Plan for Program Closure
March 31, 2022
葡萄牙韩国足球断交沃伦威尔逊学院宣布了关闭批判性工艺研究硕士课程的计划。该项目于2017年启动，旨在为批判性工艺理论和历史的研究生学习提供第一个低居住比例的模式。在宣布关闭学校的计划时，教务长杰伊·罗伯茨表示:“这对我们来说是一个非常艰难的决定。该项目自成立以来一直具有开创性，我们非常幸运地拥有一位在该领域得到国际认可的学者担任Namita Gupta Wiggers的创始主任。Namita，该项目的教员和学生已经并将继续贡献最前沿的奖学金，形成了一个新发展的工艺研究领域。然而，疫情、经济放缓以及研究生市场的变化，使我们越来越难以实现招生目标。虽然我们很遗憾失去了这个创新的研究生课程，Warren Wilson将把我们的工艺和工艺研究的努力重新集中在本科水平，我们仍然很高兴通过艺术系的持续努力，将工艺融入课程的机会。”学院将继续支持所有目前在该项目注册的学生完成学业。
Academic Program
The MA in Critical Craft Studies is a low-residency graduate program in craft history and theory. This full-time, four-semester/ five-residency program is the first of its kind in the US. Students and faculty meet for two weeks of lectures, workshops, seminars, readings, project work, and individual conferences each July and January. The two-year continuous program begins in July; all July residencies are held on the Warren Wilson campus, and January residencies are held in downtown Asheville with classes at The Center for Craft. Students return to campus for a fifth and final residency to present their final projects in a public colloquium, co-organized by Warren Wilson College and The Center for Craft. Students work individually and collaboratively during residencies the following semester terms. Each student spends 20-25 hours per week on readings, writing and research assignments, meetings with mentors in their place of residence or online, online faculty sessions, and group meetings. Coursework builds critical thinking, research methods, and experience with formats ranging from writing and podcasts to exhibitions and curriculum development. Final projects demonstrate applied knowledge in craft histories and theories, and may include: a journal-article length thesis; an exhibition with essays, programs and texts; curricular development with lectures; a scholarly conference with publication; a podcast series; online exhibition or research website; or a collected series of short critical essays.
学院包括来自美国和国外的工艺研究、艺术史、艺术、物质文化、人类学和其他相关学科的主要理论家、历史学家、学者和艺术家;教员在实习期间与学生一起工作，在学期期间在网上与学生一起工作。导师们每学期都会亲自或在线与学生见面，并提供与该领域的额外联系，以及课程和社区之间的联系方式。教员在住院期间在公共项目中展示他们的工作;这些都是免费向公众开放的。
Undergraduates at Warren Wilson College connect with graduate students and faculty through programs and visits to classes, craft history courses, and work through the blacksmithing, fiber, and fine woodworking studios.
The Residency
Residency instruction includes a combination of lectures, discussions, readings, field trips, workshops, hands-on material labs, studio visits, as well as a mixture of individual and group work. Students explore craft histories and theories from around the globe and a range of disciplines through readings and interaction with experts within and outside of craft studies. Coursework, concepts and research methods for each semester are introduced in the residencies and further explored through independent study, project assignments, online group discussions, and monthly meetings with individual mentors.
Research Methods and Materials Labs are designed to engage the Swannanoa/Asheville area as case studies. To complete Labs, students apply methods and approaches learned in their own hometowns. While the program includes a Materials Lab, the emphasis is not on the acquisition and development of skills. Instead, students work on understanding materials and processes to improve their understanding of how things are made, to connect their own making knowledge and experiences with program curriculum, to cultivate direct ways of investigating craft that brings process together with theory, history, and finished work.
All research findings are shared and engaged collectively to expand the field through collective exchange and knowledge building.
