#craftscape

12.8.2023 Join us for Craft Conversations with the MA in Critical Craft Studies this week! Both are FREE and will take place from 6-8 pm at @centerforcraft at 67 Broadway in Asheville Jan 9 (Monday) Craft Conversation: Tom Martin, Anna Helgeson, and Sara Clugage Jan 12 (Thur) Craft Conversation: Pecha Kucha with the Class of 2023 Miriam Devlin Jill DiMassimo Jennifer Hand Beryl Perron-Feller Rena Tom Joanna Weiss Tina Wiltsie #thisiscraft #whichcraft #craftscape #craft #criticalcraftforum #macraftstudieswwc #warrenwilsoncollege @warrenwilsoncollege @centerforcraft https://www.instagram.com/p/CnJEPOwsXqf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This piece! Cannot wait to see it in person someday @pigtailady and @susiesilbert! #Repost @susiesilbert with @use.repost ・・・ One of the most fantastic aspects of my job is working with the artist for the Rakow Commission. Because the commission is designed to support an artist in working beyond the current capacities of their practice, it is always an adventure of learning, creative problem solving, and growth (on all sides!!!). This year’s commission—the 35th—is a total case in point. We commissioned Anjali Srinivasan in the early days of 2020 to make a breathing wall of mirror she’d been dreaming about for more than a decade. And then COVID hit. And with it, a pandemic greatest hits of delays, really every one you can imagine. The piece is worth the wait. Based on her research into sheesh mahal or mirror palaces in northern India and Pakistan, साँस {Saans} eyes of the skinسانس reproduces the optics of these incredible historic spaces—miniaturizing your reflection so much, you almost disappear when you stand still in front of it. But when you move even a little bit, every single movement is amplified. An incredible meditation on activism, {Saans} reminds us that every small movement matters and is amplified when we work together. For more about this piece—and there is so much more about it—join us tonight in person or on Zoom at 6:30pm. And if you can’t make it (sorry for so last minute!!), it will be on youtube soon enough! @pigtailady @corningmuseum #agrafort #sheeshmahal #craft #craftscape #thisiscraft https://www.instagram.com/p/CkzC4WYsGS4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

11.06.2022 Promised to share this at the panel yesterday. Really good conversations on Craft Schools and Place, organized by @michellemillarfisher at the @mfaboston. Got to talk with Michelle, @alisoncroney and @aaron.beale.1 and to see so many people I miss seeing. Michelle has a gift for asking thoughtful and exciting questions. She always makes me my brain feel nourished and brings beautiful care for being in space, too. MFA Boston staff - while program was so smoooooooth! Thanks for the invitation and dialogue, Michelle and everyone! Cannot wait to see the exhibition …. Best surprise for me — @cal_der, @sluglexa and Allison (who asked a great question) hanging out afterwards with @ms_theotyson #craft #craftscape #criticalcraftforum #thisiscraft #mfaboston https://www.instagram.com/p/CkoN5k0rbbn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This fall I had the honor of serving on a review panel for @centerforcraft with Rachel Winston, Black Diaspora Archivist, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Hrag Vartanian, Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of Hyperallergic. Had to recuse myself from projects connected to students and people I know, of course - and am super proud of how many of our students and alums from @macraftstudieswwc applied (Looking at you, Maru!) Huge congratulations to all the recipients!!!! I cannot wait for you all to learn more about these amazing researchers and their projects. Announcement: The Center for Craft is excited to announce our inaugural Center for Craft Archive Fellows! The Craft Archive Fellowship supports archival research that tells more accurate and expanded craft histories, leading to a more inclusive future for craft. These six Fellows receive a $5,000 honorarium to conduct research and will be published in a special issue of Hyperallergic and a virtual program with the American Craft Council.   Congratulations to our 2022 Center for Craft Archive Fellows: Photos follow this order: Maru López (San Diego, CA) Craft, Lists, and Fairs: Constructing Puerto Rican Identity in the 1950s Siera Hyte (Waterville, ME) detsadatliyvsesdi: struggle to hold onto or cling to one another Elizabeth G. Greenlee and N.E. Brown (Berea, KY ) Black American Craft at Berea College and The Lincoln Institute Jeffrey Gan (Alameda, CA) Craft and Performance at Indo Refugee Community Centers, 1960-1975 Xenobia Bailey (Philadelphia, PA) James Forten: A man of the Cloth, with a Mind of Steel and a heart of Gold Olivia Quintanilla (San Diego, CA) Oceanic Chamoru Craft: Past, Present and Future #craftscape #thisiscraft #tendingtocraft #whichcraft #craftislong #craft #macraftstudieswwc #warrenwilsoncollege #centerforcraft @centerforcraft https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci0DGFtr-v8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

8.12.2022 Returned from MACR Residency with Covid. Still pretty low energy, breathing shallow but inhaler helps. Scott has been amazing, yet again. Posting pics from the last month. This is our MACR office in Jensen, Warren Wilson College. Filled with supplies for Residency (we had to buy all things from dishes to coffeemakers to expo markers to tea back in 2017 - restocked this July). I barely spent any time here. Dani @dani.burke painted it, built the furniture (we didn’t have campus options) and added the rug. Jessie @gertrudepolyester joined during Covid, so working remotely has been the plan. We (Jessie and I) tagged things to store, ship, pass on, and will easily empty this office out by the program’s closure in June 2023. That poster of the questions, Ben @benlignel, from @lisanicolejarrett 100 Questions workshop is brilliant. Was in fall of 2018, still is now. Have to remember to gift copies of Unpacking the Collection from Museum of Contemporary Craft @craftmuseum to everyone in January! 1 open office door 2 books 3 + 4 posters from Mapping Craft and 100 Questions, design by Ben Lignel 5,6,7, 9 + 10 rolls of class notes saved, now documented and recycled from classes with Sarah Khan @sarahkkhan, Judith Leemann @judithleemann, Namita Wiggers (me!) and Lisa Jarrett 9 bulletin board with promotional cards and ROLODEX materials #craftscape #thisiscraft #craftislong #whichcraft #craft #macraftstudieswwc https://www.instagram.com/p/ChK_XcRvfRn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Thank you, Deepali Dewan @deepalidewa for inviting me to the conversation connected to Swapnaa Tamhane @swapnaa_tamhane exhibition on view at @romtoronto right now. Look forward to our conversation with Shanay Jhaveri @shanaypjhaveri on June 8! Link in bio to register! FREE Zoom program. RSVP Required. ROM Connects Reframing Art. Craft. Design Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT Challenging the colonial hierarchical separation of art, craft, and design is one of the thematic notions raised in ROM’s newest exhibition, Swapnaa Tamhane: Mobile Palace – a visual feast consisting of sweeping block-printed and embroidered textile installations. ROM curator Deepali Dewan takes a closer look with special guest speakers, Met curator Shanay Jhaveri and Critical Craft Forum co-founder Namita Gupta Wiggers. Shanay Jhaveri explores how artists have responded to the city of Chandigarh, designed by the Swiss-French modernist architect, Le Corbusier, in the early years of India’s independence, while Namita Gupta Wiggers shares the thinking behind “craftscape”, a term she coined to describe the reframing of craft as something more than just a commodity. Swapnaa Tamhane: Mobile Palace is on now until August 1 2022. The exhibition catalogue, Swapnaa Tamhane: Mobile Palace Exhibit Guide is available for sale alongside Sar: The Essence of Indian Design. Shop online at ROM Boutique. Please email [email protected] for more details. #thisiscraft #whichcraft #craftscape #craft #craftways #tendingtocraft #macraftstudieswwc #warrenwilsoncollege @warrenwilsoncollege #craftscape #craftaction #crafttheory @niamuseum (at Online) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWf7UNJqSN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost @macraftstudieswwc with @make_repost ・・・ Check out this AMAZING opportunity at the MFA Boston (online)organized by Michelle Millar Fisher, Core Faculty on Craft Schools - with participants including our MA in Critical Craft Studies students! Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:30 pm–7:00 pm Online Link in bio @macraftstudieswwc Join us for a conversation between makers, teachers, historians, students, and curators exploring some of the pivotal people who have impacted craft—understood expansively and inclusively—in the US over the last century. Almost everyone can name a teacher who offered transformative access to a creative life. How do certain teachers shape the ways we make and understand the worlds around us? Who are the big names, the unsung heroes, and those marginalized by strict disciplinary boundaries? And who have they taught? In a wide-ranging discussion seeking to answer these questions as they relate to craft, participants reflect on intersecting identities, matrilineal inheritances, and engaging with one’s ancestors as a way to form new craft knowledge. This is the first of three events for “Craft Schools,” a multiyear project encompassing public programs, artwork acquisitions to enhance the MFA’s contemporary craft collection, travel to meet artists across all 48 contiguous United States, and, ultimately, a publication framing modern-day craft as expansive, inclusive, and alive—inside and outside the walls of museums. Adebunmi Gbadebo, artist Beth Lo, artist In conversation with Warren Wilson College MA in Critical Craft Class of 2022: Kat Gordon, Laurin Guthrie, Lexie Harvey, Kate Hawes, Maru Lopez, and Kae Lorentz Moderated by Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts #thisiscraft #whichcraft #craftscape #craft #craftways #tendingtocraft #macraftstudieswwc #warrenwilsoncollege @warrenwilsoncollege #craftaction #crafttheory (at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcN1DM3LaxV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost @macraftstudieswwc with @make_repost ・・・ 3.31.2022 Warren Wilson College has announced its plan to close its Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies program. The program, launched in 2017, was created to offer the first low-residency model for graduate studies in critical craft theory and history. In announcing the planned closure, Provost Jay Roberts stated, “this was a very difficult decision for us to make. The program has been groundbreaking since its inception, and we were fortunate enough to have an internationally recognized scholar in the field to serve as the founding Director in Namita Gupta Wiggers. Namita, the program faculty, and the students have and will continue to contribute cutting edge scholarship that is shaping a newly developing field of Craft Studies. However, the pandemic and the economic slowdown combined with shifts in the graduate school market have made it increasingly difficult to meet our enrollment goals. While we regret losing this innovative graduate program, Warren Wilson will refocus our Craft and Craft Studies efforts at the undergraduate level, and we remain excited about the opportunities for Craft through ongoing efforts in the Art department to integrate craft into the curriculum." The College will continue to support all students currently enrolled in the program toward completion. #thisiscraft #whichcraft #craftscape #craft #craftways #tendingtocraft #macraftstudieswwc #warrenwilsoncollege @warrenwilsoncollege #craftaction #crafttheory https://www.instagram.com/p/CbxTlL0ruSt/?utm_medium=tumblr