dandycraft: exploring queer identity, domesticity, craft, and design
As a maker, curator, scholar and educator, Namita Wiggers is deeply engaged with the multiple tiers of craft culture. Her Facebook platform, Critical Craft Forum, acts as nexus of connection for those impassioned by craft across the world. She's graciously acquiesced to answering some questions for DandyCraft about marginalized identities incorporated into craft and her own upcoming projects including a College Art Association forum on gender and jewelry. Enjoy!
Link: Dandycraft Interview
interview with John-Duane kingsley
My name is John-Duane Kingsley and this website serves as a portfolio of professional projects in the museum field. As a divergent thinker, my professional work and interests straddle LGBTQIA+ identity and representation within museums, historic interiors, contemporary craft/design, and public education. Because these topics aren't contained by a specific institution or discipline, I've created this website to serve as a publicly accessible repository for my work from graduate school to the present.
After pursuing an MA in Decorative Arts & Design History from George Washington University, I moved to Detroit, Michigan to supervise the design of custom reproduction furniture and decorative arts for the restoration of Fair Lane: The Home of Clara & Henry Ford. My consulting work for Twisted Preservation Cultural Consulting focuses on interpreting LGBTQIA+ narratives in cultural heritage sites. As a published author, my writing on contemporary craft and design can be found in MetalSmith Magazine, The Journal of Modern Craft, and exhibit catalog for allTURNatives at the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia, PA, and as a contributing writer for the Decorative Arts Trust Bulletin.