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CRAFT, CONSCIOUS, CULTURE:
A SURVIVING APPALACHIA

THESIS PROJECT, 2025
This thesis project examines Appalachian culture through a three-book series exploring craft, identity, and community. Combining photography, interviews, recipes, and archival research, the books document traditions of homemaking, industry, and land. A companion quilt visualizes the research process itself, using natural dyes, traditional quilt blocks, sourced fabrics, and embroidered markers to translate cultural investigation into a tactile artifact of place.

Size:

6892 x 4594 px
4594 x 6892 px

Roles/Skills:

Photography, Book Design, Illustration,
Archival Research, Quilting, Bookbinding,
Assorted Crafting

Early structure sketches mapping Craft's material language and tone
Early structure sketches mapping Culture's material language and tone
Early structure sketches mapping Conscious' material language and tone
Archival research process working with physical slide collections and digitization at Radford University
Testing natural dye processes to embed material experimentation into the narrative
Constructing a scaled interior as a cover to explore domestic space and cultural storytelling