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1 Each student contributed to a final publication through the Materials Lab courses, and the Class of 2021 presented their research in CraftWays: Tending to Craft online conference, co-organized by The Center for Craft and MACR, Warren Wilson College. The MACR program produced four publications through the Materials Lab 3 and 4 courses. Ben Lignel, Core Faculty, taught the course and guided the publications: Mapping Craft: This is where we meet (Class of 2020, matt lambert, Sam Rastetter, and Class of 2021, Heather Powers, student editors; print-on-demand); to: Craft (Class of 2021, Melanie Goodman, student editor; limited edition postcard set with online essays); and The MACR Papers, an online compilation of essays, in a set of seven publications, each produced by students in the Class of 2023 (Miriam Devlin, Jill DiMassimo and Joanna Weiss; Jennifer Hand, Beryl Perron-Feller, Rena Tom, and Tina Wiltsie, student editors) with one publication co-edited by Ben Lignel and Namita Wiggers. Sara Clugage taught the course in 2021–2022, and guided the limited edition zine: A Joyful Feast: Craft in Moments of Pause (Class of 2022, Kate Hawes, student editor). To access these texts online, see the heading “projects” at https://www.macraftstudieswwc.com until Fall 2024, and www.namitawiggers.com after that date (accessed March 8, 2024).
For information on the online conference CraftWays 2021: Tending to Craft, co-organized with The Center for Craft, see https://www.centerforcraft.org/craft-ways-2021 (accessed September 2, 2023).
2 Namita Gupta Wiggers, “Introduction: Unearthing the Craftscape,” in This Is Not a Retreat, ed. Ben Lignel and Namita Gupta Wiggers, The MACR Papers (Swannanoa, NC: MA in Critical Craft Studies, 2023. https://www.theMACRPapers.com/notaretreat/razdan (accessed February 2, 2024). See also “Building a Craftscape: What is a Field and Who Does It Include” (Warren Wilson College, November 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_2IG7hAdM (accessed January 4, 2024). Namita Wiggers, Andres Payan Estrada, Dr. Tiffany Momon, Courtney M. Leonard, Jovencio de la Paz, and Amy Meissner, “American Craft Forum: Objects Stories from the Craftscape,” Public Program, SUMMER 2021 (June 17, 2021) via Zoom, https://www.craftcouncil.org/programs/forums/summer-2021 (accessed December 14, 2023).
3 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” Public Culture 2, no. 2 (1990): 1-24. See also Lisa Jarrett and Namita Gupta Wiggers, “Teaching Questions: Lisa Jarrett and Namita Gupta Wiggers in Conversation,” in This Is Not a Retreat, ed. Lignel and Wiggers.
4 It should be noted that of the 20 students who graduated from the MACR program, every person had making in their backgrounds, and several held BFA and MFA degrees in the visual arts. The average age of our students was 39. Adults with years of experience and expertise enrolled in the program.
5 For additional perspectives on teaching in the program, see Lignel and Wiggers, eds., This Is Not a Retreat.
6 France E. Mascia-Lees, “American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States” in Critical Craft:Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism, ed. Clare Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). See also Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas, eds., Craft Economies (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
7 Sara Clugage, “This Is Not a Food Studies Program,” in This Is Not a Retreat, ed. Lignel and Wiggers.
8 See “Warren Wilson College receives nearly $1 million dollars to expand craft programming,” Press Release, Warren Wilson College (May 26, 2021), https://www.warren-wilson.edu/2021/05/26/warren-wilson-college-receives-nearly-1-million-to-expand-craft-programming/ (accessed January 15, 2024).
9 See alejandro acierto, “In the After-Thought: Teaching Transparency and the Ongoing Practice of Freedom,” in This Is Not a Retreat, ed. Lignel and Wiggers.
10 Prior to each residency and launch of a semester, I convened Core Faculty and Teaching Fellows online to workshop syllabi. This included using Related Tactics’ Shelf Life as a tool to determine what kind of content was being delivered, and how the readings could be modified towards equity and diversity. With guidance from Kortet Mensah, PhD, the former inaugural Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and Strategy, Core Faculty and I worked to draw DEI through the full curriculum from 2021 through 2022. See Related Tactics Shelf Life, https://relatedtactics.com/shelflife (accessed June 2023).
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Namita Gupta Wiggers
Namita Gupta Wiggers is an independent writer, curator, educator, and artist based in Portland, Oregon. She founded, directed, and taught in the MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, from 2017 to 2023, and served as Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, from 2004 to 2014. She served as the Exhibition Reviews Editor of the Journal of Modern Craft from 2014 to 2018.