Queering Wood Craft Part 13- Pulling the Threads of Liberation: Histories of Queer Radicalism
Queering Wood Craft Part 13- Pulling the Threads of Liberation: Histories of Queer Radicalism | Sat, September 19, 2026 | 2:00 – 3:30 pm | Zoom
The Museum for Art in Wood’s series of conversations with queer woodworkers is back for another installment this fall. Historian of social justice movements, Emily K. Hobson, hosts this edition of the roundtable discussion with leading queer woodworkers and artists in wood, sharing the ways their lived experience impacts their craft, process, and aesthetic.
Join us for this enlightening and community-filled afternoon.
About Emily K. Hobson
Emily K. Hobson is a historian of radical movements in the postwar United States focused on queer politics, international and anti-racist solidarities, HIV/AIDS, and prison activism. An Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, she is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (2016) and co-editor, with Dan Berger, of Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 (2020). Her current research on the history of HIV/AIDS prison activism has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Humanities Center, the ONE Archives Foundation, and Smith College and been published in Signs, Radical History Review, QED, Sinister Wisdom, The Abolitionist, and Truthout. Hobson is an active member of Critical Resistance, a former co-chair of the LGBTQ+ History Association, and a past member of the national council American Studies Association.
This event is free to the public. The Museum for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of it. A suggested donation of $5 per person enables us to provide programs and exhibitions throughout the year.
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at [email protected].