Dust Jacket Dusters, 2024
Dust Jackets is an ongoing body of work responding to the history of the Ethnic and Gender Studies Collections (EGSC) at University of California Santa Barbara’s Library.
Dust Jacket Dusters transforms the imagery from two-dimensional Dust Jacket Weavings into three-dimensional, wearable garments.
Cover image: Installation view of Dust Jackets in Fallow, New City Arts Fellowship exhibition, Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 2024. All images by Lindsey Leahy.
Above: Dust Jacket Weaving (A Poetic Equation/Six Feet of the Country),
Dust jackets recovered from the UCSB Ethnic and Gender Studies Library Collection, 9.25" x 21.5", 2024
Left: Dust Jacket Duster Dress, Printed cotton, 2024
Above: Dust Jacket Weaving (Mexican Resistance in the Southwest/ Occasion for Loving), Dust jackets recovered from the UCSB Ethnic and Gender Studies Library Collection, 9.25" x 21.5", 2024
Right: Dust Jacket Duster Jacket, Printed cotton canvas, 2024
Below: New City Arts Fellows M Pittman, eboni bugg, Elena Yu, and Brielle Duflon with MaKshya Tolbert at Fallow opening reception, Welcome Gallery, September 2024