Earlier this fall, Ms. Fisher embarked upon her first train journey in support of her department's current research project into craft today, Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit. Click here to read her report from that trip.
This project stems from a desire to welcome living craft artists and makers into the museum collection and galleries through meeting them where they are in their studios, schools, and homes. It’s difficult to truly take the pulse of contemporary craft by staying at one's desk doing online research or sticking to one's immediate locale. Trust between artists and institutions is built by visiting artists, bringing a small gift, and sitting and listening to their stories about their work.
The project will ultimately manifest as a book and a series of contemporary craft acquisitions that will add new perspectives and stories to the MFA's galleries and holdings. Before that, however, it will also be a series of public programs to share the research-in-progress and these will happen in 2022. We'll send you the details in the New Year.
