Masters in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina, Student Publication, May 2021

to : Craft, is the publication project of the 2021 graduating class of the Critical Craft Studies MA Program at Warren Wilson College. This project shares select resources, research, and lessons learned during our own course of study, but also includes contributions from the 2022 Cohort and invited faculty. The various postcards feature sensorial relationships with material and making, as well as acknowledge tough questions of systemic social bias by focusing on nondominant voices.

As a form of resistance to academia's prevailing closed power structures, which we are part of, our cohort chose an open-ended format for this publication. Delivering and dispersing our work via postcards aspires to scatter ideas widely: an act of nourishing and seeding the landscape of craft. Postcards exist in a system of gifting, receiving, responding, and re-gifting. They are tactile and social, and communicate ideas horizontally. Their mode is personal and interpersonal. Their circulation is intentional, accreting layers of meaning as they move across time and place.

In Print:
Goodman, Mellanee, Benjamin Lignel, Amy Meissner, Heather K. Powers, and Joni Van Bockel (eds.). to : Craft. Asheville, NC: Warren Wilson College, 2021

Online:
Goodman, Mellanee, Benjamin Lignel, Amy Meissner, Heather K. Powers, and Joni Van Bockel (eds.). to : Craft. Asheville, NC: Warren Wilson College, 2021. Retrieved [enter date] https://www.macraftstudieswwc.com/publication2021.

Role: Editor, curator