RIT Crafting Resistance: Make and Take Peace Patches 

What purpose can craft activism serve as an agent of social change? Can craft as activism actually move the needle forward on social progress? Join editor, writer, and maker Hinda Mandell of RIT to explore the answers to these questions. Mandell will demonstrate how craft has been used as a tool to fight against injustice.

During this interactive workshop, we will get crafty making our own resistance and peace patches, honoring the bicentennial of Harriet Tubman and the legacy of fellow Abolitionists and their contemporary social-reformers and human-rights activists. Together, we will celebrate – and witness – the power of craft as a change-agent and as a political tool!

All craft materials and tools will be provided. This workshop is suitable for ages pre-teen through adult.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. First-come, first-served class seating.

This event is sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and takes place at Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC). Both RIT and RMSC are HTBC partners.