Critical Craft forum session at caa, 2018
Session 1 of Full Day of Sessions
Los Angeles
2018 9th Critical Craft Forum: Full Day of Sessions at 2018 College Art Association Conference
Co-organized by Shannon Stratton, Namita Gupta Wiggers, and Marilyn Zapf. This year marks an expansion of sessions to a full day on Saturday’s conference at CAA’s invitation.
“CRITICAL CRAFT: DECOLONIZING CRAFT”: SESSION 1 OF 4
Chair: Aram Han Sifuentes
“Queering Craft and Social Practice”
PJ Gubatina Policarpio, Contemporary Jewish Museum
“Art Versus Craft? A Personal Experience”
Marianne Sadowski, Independent Artist
“A Thing Well Made”
Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Independent Artist
“Gentrification and Colonization: What’s Craft Got To Do With It?
Carol Zou, Asian Arts Initiative
Discussant: Namita Gupta Wiggers, Warren Wilson College and Critical Craft Forum
Critical Craft forum session at caa, 2018
Session 2 of Full Day of Sessions
CRITICAL CRAFT: VOICE OF THE OBJECT: SESSION 2 OF 4
Chair: Shannon R Stratton, MAD | Museum of Arts and Design
“Dismantling the Patriarchy One Brick at a Time: Voulkos and the Changing Landscape of Ceramics at UC Berkeley”
Nicki Green, Independent Artist
“Craft as Bridge: The Complex Connections of the Craft Practice to the Object-oriented Turn”
Erika Lynne Hanson, Arizona State University
“Object Lessons”
Judith Leemann, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Critical Craft forum session at caa, 2018
Session 3 of Full Day of Sessions
Critical Craft forum session at caa, 2018
Session 4 of full day sessions
Critical Craft forum session at caa, 2018
CARPA: Craft advanced research projects agency
CRITICAL CRAFT: CRAFT’S EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY: SESSION 3 OF 4
Chair: Marilyn Zapf, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
“The Invisible Women of Modern American Hobby Crafting ”
Susan Richmond , Georgia State University
“Disruptive Cloth Making Practice in History and the Hudson Valley”
Lilly Marsh, Independent Artist and Scholar
“Learning from Petrotextiles: Moving Beyond Critique to Action”
Kirsty Robertson, Western University
CRITICAL CRAFT: WHAT CRAFT ARCHIVES?: SESSION 4 OF 4
Chair: Namita Gupta Wiggers, Warren Wilson College and Critical Craft Forum
“Half Hidden”
Anne Haaning, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION AND MAPPING - LED BY NAMITA GUPTA WIGGERS
CARPA: CRAFT ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY
Time: 02/24/2018: 7:00PM–9:00PM
Location: Craft and Folk Art Museum (now craft contemporary)
5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Reception will take place from 7:00–9:00 PM.
Special session during reception at 7:30 PM as part of the Critical Craft Forum at the Craft & Folk Art Museum.
Chairs: Sara Clugage, Dilettante Army; Otto von Busch, Parsons School of Design, The New School
“Shrink It and Pink It,” Steven Frost, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Done Catching: A Brief Briefing on Progress in the Field + Instruction for New Agents,” Lauren A. Ross
Discussant: Carole Frances Lung, California State University, Los Angeles
RSVP: TBD.