Warren Wilson College proudly announces the release of Mapping Craft: This is how we meet, our MA in Critical Craft Studies program’s first student-driven publication.
“As a cohort, we believe that craft is slippery,” explains the editorial team. “We accept its resistance to being pinned down in all capacities and use this as a strength in our research. This publication will act as a marker of current research interests within local, regional, and global contexts. It addresses partner organizations, prospective students, craft/art/design scholars in the US and abroad who, like us, are invested in challenging the canon and opening up possibilities in and for craft.”
Through interview transcripts, photo essays, poems, exhibition reviews, mappings, thesis excerpts, and essays, Mapping Craft demonstrates how the Class of 2020 critically responds to shifting perspectives in craft, celebrates a diversity of voices, and conveys the experiential and multidisciplinary core of the program. Each purchase of Mapping Craft: This is how we meet supports scholarships for Black, Indigenous, and people of color enrolled in the program.
Warren Wilson College offers the only low-residency MA in Critical Craft Studies in the US. This format enables students to pursue graduate studies without relocating or leaving current employment. Students begin the two-year (26 month) program each semester in intensive residencies that initiate each semester of study. Final practicum projects can take a variety of forms, such as an exhibition, a journal-length article, podcasts, curriculum development, and more. These are shared in a fifth residency and public symposium with the Center for Craft, Warren Wilson College’s founding program partner.
Learn more about the program at warren-wilson.edu and follow along on Instagram.
To sign up for an online information session, email Nathan Wyrick, Director of Admissions, at nwyrick@warren-wilson.edu.
