This open online seminar will investigate these pertinent topics with speakers worldwide and across the widest range of disciplines and career stages who are thinking critically about intersections between craft and representation.
20 January - Crafting Labour:
'Rethinking representations of industrial craft: Beyond the nostalgic “lost craftsman”' by Jesse Adams Stein. 'Inherited stitches. Journal of an anonymous seamstress' by Anita Puig. 'A Trading Space: Realist Images of the Worker in Carved Timber Reliefs at Copenhagen’s Workers’ Assembly Hall, 1934-35' by Courtney Schum.
3 February - Digital Agency:
'Visualizing change: online representation and resistance in the Canada-US hand knitting industry' by Shannon Black. 'Crafting The Internal ‘Other’?' by Laya Chirravuru. 'Critical Ethics for Communicating Indigenous Craft Practices' by Teal Triggs, Celia Matsunaga and Matt Lewis.
17 February - Disarming Craft:
'Weapons of Honour: Colonial Disarming Laws, Kodava Modernity and the Restructuring of Artisan Economy in Kodagu' by Chinnappa BG. 'Representing Enslaved Labour in the American Index of Design' by Hampton Smith. 'Cema-Chile’s Political Imaginaries in Artesanías' by Daniela Salgado Cofré.
3 March - Craft Institutions:
'Institutionalizing National Heritage: Exhibition of Indian handicrafts in America' by Erika Mouton. 'Putting the Art into Craft: The Craftsman’s Art exhibition, 1973' by Andrea Peach. 'Material mastery of the Far North: re-imag(in)ing Norwegian carpentry and the multiform histories of crafting Flydalsjuvet' by Erika Mouton. '373 - Bagabos Women in the Philippine Village' by Anna Helgeson.
17 March - Craft Communities:
‘A million pounds of memories:’ the material culture of Lemington Glass' by Jenna Allsopp. 'Al-Nazla Village: Re-presenting clay pot as a building material' by Mohamed Fareed. 'Representations of Indian handloom weaving and their impact on weavers’ job roles and relationship with their market' by Ruth Clifford.
31 March - Craft Typologies:
'The Life and Love of a Harris Tweed Worker: the Face Behind your Fabric' by Beth Wilson. 'Le Klint pleated lamp shades' by Eva Storgaard. 'Decolonizing Taiwan through Craft: Yan Shuilong and the Taiwanese Folkcraft Movement' by Lingjia Xu. 'Representing or mediating regional crafts?' by Elise Kleitz.