CRAFT SCHOOLS

CRAFT SCHOOLS: HOW CRAFT EDUCATION SHAPED CURATING, COLLECTING, AND MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
4 WEEK ONLINE ZOOM CLASS 
JULY 2 - JULY 23
TUESDAYS, 1pm - 2pm ET
$95 JRACRAFT MEMBERS | $135 NON-MEMBERS

​Craft Schools is a project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that traces contemporary craft in the United States today. It springs from an epic three-year Amtrak journey across all 48 contiguous United States to visit places of contemporary craft teaching and learning. This class invites participants to come along on this journey to discover new places, people, and ways of making and knowing the world around us.

​In addition to four live Zoom classes, you will receive extensive resources for further readings and watching. Can’t make a class? No worries, classes will be recorded and made available for all class registrants.
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TOPICS INCLUDE

• The importance of people and place in the study of craft education
  
• Teaching and learning experiences of contemporary Native American craft artists and makers
• How marginalized communities have formed their own spaces for knowledge transmission
• The importance of craft education to the formation of the studio craft movement from 1945 onwards
• The connections between the formation of craft schools and markets and museum collecting of contemporary craft
  
  

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR: MICHELlE MILLAR FISHER

Michelle Millar Fisher is the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously, she worked at MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. At the MFA, she is working on Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit which took her on a train journey across all 48 contiguous US states. She leads an independent team on a book, touring exhibition, and program series called Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births. She holds an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and received an M.Phil from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY) where she is completing her PhD. She publishes widely on art, design, and architecture. 

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