Unknitting Challenging Textile Traditions Author:Kate Bonansinga, Stephanie L. Taylor, PhD. Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions focuses on performative knitting practice in the creation of avant-garde, contemporary sculpture. This full-color publication explores the work of this invitational exhibition that highlights artists who are advancing and questioning established textile traditions. The artists address stereotypes... more » of gender, ethnicity and the ideas and materials appropriate for art making. They hail from the United States,Mexico and the United Kingdom, all cultures that have strong yarn-based craft traditions. All of the artists upend those traditions through challenges to the domestic-based, utilitarian and female-made objects that are typical of the knitted crafts. UnKnitting questions traditions and assumptions about who produces knitted objects, and how the objects can and should be used. Unknitting artists: Adrian Esparza, United States; Rachel Gomme, United Kingdom; Mark Newport, United States; and Sandra Valenzuela, Mexico.« less