{"id":246041,"date":"2024-12-09T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=246041"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:12:44","slug":"malene-barnett-crafted-kinship","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/malene-barnett-crafted-kinship\/","title":{"rendered":"Malene Barnett Spotlights Black Caribbean Makers In Debut Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 9, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Carlene Olsen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Malene Barnett Spotlights Black Caribbean Makers In Debut Book<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Several years ago, multidisciplinary artist and Black Artists + Designers Guild<\/a> founder Malene Barnett sought to examine her roots, positing questions such as: What does it mean to be a child of Caribbean immigrants? In doing so, she began piecing together narrative threads around migration, identity, materiality, African origin stories, and sustainability while studying ceramics in grad school. “I started to see repeating themes around artists in the Caribbean and in the diaspora looking at unraveling colonial histories through their creative practice,” Barnett says, noting that this furthered her curiosity. “I was looking for books focused on creative practice and process, and hearing from makers\u2014from their perspective\u2014versus looking at finished work… and I couldn’t find the book.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To fill the void, Barnett<\/a> created the kind of text she was seeking. The resulting book, Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practice of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers<\/em> (Artisan Books; October 29, 2024), explores themes of identity and craft on a personal level, profiling 60 creatives of Caribbean heritage. “I wanted to make sure I created an archival piece, not just for my generation and current artists, but for the next generations,” she shares.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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