Maker Space

Since 2017, Colin Murray has lectured widely in the Department of Art History and in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the language of style and creativity in early modern theory, the discernment and appreciation of multiple authorship in the history of connoisseurship and criticism, and the intersections of artistic theory and practice. Sophie Pitman is the Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and research director of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the Center for Design and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A specialist in the early modern period, she now researches and teaches widely using the collection of over 13,000 historic global textiles. Her current research and curatorial projects explore the making and remaking of textiles and clothing as a research methodology, weatherproof clothing, and imitative textiles. Tianna Helena Uchacz is an assistant professor in the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, specializing in the history of art and craft technology, 1400-1750. Her research asks questions about art media and materials, skilled making, the sensory experiences of artists and viewers, and ways of knowing in cultures across the globe.

This volume charts alternative courses through history via the physical conditions and artisanal ecologies in which cultural artifacts were created in Europe from roughly 1400 to 1700.