Image, Womens_Work_4: Researcher Phoebe Kuo with author Laura Mays interviewing Molly Ferguson in her shared shop in Oakland, CA, 2016 (photo credit: Deirdre Visser), from Phoebe Kuo, "Women’s Work: Transforming Contemporary Woodworking," 10th Critical Craft Forum: Craft Scholarship in the Next Ten Years, College Art Association, 2019. Co-chaired by Jenni Sorkin and Namita Gupta Wiggers.
Craft Futures Fund
2020
Critical Craft Forum: College Art Association Series (2014-2019) podcasts will make an ongoing project publicly available and encourage dialogue about the content through Critical Craft Forum's Facebook group (nearly 13,000 members). Recordings from CCF sessions at the national College Art Association Conferences are not publicly available at this time. By releasing sessions from 2014-19 as podcasts, topics such as decolonizing craft, gentrification, social engagement, gender and more would be available to many who were unable to attend, as well as support educators with their current curricular needs for critical online content.
Selected works
Page 1 of a 3-page letter from Allen A. Fannin to Fran Merritt, Director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, January 19, 1972, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This letter catalyzed "The Black Craftsman Situation: A Critical Conversation about Race and Craft," Critical Craft Forum Session, College Art Association, Washington, DC, 2016. Panelists: Sonya Clark, Wesley Clark, Joyce J. Scott, Namita Gupta Wiggers. Co-chairs: Bibiana Obler and Mary Savig. The transcript from this panel will be available as a chapter in the forthcoming Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch, edits., The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design, London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
Nikki Green, Tablets (diptych), 2017. Glaze on Voulkos kiln floor. 15" x 7.5" x 1" each panel, from Nikki Green, “Dismantling the Patriarchy One Brick at a Time: Voulkos and the Changing Landscape of Ceramics at UC Berkeley,” Critical Craft Forum Session at College Art Association, 2018. Session Title: Critical Craft: Voice of the Object, Chaired by Shannon Stratton. Presentation of a day of sessions on craft at the invitation of CAA; full day co-chaired by Shannon Stratton, Namita Gupta Wiggers and Marilyn Zapf.
Image, Womens_Work_4: Researcher Phoebe Kuo with author Laura Mays interviewing Molly Ferguson in her shared shop in Oakland, CA, 2016 (photo credit: Deirdre Visser), from Phoebe Kuo, "Women’s Work: Transforming Contemporary Woodworking," 10th Critical Craft Forum: Craft Scholarship in the Next Ten Years, College Art Association, 2019. Co-chaired by Jenni Sorkin and Namita Gupta Wiggers.
Image, Aram Han Sifuentes, Chair, Critical Craft: Decolonizing Craft, Critical Craft Forum at College Art Association, 2018. Moderator: Namita Gupta Wiggers. Presentation of a day of sessions on craft at the invitation of CAA; full day co-chaired by Shannon Stratton, Namita Gupta Wiggers and Marilyn Zapf.
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