This course explores how the current ideas of craft have emerged and changed from 1850 to the present. Students critically engage with comparative histories of craft across time and space & the importance of global perspectives is examined through scholarship well beyond such contexts as the studio craft or the Arts and Crafts movements. Seminar participants analyze the social, political, and environmental discourses of craft as they intersect with the cultures of skill, labor, and materials & consider; how we "read" and interpret objects of material culture, & what these objects tell us about the values of a society. GE: Oral and Written Communication
- Teacher: Matthew Haugh