Culture being born every minute online and off. Quiltmakers SEE!

I’d love to say hi at QC this month in PHX.

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Check out my article in American Quilt Study Group’s 2022 Uncoverings on the Modern Quilt Movement (MQM). It began in the mid 90s in the US and has 4 aspects: the people, the aesthetic, the approach, the community.

I’d love to say hi at QuiltCon.

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#modern

Some thoughts simmering in my writing.

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#craftswoman

Running a small biz takes creativity for the art and skills for the admin, for sure.

#quilt #craftswoman

Will I see you at #quiltcon next month?

The mind map for my dissertation! Top = what influenced my research group during formative years. Middle = my group + research questions. Bottom = the exciting results.

#write #phd #quilt

Hiked to the top of Y Mountain again Sat. More snow than I was expecting, but worth the hard!

#hike #hiking #mountains

Good morning bluesky fam
Credit to sarah