Diana Weymar | Subversive Suburban Housewife

Subversive Suburban Housewife, 2020
Embroidery on linen
13 x 13 inches
Edition of 26
Stitched in New York City

The “suburban housewife” will be voting for me. — Donald J. Trump, Tweet, August 12, 2020

SUBVERSIVE SUBURBAN HOUSEWIFE

Planthouse is pleased to announce the publication of Housewife by Diana Weymar, published in an edition of 26 on the occasion of her exhibit at the gallery Tiny Pricks Project, October 22 – November 21, 2020.

Tiny Pricks Project is a public art project created in 2018 and curated by Diana Weymar that is now a collection of over 3,500 pieces. Contributors from around the world stitch are stitching Donald Trump’s words into vintage textiles, creating the material record of the language of his presidency and of the movement against it. Tiny Pricks Project holds a creative space in a tumultuous political climate. The collection counterbalances the impermanence of Twitter and other social media, with the textiles that embody warmth, craft, permanence, civility, and a shared history. The daintiness and integrity of each piece stand in stark contrast to his presidency.

Diana Weymar is an artist and activist. She grew up in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia, studied creative writing at Princeton University, and worked in film in New York City. She has created projects with Build Peace (in Nicosia, Bogota, Zurich, Belfast and the US/Mexico border), the Arts Council of Princeton, the Nantucket Atheneum, the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst, the University of Puget Sound, The Zen Hospice Project (San Francisco), the Peddie School, Open Arts Space (Damascus, Syria), Trans Tipping Point Project (Victoria, BC), New York Textile Month, Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), The Wing (NYC and SF), and Alison Cornyn’s Incorrigibles project, as well as Syrian journalist and activist Mansour Omari. She is a judge / presenter for All Stitched Up at the University of Puget Sound.