Lady Kitt  2021-ongoing
Socially engaged craft project exploring planet-kind drag, drag as folk art and LGBTQIA+ environmental activism

2021-23 Commissioned by Craftspace, Birmingham, in partnership with The Civic, Barnsley, UK

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ACE Proejct Grant 2024-25

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Lady Kitt Sarah Li 2021-22
Socially engaged craft project exploring LGBTQ+ history in the Midlands
Commissioned as part of Meeting Point 4 by Arts & Heritage and Warwickshire County Records Office

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ACE funded R&D project 2020-21

AHRC funded commission 2021-22

Exploring collaborative craft as a catalyst for organisational policy change

Supported by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), East Street Arts (Leeds) and Flat Time House (London).

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2020-22

A participatory, digital space devised by Lady Kitt

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Created in collaboration with Art Matters Now and members of the DGA, as part of  “Objects of Consent” an ongoing project initiated in 2019

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Supported by Newcastle University, the Gender Research Group (GRG) and by Ampersand Inventions at Orbis

 

Launch Feb, 2021

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Social Making with Social Distance

A socially engaged, live-art craft project

A socially engaged live-art / craft project conceived and facilitated by Lady Kitt

Produced by Sarah Li

Supported through commissions from Norfolk Street Arts, Durham University and disabled artist led consortium Disconsortia 

April-Nov, 2020

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A socially engaged commission by

Thought Foundation, Birtley ,UK

as part of CRAFT,

Feb-April, 2020

Creating a giant paper installation (a collaboratively made, Joss inspired shrine to endangered animals and disappearing environments), followed by ceremonial paper burning. Click image for link to more info.

A socially engaged commission as

part of Conny Art Festival,

Consett, UK

October, 2019

Walking, talking, collaborative making and giant origami boat races.

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A research and support project for socially engaged craft / art practitioners, facilitated by Dan Russell and Lady Kitt.

2018- ongoing

Supported by Axieweb, The NewBridge Project and NECP.

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A socially engaged research project with Byker Community Centre ,UK

2016-18,

Working alongside staff, volunteers, local people  and composer Bridie Jackson to create a written, drawn and sung manifest investigating, celebrating and preserving the role of Making and Craftivism in the centre.

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