Legacy Stitches are needlework pieces made in various forms of traditional techniques like knitting, sewing, crocheting, and latch hook which I learned from my grandmothers who learned from their mothers; as well as traditional Lakȟóta techniques such as beading and quilling. My needlework also includes quilting & embroidery which have been traditional forms in both family lineages and bookbinding.
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Latch 395 is a series of individual latch hook pieces that visually express the data created from my labor of lactation. The weavings exhibited here are only the first eight days out of 395 that I breastfed my son. Each piece represents one day or 24 hours and is created from handmade patterns from the data obtained from breastfeeding him or pumping. The framed poems were written during this time frame.
February 2020, from the series, Latch 395 latch hook, crochet, locker hook 2020 – present W 9’.5” x H 3’ x L .5” |
Photograph courtesy of ASU Art Museum © Shaunté Glover / “Notes on Motherhood.” ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, September 7, 2024–January 12, 2025.
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Cultural Confluence: Part IV
Weaving memories of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future "Megan Driving Hawk works like a busy spider in Cultural Confluence: Part IV, quilting potential meeting points for two beloved cultures still entangled in historic conflict. Through inherited, vintage, and manipulated fabrics, accompanied by her original poems, she explores traditional emblems of cultural identity, embracing diversity as regenerative of communities, achieving harmony though different but complimentary iconic designs. The artist pays healing homage to her Celtic ancestors and her husband's Lakota people, dreaming of the future children of the two as hopeful ambassadors of forgiveness, and thus, change." Ernesto Pujol, Faculty New York, Summer, 2018 In the middle of the blue hand quilted fabric, hand stitched poetry, paint, wood twine 2017-2018 W 4’.7” x H 4'.6’ x L 4” Explore the series here. |
Photograph courtesy of artist from MFA Thesis, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut. 2018.
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