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An exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum highlights the research and community collaboration of urban planning professor Magdalena Novoa, whose work with women in Lota, Chile, explores how traditional textiles can shape cultural heritage preservation and planning. The exhibition, “Memorias de la Mujer Lotina: Arpilleras, Women, and Coal in Chile,” features intricate handmade arpilleras that document everyday life, history, and resistance in the former coal-mining community. Through Novoa’s long-term partnership with local women, these storytelling textiles have helped bring women’s perspectives into heritage planning and policy discussions.
Read the full article in the Illinois News Bureau, Chilean textiles showcasing women’s stories of heritage on view at Krannert Art Museum, to learn how these powerful works of art helped amplify women’s voices and reshape conversations about heritage, memory, and community in Chile.