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.