PERCEIVED VALUE PODCAST: A Craft Program Closes: Namita Gupta Wiggers gives insight.
Oct 4, 2022
In the 65th episode of Perceived Value host Sarah Rachel Brown connects remotely with Namita Gupta Wiggers. Namita is a writer, educator, and curator based in Portland, OR that Sarah met in Chicago during a conference in 2019. Since that time, Sarah has followed Namita’s work with the Critical Craft Forum and the MA in Critical Craft Studies program at Warren Wilson College.
Having learned that the Critical Craft Studies program would be closing, Sarah reached to ask if Namita would share what her role was as the Director of the program and what this closure means for both her and the students. The conversation gives insight as to how the program was created, the intention behind the curriculum, the importance of understanding budgets, and how the college is navigating the logistics of the closure.
This conversation has been produced in two parts. The extended audio from this conversation is available through the Perceived Value Patreon.