Welcome to our community directory–a curated collection of artists, makers, small businesses, and content creators whose work inspires us and aligns with our values. While we don’t have formal partnerships with everyone featured here, we believe in amplifying voices and supporting businesses that contribute to progressive craft culture. Browse this growing collection to discover new favorite creators, support independent businesses, and connect with the broader craftivist ecosystem.
Have a suggestion for someone we should feature? We’re always looking to expand this resource. Email us at [email protected]!
Note: Inclusion in this directory doesn’t imply endorsement of Antifascist Craftivists by these individuals or businesses, nor does it indicate any formal partnership. We simply think they’re doing amazing work that deserves recognition.
Currently, most of the craftivists we follow are embroiderers and needlepointers (…because most of us are needlework people). We’re actively seeking craftivists from other art disciplines!
Shannon is an artist, activist, craftivist, community builder, and general instigator who organizes craftivism projects and events meant to provide opportunities for strangers to become friends and for folks to work on further developing their voice and agency.
We absolutely adore Stephanie’s bold, unapologetic designs, but beyond creating some of this year’s most powerful feminist patterns, Stephanie consistently uses her platform to advocate for progressive values, integrating them into her art and business practices. She’s a standout in the craftivist community. Everyone should go follow her immediately.
Steph doesn’t post super often, but when she does, it’s usually about needlepoint and/or craftivism. We love seeing her craftivism roundup videos, where she showcases cool craftivism projects she finds!
From Joann’s ashes, a worthy supplier emerges! Eleanor & Lee is owned by Tashina, a proud autism mama who is committed to keeping crafting affordable. 10% of all sales go toward providing AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) devices to children with autism, helping them find their voice. She carries a growing inventory of craft supplies, including needlepoint canvas, stretcher bars, paint, and more. (She’s a stitcher too, so her inventory is currently most expansive in embroidery and needlepoint!)
Handcraft makers (knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc.) are invited to make Welcome Blankets. They include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States.
Created by Amanda Stern, FAFO is poised to liberate Tesla owners from their Swasticars! Amanda is a new non-profit director who shares every step of her journey on her Tiktok.
Tiny Pricks is a public art project created and curated by Diana Weymar. Contributors from around the world are stitching Donald Trump’s words into textiles, creating the material record of his presidency and of the movement against it.
For the People Artists Collective is a radical squad of Black artists and artists of color in Chicago that strives to make the radical power of art accessible to organizations and efforts that want to build visibly stronger and more irresistible movements for liberation.
The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature. They support artists through fellowships, training and opportunities for activation. They create intersectional stories and content addressing issues of migration, climate, gender and racial justice.
Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times. Their experiments are built on a foundation of free and open source art, the unlimited possibilities within a human centered design process, and the potentials when analog and digital technology merge.
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 41 artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement. They produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.
The Yarn Mission is a knitting collective that is purposefully Pro-Black, Pro-Rebellion, and Pro-Community for the achievement of Black Liberation. They consider it a prime objective to engage with communities to encourage, facilitate, and support collective mobilization.
Design Action Collective began as an offshoot of Inkworks Press Collective (1974-2015). Founded as a “Marxist-Leninist Socialist Feminist” printing collective, Inkworks was a worker-owned, democratically run, union shop that served the Bay Area’s radical and progressive organizations for more than 40 years.
Focused on suicide prevention efforts among nonheterosexual youth, the Trevor Project offers a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors, plus a variety of other services and programs that serve queer and questioning youth.
A4TE was founded in 2024 as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), two long-time champions for the trans community, merged together as one organization. A4TE builds on their successes to boldly imagine a world where trans people live our lives joyfully and without barriers.