Image captions: left: “African Burial Ground”, 2009; right: “Meanderings of an Imaginary River”, 2020 by Valerie S. Goodwin Valerie Goodwin is a mixed media...
Today, National Nonprofit Day, recognizes the efforts nonprofits and charities put into making an impact in their communities. In 2019, Natalie, CEO and...
During the recent Project Threadways Symposium—a virtual event in partnership with Alabama Chanin, Project Threadways, and the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area—several presenters...
Founded in 2019 as a 501(c)(3), Project Threadways records, studies, and explores the history of textiles. Through our work, we seek to understand the impact that textiles...
This story was originally posted on the Alabama Chanin Journal on June 10,2020.. The fabric tells a story. In the careful stitches, the colors, the pieces,...
Founded last year as a non-profit, Project Threadways examines, documents, and records the history of textiles. In preparation for our next symposium, we have been...
In 2016, Natalie wrote the following on the Alabama Chanin Journal, ”In my design training, we never really spoke directly about the cultural...
This story was originally posted on the Alabama Chanin Journal on January 19, 2016. I’ve been reading Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson as a sort...
Project Threadways, as a concept and idea, has been in the works for several years—taking shape in Natalie’s mind for even more. Last...
“These living arts have been passed down by oral histories through generations of women and men—connecting us to our roots, our past, our...