Mackenzie Moon Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4680625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mackenzie Moon Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mackenzie Moon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rollins College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles
Textiles, through their very materiality, envelop and connect people. Textile threads result from farmers’ crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and insect colonies, as well as those produced through chemical means. Spinners transform raw cotton and wool into workable fibers. Dyers transform the otherwise neutral colors of fibers into bright and contrasting tones. Weavers, through skillful and creative industry, interlock fibers in ways that result…
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco
Kanga cloths have been central to the lives of east Africans for over a century, serving primarily as affordable wrappers for the majority of women. Existing scholarship on kanga design has focused on the communicative potential of texts on these affordable, printed cloths (Yahya-Othman 1997; Beck 2000, 2001, 2005; Parkin 2000, 2003; Ong'oa-Morara 2014). Discussions of design are largely anecdotal and do not chronicle change over time (Trillo 198…
Converging Trades and New Technologies
Kabas and Couture
The general museum-going public may have little idea of how vibrant and contemporary Africa really is. Thanks to exhibitions such “Kabas and Couture: Contemporary Ghanaian Fashion,” viewers can see firsthand that African fashion systems are dynamic, changing, and thoroughly of-the-moment (Fig. 1).Guest curated by Christopher Richards, University of Florida alumnus, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa in Johann…
The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture (Akou)
This work is a book review considering the title The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture by Heather Marie Akou
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The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture (Akou)
This work is a book review considering the title The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture by Heather Marie Akou
Kabas and Couture
The general museum-going public may have little idea of how vibrant and contemporary Africa really is. Thanks to exhibitions such “Kabas and Couture: Contemporary Ghanaian Fashion,” viewers can see firsthand that African fashion systems are dynamic, changing, and thoroughly of-the-moment (Fig. 1).Guest curated by Christopher Richards, University of Florida alumnus, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa in Johann…
Converging Trades and New Technologies
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles
Textiles, through their very materiality, envelop and connect people. Textile threads result from farmers’ crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and insect colonies, as well as those produced through chemical means. Spinners transform raw cotton and wool into workable fibers. Dyers transform the otherwise neutral colors of fibers into bright and contrasting tones. Weavers, through skillful and creative industry, interlock fibers in ways that result…
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco
Kanga cloths have been central to the lives of east Africans for over a century, serving primarily as affordable wrappers for the majority of women. Existing scholarship on kanga design has focused on the communicative potential of texts on these affordable, printed cloths (Yahya-Othman 1997; Beck 2000, 2001, 2005; Parkin 2000, 2003; Ong'oa-Morara 2014). Discussions of design are largely anecdotal and do not chronicle change over time (Trillo 198…
Art (5 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)