Photo, digitally horizontally reflected for readability, of letterpress wood type arranged to say "Infrastructure is something we owe to one another -Meg Smith" that's been inked in a pink to blue gradient. The first and last letters in "Infrastructure" (I and E) are much taller than the other letters, so they look like they're infrastructure holding the quote up

Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard that says "Infrastructure is something we owe to one another -Meg Smith" that's been inked in a pink to blue gradient. The first and last letters in "Infrastructure" (I and E) are much taller than the other letters, so they look like they're infrastructure holding the quote up

Printed one of my favorite #ACH2025 statements, by @megsmith.bsky.social: "Infrastructure is something we owe to one another" #DHmakes

I led a convo about advocating thru shared governance at yesterday’s #ACH2025 care fair. It struck me how many folks are unfamiliar w their inst shared gov mechanisms or feel disempowered to engage. Despite its limits, shared gov can be a powerful way to fight for small change at the local level

#ACH2025 was all about old friendships. @transbookhistory.bsky.social & my husband @feralresearch.org went to art school together & have been friends since undergrad. @rahulbot.bsky.social introduced @feralresearch.org & me when we were all baby grad students over 20 years ago. Fun connections :)

A colorful grid of photos from the last 7 days of #DHmakes-tagged Bluesky tweets, including watercolor painting for sticker making, floor loom weaving, insomnia visualization embroidery, letterpress medieval dog printing, anti-tyrrany quilt design planning, quilt tapestry, ink drawing conference panels, and embroidering NEH ODH grants visualization.

Friday's #ACH2025 #DHmakes session sharing: @leoba.bsky.social Franken-Book of Hours (binding, remix, gold!); @readywriting.bsky.social's new 4 zines/5 days; @anindita.org's tiny embroideries; @jajrk.bsky.social's feast of a zine (w/spice as sculpture, gastropoetics+cooking, fabric dyeing...); +

So extremely grateful for the entire @ach.bsky.social community. It’s so powerful spending time caring for each other, building solidarity, and desperately holding on to hope and joy. #ACH2025

A final shoutout to @wepm.bsky.social for making our #ACH2025 virtual world a space of community, solidarity, & play. The final dance party was EVERYTHING, especially after such a heavy day. Thanks @apjanco.bsky.social for being our fantastic DJ 👏. That's a wrap! @ach.bsky.social

Thank you to the amazing #ACH2025 Conference Team: @alexwermercolan.bsky.social @leoba.bsky.social @jajrk.bsky.social @wepm.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @regan008.bsky.social @sferna.bsky.social, Andy Janco, Rebecca Foote, Kathy Torabi, and all ACH Exec and volunteers for making this event happen.

Thank you, @ach.bsky.social #ACH2025 team & to everyone that participated in sessions this week to come together in a time where we need community more than, perhaps, ever! And thank you @audinyann.bsky.social for capturing the pure joy of the Work Adventure dance party! #ACH2025

So… I mentioned to the #DHMakes folks at #ACH2025 that I was heading out because M had come home and a house guest had arrived while I was in the session. Turns out @transbookhistory.bsky.social knows many of the folks who were in the session? 😂

Happy to be part of the @ach.bsky.social dance party on this third and last day of #ach2025 ! Thanks everyone and see you next year!

ACH 2025 WorkAdventure virtual world featuring many 2D avatars dancing together amidst multicolored balloons

If you're still at #ACH2025, come to the center of our virtual world for a concluding dance party!

And to everyone who presented - thank you for continuing to do this work so well. #ACH2025

grateful to every single person who helped to organize this year's #ach2025 conference. Running a virtual conference is no easy task. You all did it, under difficult conditions, with skill and grace. ✨❤️🌱🙏

Rows of colorful stitches in the shape of plants mostly on rainbow striped fabric

Hello there, little orange plant! You're a $34k grant from NEH-ODH to @nowviskie.bsky.social for Neatline: Facilitating Geospatial and Temporal Interpretation or Archival Collections in 2009. 🧡 #DHmakes #ACH2025

So grateful to everyone who pitched in to make the @ach.bsky.social community a warm and loving space in the midst of such difficult conversations. Love this group. #ach2025

A wooden multishaft loom with a black and white woven work in progress. There is a wooden boat shuttle with a black bobbin inside resting on the project. A printout of the pattern sits on top of the work.

An overhead view of a weaving work in progress on a wooden floor loom. Black and white thread in a small twill pattern with lots of small, repeating diamond shapes. A wooden boat shuttle sits near the top of the work.

A wooden floor loom with a black and white work in progress. The work is black and white thread in a small twill pattern with lots of small, repeating diamond shapes. The angle of the camera shows the loom has 6 treadles, to be pressed with your feet while sitting at the loom.

For the #DHMakes folks not at #ACH2025 -- here are some recent #weaving update photos. This is a twill complication I'm working on using 8/2 Tencel. Will eventually become a garment, sort of a boxy top? Will see. First time using a boat shuttle, too! It took some time to get used to, esp. left hand.

A tabby cat chewing on embroidery thread on top of a laptop with Work Adventure open

Over at the #DHmakes Work Adventure space, Fry decided to steal and start chewing on the embroidery thread for Pacific region NEH-ODH grants. And we wondered, were the grant cancelations actually some future cat causing chaos with a textile data visualization? We'd understand better if so. #ACH2025

Colorful stitches in the form of plants, chain stitches, or twisted plus shapes.

There was a shout out to @jenserventi.bsky.social for the Institute for Advanced Topics in DH program, and these chain stitches are the first three from 2008: TEI with @juliaflanders.bsky.social, multimodal scholarship, and HPC. #DHmakes #ACH2025

Screenshot of the ACH2025 WorkAdventure virtual world - a pink room with purple rooms. Lots of 2D avatars are gathered in rooms chatting with each other

So excited to see our #ACH2025 Care Fair going so well. What an honor to help create a space to bring people together to build community and explore new avenues for our advocacy @ach.bsky.social

#ACH2025 Care Fair starts soon in our virtual world. Head to the pink quadrant and join us for advocacy- and care-centered workshops on #DHmakes, op-ed writing, leveraging shared governance, and being in community together🫶

Plants embroidered in different colors on rainbow striped fabric

Upper right silver plant is the 2008 $25k NEH-ODH grant to @mkgold.bsky.social for "Looking for Whitman: the Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman". #ACH2025 #DHmakes

#ACH2025 #DHMakes DH Craftivism as Resistance Special session soon!

#ACH2025

@megsmith.bsky.social Like the Rocovery Hub for American Women Writers and your "infrastructure as mutual aid." I'm serious about satirizing the throwback National Garden of Heroes and the data implicit in the list of people offered as subjects for statues. #ACH2025

It was great to take part in #ACH2025 - probably the only DH conference with a dedicated 2D world and pixel avatars! I presented two papers broadly focused on community - one on academic connections on Mastodon, and the other on the newly published Foggia Occupator Dataset.

Tagging for the #ACH2025 folks 💔

Starting off the panel "Funding DH: Past, Present, and Future".

"The theme of this panel is... everyone on it is unemployed." @halperta.bsky.social 💔 #ACH2025

Powerful point at #ACH2025 that cutting NEH is just one more part of the complete erosion of a public good and institutions. And when we do this, the powerful and already rich and prestigious take full control and consolidate all the resources. And the broader public… and democracy loses.

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An embroidery of little plant shapes on a striped black and rainbow fabric

This latest little orange plant is a $11k grant from NEH-ODH in 2008 for @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social project "Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use". #ACH2025 #DHmakes