Embroidery

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-11-artists-embroidery-radical-ways

'More recently, in the 1970s and ’80s in Chile, women created bright embroideries called arpilleras, as an act of resistance against Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The arpilleras, which memorialized family members “disappeared” by the regime, were so threatening to the government that it became a crime to own one.

In the 1970s, 

feminist artists

 including 

Judy Chicago

, 

Miriam Schapiro

, and 

Faith Ringgold

 used embroidery and other handcrafts to tell powerful and disruptive stories.

Today, fiber arts like embroidery are a growing presence in museums and galleries, and artists use their needles to investigate a dizzying variety of concerns, exploring gender, sexual and ethnic identity, cultural history, memory, and pop culture, among other themes.'

Orly Cogan

“My work explores common female archetypes and stereotypes, the Madonna/Whore, the pin-up girl, the lolita, the femme fatale,”

Why? Use of vintage textiles. Nostalgia. Colourways. 

Elsa Hansen Oldham

Why? Mixed textiles. Subtleties. Simple style reminds me of our computer drawing in 1997. Humour. Feels like they are aged. Tradition vs Spectacle.

Dingda McCannon

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-textile-artists-who-are-pushing-the-medium-forward