Sara Trail is a quilter and educator and the founder of Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA). This grassroots organization facilitates workshops and projects that create community while addressing the consequences of systematic oppression. Read what Sara is currently reading and listening to and how her work with SJSA nourishes herself and her community.

Ava Roth is a Toronto-based encaustic painter, embroiderer, and mixed-media artist who works in tandem with honeybees to create art objects embedded in honeycomb. She lets us know what artists are really catching her attention right now, and how the idea of “nourishment” has changed for her over the past year.

Dianne Nordt is a textile artist based in Virginia who handweaves blankets using naturally dyed wool from sheep she raises on Nordt Family Farm. Nordt shares how keeping sheep year-round has helped her gain perspective, and tells us how her blankets provide nourishment for the land, her flock, herself, and the lucky people who have one in their homes.