Faythe Levine

American photographer and filmmaker Faythe Levine at the Typo San Francisco conference in 2013 Faythe Levine (born 1977, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American curator, photographer, director, author, and at one time was a prominent figure in the D.I.Y. Ethic indie craft movement. Her work is centered on community, empowerment, and documentation. She grew up in the suburbs of Seattle in the 1990s and has lived in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Birmingham, New Orleans, rural Middle Tennessee, and Sheboygan. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley, New York. Career In 2002, she co-curated Flying Fish Gallery with filmmaker and musician Brent Goodsell. Flying Fish closed in 2003. From 2003 through 2009, Levine designed, made, and sold a small line of handmade goods under the moniker Flying Fish Design. In 2004, she founded a popular Midwest craft fair called Art vs. Craft that was successful for ten years until Levine moved from Milwaukee. Art vs. Craft and Flying Fish Design led to her producing and directing a documentary called Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y. Art, Craft, and Design, independently released in 2009. A companion book with the same title was released in 2008 and publis