Who, me?
I’m a maker: I make art. I make crafts. I make food. Sometimes I make sense. Other times I make nonsense. I make believe. I make bad jokes, and terrible puns. I make time to practice so that I can make perfect. I make friends who make trouble. I make messes. I make mistakes but, I always manage to make it up in the end. I make up my mind; some days faster than others. Sometimes, I even make money. Who, me? Yeah, I make things.
Artist Bio:
Nora Renick Rinehart is an Assistant Professor in Craft, teaching in NSCAD’s Textiles department. With a BFA in Fibers from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has spent over 15 years working in various textiles-related jobs. Nora currently resides in so-called Halifax, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. In her spare time, she helps run Queer Hockey Nova Scotia – a by-queer-for-queer hockey organization in Kjipuktuk/Halifax – and chases her two rambunctious kittens, Commodore Dewey Rinehart II and Hot Sauce.
Nora’s current research investigates the overlaps between autotheory, phenomenology and queer theory which is, basically, a fancy way of saying “the experience of being professionally gay”. Nora combines studio practice – textile design, quilting, sculpture and fashion – with reading a broad range of academic and not-so-academic sources and writing to produce engaging works that appeal to wide audiences. She also strongly considers her pedagogy to be an integral facet of her research.