Craft Archive Fellowship

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Announcing the 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellows

Teju Adisa-Farrar, Robert Choe-Henderson, Amalia Uribe Guardiola, Crystal Vance Guerra, Trelani Michelle, and Bilphena Decontee Yahwon will publish their research in special edition articles on Hyperallergic in 2026.

Call for Applications: 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship

The Center for Craft will award up to six $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.

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Master Printmaker Krishna Reddy Never Stopped Learning

The Indian-American printmaker’s experimental, collaborative spirit yielded a new method for multicolored intaglio printing and inspired a generation of artists.

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How Craft Helps Chamorros Reconnect to the Ocean

Its contemporary practice reinfuses values into ourselves and our culture, which was deemed unimportant by colonization.

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Tracing the Peacock Chair’s History From Manila to Nashville

A complex web of stories encourages us to reimagine the political weight of an unassuming remnant of craft tradition, born of incarcerated labor in the Philippines.

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Reviving Tsimshian Weaving With Threads of Community

Colonial law forced many of our art practices into a deep slumber. Now, I am the first person in the US from my community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.

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Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives

The 2024 Craft Archive Fellows will present their research on underrepresented craft histories in an online event hosted by the Center for Craft and moderated by Hyperallergic associate editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin.

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The Story of Enslaved and Free Texas Potters, Told Sherd-by-Sherd

There is more to the history of H. Wilson and Co. Pottery and related sites than folklore holds.

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The Women Weavers of the Little Loomhouse

How did three humble cabins in an old oak forest in Kentucky in 1898 evolve into a thriving textile arts community today?

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Crafting Resistance Through Masquerade

Jonkonnu is not just a festival, but a living archive of intersectional Black life that can only be brought to life through those willing to preserve it.

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Announcing the 2024 Center for Craft Archive Fellows

alejandro t. acierto, Shilpi Chandra, Earline Green, Ruth Hallows, Denali Jöel, and Michelle Amos and Jenna Richards will publish their scholarship in special edition articles on Hyperallergic in 2025.

Call for Applications: 2024 Craft Archive Fellowship

The Center for Craft will award up to six $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in a special edition article on Hyperallergic.