American Craft Week Event: "Regarding the History of Objects" lecture

October 13, 4 PM at the Haywood Community College Auditorium "Regarding the History of Objects" lecture by Anna Fariello, Director of the Craft Rival Project at Western Carolina University. Haywood's Professional Crafts Program in partnership with Handmade in America and the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is pleased to sponsor a special lecture as part of American Craft Week in Western North Carolina.

Fariello will speak on the collective identity of craft.  The talk, derived from "Objects and Meaning," a book Fariello co-edited and to which she contributed two chapters, will address how academic disciplines and cultural institutions have assigned meaning to expressive objects over time. Fariello argues that it is not effective to examine craft using the language and system of evaluation for art history and that craft must have its own discipline-specific vocabulary. "I used to think that it was possible to carry on deeper conversations about craft using the formalized language shared by art history, aesthetics and criticism," Fariello said. "I no longer believe this. The very term 'fine art' negates the egalitarian values of craft and its influence upon the visual arts."

The event is free and open to the public.