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# Applications Open for MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/applications-ma-critical-historical-craft-studies-warren-wilson-college-2019/
- Published: 2018-10-30T16:42:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:44:41.000Z
- Description: A low-residency format to build the field of craft studies.
- Author: Warren Wilson College
- Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, Asheville, North Carolina, Warren Wilson College, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Archives, Warren Wilson College.

Craft is everywhere these days, from museums to Etsy, artisanal businesses to art schools, maker spaces to heritage practices around the globe. Alongside making, a burst of academic and museum attention in recent decades is shaping a new field: craft studies.

Warren Wilson College offers the first and only [low-residency MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies](http://bit.ly/2SoIF4a?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the US. This format enables students to pursue graduate studies without relocating or leaving current employment. Students begin the 2-year program each semester in intensive on-site residencies, alternating between July on the Warren Wilson campus, and January in downtown Asheville, at the Center for Craft.

Residencies initiate a semester of study of craft history and theory, research methods, and materials labs. Research as an applied practice connects students’ project work in the Swannanoa/Asheville area to their individual research interests. Final projects, which can take a number of forms from an exhibition to writing, podcasts to curriculum redevelopment, are presented in a 5th residency and public colloquium with program Founding Partner, Center for Craft.

International faculty connects to craft through multiple disciplines. Students investigate research methods from navigating archives to research interviews; public modes of presenting craft from street fairs to exhibitions; forms of writing from exhibition reviews to academic journal articles; and alternative forms of documenting and communicating histories, such as podcasts, symposia, online platforms, and curricular development.

The priority application deadline is February 1 to be considered for merit-based scholarships and financial aid; classes begin July 2019.

**For more information, visit** [**warren-wilson.edu/craft**](http://bit.ly/2SoIF4a?ref=hyperallergic.com) **or email admit@warren-wilson.edu.**

**Follow the program on Instagram** [**@macraftstudieswwc**](http://bit.ly/2Az6JdC?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**