Summer Craft History Courses Jame Renwick Alliance
After overwhelming success with our first course offerings in 2023 and 2024, JRACraft continues our online class history courses with four new courses for summer 2025!Each course includes four to six weekly live Zoom classes and extensive resources for further readings and watching. Classes will be recorded and made available for all class registrants. JRACraft members and members of partner organizations receive a discount on all classes.
Courses available:
HISTORY OF CRAFT IN THE U.S.
6 WEEK ONLINE ZOOM COURSE
Explore the rich, multifaceted history of craft in the United States. Trace themes such as Craft and Tradition, Craft and Activism, Craft in Contemporary Art, and Craft and the Market, following their threads from the past to the present. Instructed by Jennifer Scanlan
APPALACHIAN CRAFT: THEN AND NOW
6 WEEK ONLINE ZOOM COURSE
JUNE 3 — JULY 8
Appalachian Craft: Then & Now will travel through time back and forth between the past, the present, and the future through photographs, oral histories, images, and stories.
CRAFT IN THE MUSEUM
4 WEEK ONLINE ZOOM COURSE
JUNE 4 — JUNE 25
Explore the dynamic interplay between artists, institutions, and curators in shaping the craft field over the last 25 years in this engaging four-week seminar led by Namita Wiggers.
FUNK ART: COUNTERCULTURE IN CERAMICS
4 WEEK ONLINE ZOOM COURSE
JULY 3 — JULY 28
Funk Art emerged from California’s Bay Area and was introduced to the rest of the world by curator Peter Selz via the 1967 exhibition Funk at the Berkeley Art Museum.