The Work of Their Hands: The Association of Oil Wives Clubs

Jul. 28

This piece is the fifth in a series of blogs about the Canadian Energy Museum, a small museum situated in the town of Devon, Alberta that has closed due to the loss of funding.

In this blog Rebecca Dolgoy writes about an artifact, hand-felted and sewn banner for the annual Oil Wives Clubs Convention found in the Canadian Energy Museum. to read full article on NiCHE website, click here!

Hand-felted and sewn banner for the annual Oil Wives Clubs Convention. Photo: Jean-René Leblanc. *Used with permission of the CEM.*

Energy Stories Lab

The Energy Stories Lab is collaborative and transdisciplinary, combining ethnography with new forms of art and visualization, including augmented reality (AR), 3D object making, collective mapping and GIS. We highly value collaborative community-based digital storytelling methods, such as PhotoVoice, VideoVoice and also novel approaches to oral and life history.

The Work of Their Hands: The Association of Oil Wives Clubs

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