About
"The Town With One Side"
The Town With One Side is a multimodal research–creation project that begins with 1890s lithographic toy patterns from Arnold Print Works—a factory connected to Clegg’s family history, and which is now the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. By centering on the sewn, stuffed toys produced from these patterns and situating them alongside contemporary print-on-demand ephemera, tracing the obsolescence of APW’s machinery, gathering worker stories, and examining social prejudices embedded in mass-production, the project interrogates the concept of “sidedness” in both form and narrative. Based in practice-based scholarship and interdisciplinary dialogue, The Town With One Side will culminate in a sculptural installation and accompanying monograph that reveal how industrial object-making legacies linger materially and metaphorically, deepening our understanding of technology, labor, cultural memory, and art.
Sally Clegg is a Lecturer III, Stamps School of Art & Design .
