October 30, 2020
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm
Each year, CraftNOW hosts a symposium to provide a platform for critical discourse in contemporary craft. This year’s program includes Vessel and Vehicle, a conversation between FWM Curator Karen Patterson and upcoming FWM Artist-in-Residence Rose B. Simpson.
October 30, 2020
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm
Virtual event to be hosted on Zoom
Details to be shared after registration
Free program courtesy of CraftNOW
CraftNOW’s 2020 symposium Cultures of Making will examine the many ways community, activism, research, and connection develop out of collaborative craft practices in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia to the Santa Clara Pueblo and beyond. Keynote speakers Vashti DuBois, Executive Director of The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, and Hinda Mandell, editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats, will be central to each day’s conversation as we talk and think about the role of craft as a tool for provocation and exchange, especially in this heightened time of social unrest.
The symposium, scheduled for Friday, October 30 and Friday, November 6, 2020, will be inspired by the recent publications Craft Capital: Philadelphia’s Cultures of Making edited by Glenn Adamson and Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats edited by Hinda Mandell.
Friday, October 30, 2020
2:00 Opening Remarks with Elisabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Leila Cartier, CraftNOW Philadelphia
2:15 Vessel and Vehicle: FWM Curator Karen Patterson in conversation with upcoming Artist-in-Residence Rose B Simpson
2:45 Crafting Dissent: Keynote Speaker Hinda Mandell
3:10 Crafting Dissent Panel Discussion with Diane Ivey, Claudia Carpenter, Karen Hampton, Betsy Hawley, Yu Ra Kim, Felicity Lufkin, Tal Fitzpatrick, and Sara Trail
4:10 Question and Answer Session
4:30 Closing Remarks
Friday, November 6, 2020
2:00 Opening Remarks with Elisabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Leila Cartier, CraftNOW Philadelphia
2:10 Crafting Public Ritual: Keynote by Vashti DuBois of The Colored Girls Museum
2:55 Exploration, Experimentation, Collaboration: 25 Years of the Windgate International Residency Program with The Center for Art in Wood’s Artistic Director Navva Milliken
3:45 On Patriotism and Oikophobia: John Preus with Christine Pfister of Pentimenti Gallery
4:15 Question and Answer Session
4:30 Closing Remarks
The CraftNOW Cultures of Making Symposium is being organized in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Techné, the museum’s affinity group exploring and celebrating international craft.
