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Queer Crip Craft Library

A LibGuide to the resources found in the Fall 2022 Exhibit "Queer Crip Craft Library" by visiting artist Betsy Redelman Díaz.

About

 

Betsy Redelman Díaz

 

Betsy Redelman Díaz (she/her) is a queercrip artist and professor with a socially engaged and research-based practice. Her work explores the intersections between critical pedagogy, intersectional feminism, decolonization processes, disability justice, queerness, and craft, often manifesting in the form of collaborative projects, interdisciplinary courses, utilitarian ceramics, performance, illustration, writing, short films, and long conversations. 

 

Betsy received her MFA in Craft Studies at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2017 and her BA in International Studies from Loyola University Chicago in 2013. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Herron School of Art + Design. Betsy is currently Rainmaker Craft Initiative's 2022 Guest Curator for Conversations on Craft, a discussion series promoting discourse on disability and craft. She has a solo exhibition entitled queer crip craft library at Peeler Art Center that will be up October 31st - December 6th.