On Thursday, February 27, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm ET, the Center for Craft is excited to host Archives in Action, celebrating the recently published research of the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows in Hyperallergic!

The program will include presentations from the Fellows, whose work documents generational and community-shared knowledge of Tsimshian Chilkat weavers, the preservation of Chamorro culture through ancestral objects and craft practices, Jonkonnu masquerade culture, industrial labor in Philippine prisons, and the histories of craftspeople, including the Women Weavers at Little Loomhouse, Texas Enslaved and Free Potters, and Krishna Reddy.

A roundtable discussion led by Lakshmi Amin, Associate Editor at Hyperallergic, will follow.

Be sure to read the articles published January 27 through February 10 on Hyperallergic before attending the program!

Join us to learn how archival research places craft within a broader context, revealing connections between body, memory, and materiality and reclaiming and complicating histories within American craft.

Archives in Action is free to attend.

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The 2024 Center for Craft Archive Fellowship is supported in part by Ayumi Horie and Sara Clugage.

About the Partnership

Through our partnership with Hyperallergic, a leading voice in arts publishing, offering contemporary perspectives that “challenge the art world status quo,” the Fellow’s research is featured in a Special Edition. This strategic partnership draws on the strengths of each organization to decrease physical and economic barriers to archival research, tell more accurate craft histories, and raise the visibility and appreciation of craft scholarship in the United States.

Featured Craft Archive Fellows:

alejandro t. acierto (Phoenix, AZ)

Crafting Imperialism: Philippine Industrial Prison Labor and American Luxury

Michelle Amos and Jenna Richards (Louisville, KY)

The Untraditional and Influential Lives of the Women Weavers at Little Loomhouse

Shilpi Chandra (Scarsdale, NY)

Krishna Reddy and the Printmaking Workshop

Earline Green (Cedar Hill, TX)

Texas Enslaved and Free Black Potters: Reconstructing Deconstructed Legacies

Ruth Hallows (Mesa, AZ)

Weaving in a Good Way: Crafting Chilkat Blankets Among the Tsimshian People

Denali Jöel (Los Angeles, CA)

I Come To (Tryon) Me: Jonkonnu Mask-making as Waymaking in North Carolina

Olivia Quintanilla (Oceanside, CA)

Oceanic Chamoru Craft: Past, Present and Future

Interested in learning more about the Craft Archive Fellowship? Follow the link to learn more.