Join us for a conversation between makers, teachers, historians, and community leaders exploring pivotal schools and other sites that have shaped craft—understood expansively—in the United States over the last century. Where is craft taught? In what ways does place matter to craft learning? And how do we access these places—or are there barriers in the way?
This is the second of three conversations related to “Craft Schools,” a multiyear project encompassing public programs with artists across the US, artwork acquisitions to enhance MFA Boston’s contemporary craft collection, and, ultimately, a publication framing modern-day craft as inclusive and alive—inside and outside the walls of museums.
Namita Gupta Wiggers, craft historian and curator
Jenny Williams, teacher, weaver, and Nez Perce tribal member
Alison Croney Moses, artist and associate director of the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts
Aaron Beale, director of Berea College Student Craft
Moderated by Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts