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Interweaving: Play, Craft, And Femininity, Glory Loflin May 2023

Interweaving: Play, Craft, And Femininity, Glory Loflin

All Theses

My thesis Interweaving: Play, Craft, and Femininity pulls from the visual language of Craft materials and practices to generate large-scale, often colorful works that reflect on my current understanding of being a woman in America. Raised in the conservative South, this body of work arose out of an attempt to understand the American political climate with respect to women’s bodies and where my artistic voice is present in that conversation. My research for my thesis exhibition began with an investigation into the matriarchal history of craft-based fiber practices in my family. Soon thereafter, I actively wove traditional Craft processes in …


Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood Nov 2017

Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood

Lee Bidgood

Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance, I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state of in-betweenness, in a territory that is between work, play, here and there, self and other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is important for fieldwork, and for music-making – play, I find, is both a central activity and metaphor in both. The bluegrass play I discuss in this essay can become a response to the encroachment of Americanization in economic and cultural globalization, but also a way of being “Americanist” – and entirely Czech.


Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood Oct 2015

Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood

ETSU Faculty Works

Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance, I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state of in-betweenness, in a territory that is between work, play, here and there, self and other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is important for fieldwork, and for music-making – play, I find, is both a central activity and metaphor in both. The bluegrass play I discuss in this essay can become a response to the encroachment of Americanization in economic and cultural globalization, but also a way of being “Americanist” – and entirely Czech.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 07), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 07), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me n' Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 08), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 08), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 11), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 11), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill, Susie Halbleib, and Dr. Shirley Gish at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 15), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 15), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 17), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 17), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 16), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 16), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish, Dr. Louise Caudill, and Susie Halbleib onstage on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 14), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 14), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 18), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 18), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 19), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 19), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 22), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 22), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish, Dr. Louise Caudill, and Susie Halbleib on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 25), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 25), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 26), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 26), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of actors in costume at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 27), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 27), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 29), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 29), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 34), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 34), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 32), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 32), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 31), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 31), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 36), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 36), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 38), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 38), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 39), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 39), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me n' Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 40), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 40), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 41), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 41), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 42), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 42), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 43), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 43), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 44), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 44), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 10), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 10), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.


Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 09), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing Nov 1993

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 09), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.