Laura Moseley

Laura Moseley is Curator of the Women’s Art Collection at the University of Cambridge and Founder of Common Threads Press. She holds a BA in History of Art from the University of York, where she received the dissertation prize for her thesis Indigenous and Modern Textiles: Ancient America in the Work of Anni Albers and Cecilia Vicuña. She also holds an MA in History of Art from University College London, where she again received the dissertation prize for A Diary of Touch: Rhetorics of Queer Identity in Contemporary Quilting Practices.

Common Threads Press was founded in 2019, originally under the name Made by Women, following Moseley’s undergraduate studies. The project was established in response to a desire to broaden access to art history and publishing, making space for contributors from a wider range of disciplines, backgrounds, and financial circumstances. Early formative experiences included producing zines as a teenager and serving as President of the University of York Feminist Society. The project’s first funding came through the Santander Student Business Competition at the University of York, which Laura won in 2019. Moseley has worked with institutions including the Pitt Rivers Museum, Latitude Festival and the Royal School of Needlework on projects relating to social art histories, activist materials, and political textiles.