See below for the speakers, talk titles, and abstracts for forthcoming workshop sessions and to register for individual Zoom events. Sign up here for our mailing list to be notified about upcoming talks and future calls for participation.
Fall 2021
- December 1, 2021: The Industrial Handmade: Craft and Design in Pedagogy
- December 15, 2021: Material Knowledge
December 1, 2021: The Industrial Handmade: Craft and Design in Pedagogy
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Register at crafthistoryworkshop.com/schedule
“Technical Artistry: The Industrialization of Ceramics Education in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)”
Daria Murphy · Independent Scholar
“Crafting Design Expertise Between India and the United States”
Vishal Khandelwal · PhD Candidate, History of Art, University of Michigan
December 15, 2021: Material Knowledge
12:00p – 2:00p EST
Via Zoom | Register at crafthistoryworkshop.com/schedule
“Parelmoerwerkers and Plasticity: Material Literacy in Early Modern Dutch Craft”
Cynthia Kok · PhD Candidate, Art History, Yale University
“Art, Craft, Ecology, and Aesthetics: Ideas on Basketry in Japan”
Daniel Niles · Associate Professor, Geography, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
Spring 2022
- January 12, 2022: Textiles, Identity, and the Marketplace
- January 26, 2022: Beyond the Craftsperson: Craft and the Agency of Materials
- February 9, 2022: Labor and Landscape in America
- February 23, 2022: Crafting Histories and the Present
- March 9, 2022: The Lure of Rural Craft
- March 23, 2022: The Crafts in War and Displacement
- April 6, 2022: Mobilities of Craft Knowledge
- April 20, 2022: Craft Politics in Imperial, Soviet, and Contemporary Central Asia
- May 4, 2022: The Maker’s Hand: Digital Craft
- May 18, 2022: Like/As/Is: Metaphor, Empathy, and 20th-Century Politics
January 12, 2022: Textiles, Identity, and the Marketplace
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Ribbon Skirts and Baskets: Indigenous Femininity in Canadian Centennial Exhibitions”
Lisa Binkley · Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie University
Other speaker(s) TBC
January 26, 2022: Beyond the Craftsperson: Craft and the Agency of Materials
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“A ‘Suave Combat’? Distributed Agencies between Matter, Artisan, and Workshop in Early Modern Venetian Glassworking”
Emily Hyatt · Research Assistant, Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, Heidelberg University
“Materiality in Mexico’s Arte Popular: Amate as a Case Study”
Estefania Sanchez · Independent Scholar
February 9, 2022: Labor and Landscape in the United States
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Fruitful Ground: Craft, Nature, and Whiteness”
Matthew K. Limb · PhD Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of California Santa Barbara
“Broom-Making in Immigrant, Incarcerated, and Disabled Communities of the Early 20th-Century U.S.”
Rebekah Edwards · Associate Professor of Digital and Critical Pedagogies at California College of the Arts
February 23, 2022: Crafting Histories and the Present
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Crafting the Patawomeck Eel Pot: History, Survivance, and Culture”
D. Brad Hatch · NEPA/Cultural Resources Media Manager, U.S. Department of the Navy
“‘A Map is Not the Territory’: Unsettling Craft Histories in Shaped by the Loom“
Hadley Jensen · Research Fellow in Southwest Modernism, Lunder Institute for American Art; Research Associate, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
March 9, 2022: The Lure of Rural Craft
10:00a – 12:00p EST
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Rural Craft Production in Britain and Ireland: The Travel Diaries of Margery Kendon”
Thomas Cooper · PhD Candidate and Pigott Scholar, History of Art, University of Cambridge
“Julia Keiner and the Search for Localism at the New Bezalel”
Noga Bernstein · Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
March 23, 2022: The Crafts in War and Displacement
10:00a – 12:00p EDT (please note shift to U.S. Daylight versus Standard time)
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Renewing, Repairing, Remembering: Craft in Jewish and Baltic Displaced Persons Camps, 1945–1951″
Alida Jekabson · Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
“A New Focus on War Lace: Approach, Framework and Methodology”
Wendy Wiertz · Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, English, Linguistics and Music, University of Huddersfield
April 6, 2022: Mobilities of Craft Knowledge
10:00a – 12:00p EDT
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“A Transitional Artisan: Reclaiming Multiplicity in the Craft Making in Deccan India”
Rajarshi Sengupta · National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra, and Department of Fine Art, University of Hyderabad
“Formalisation and Informalisation: Julaha Handloom Weavers in Colonial North India”
Santosh Kumar Rai · Professor of Modern Indian History, University of Delhi
April 20, 2022: Craft Politics in Imperial, Soviet, and Contemporary Central Asia
10:00a – 12:00p EDT
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Crafting Futures: Dismantling and Rebuilding Histories Together”
Rathna Ramanathan, Joseph Pochodzaj, Tom Simmons, and Eleanor Dare · Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Art, Cambridge University
“The Making and Unmaking of Craft in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union”
Sohee Ryuk · PhD Candidate, History, Columbia University
May 4, 2022: The Maker’s Hand: Digital Craft
10:00a – 12:00p EDT
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Shiny New Toys: A History of Digital Technology in Canadian Post-Secondary Craft”
Lynne Heller, Dorie Millerson, and Kathleen Morris · OCAD University
“Conceptualising Amateur Filmmaking as Digital Craftivism in Queer Disabled Contexts”
Jenna Allsopp · PhD Candidate, History of Design, University of Brighton
May 18, 2022: Like/As/Is: Metaphor, Empathy, and 20th-Century Politics
10:00a – 12:00p EDT
Via Zoom | Registration link forthcoming
“Art between Text and Textile: The Deployment of Fiber in the Southern Cone”
Jacqueline Witkowski · Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
“‘Sometimes I feel that if I am intimate enough with the object it will come alive’: Crafting Empathy in the Late Twentieth Century”
Rachael Schwabe · Independent Scholar
Image Credits:
Top: Embroidered panel, Persia, c. 1610–40. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Bottom: Small egg basket, made by Ira Blount, late 20th–early 21st century. Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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