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6° - Craft Contemporary: To the Past, Towards the Future

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Craft Contemporary
To the Past, Towards the Future

How does the institution evolve over time? Upon its founding as the Egg & the Eye by Edith Wylie, the institution’s goal was always to highlight marginalized, and global, art. Over the course of its 55-year history, however, the institution has had to resolve some of the problematic aspects of its legacy in order to create a more democratic public space. Some of the steps that the museum has taken include: transforming from a private to a public non-profit model, deaccessioning its permanent collection, and changing its name from Craft & Folk Art Museum to Craft Contemporary. After confronting its past, how can Craft Contemporary continue to evolve in the future? How can the field as a whole start to move away from one central, and Eurocentric, narrative in order to relocate craft in the multiplicities of local narratives?

PANELISTS
Holly Jerger
Exhibitions Curator,
Craft Contemporary

Namita Gupta Wiggers
Director of the MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Craft Scholar, and Curator

Alma Ruiz
Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Management of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University, and independent curator

MODERATOR
Andres Payan Estrada
Curator of Public Engagement, Craft Contemporary

A VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM

6° : TO THE PAST, TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Saturday, September 19, 2020

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

6° is a single-day virtual symposium bringing together six L.A. non-profit art organizations. Tune in for individually presented programs from each institution, as we aim to begin a collective and open conversation around racial inequalities in the art world. Find more details at 6degrees.la and tune in this Saturday from 10 AM – 5 PM PST!

6° Program:
10 AM – Materials & Applications Organizing as Architectural Labor
11 AM – Art + Practice Making L.A. Arts Education More Equitable
12 PM – NAVEL This Must Be The Place: Practicing Divestment, Investment, and Sharing Power
2 PM – Lookout FM
3 PM – Craft Contemporary To the Past, Towards the Future
4 PM – ICA LA Support for Coalitions / Coalitions for Support