Namita Gupta Wiggers
@namitawiggers.bsky.social
work to build a craftscape. Recovering academic, curator, arts admin. Working on project on craft museums, fiction, art, making a writing life. https://substack.com/@craftscape www.namitawiggers.com
Interested in a three session course this summer (July) focused on close readings of essays from craft museum publications between 2000-2020? Interested? Add a heart or like here. Watch Critical Craft Forum or follow me at craftscape.substack.com for more details coming by May 1.
I wish I was in NJ for this
Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn May 2nd, I'm hosting a one-day writing conference for memoirists at Rutgers! Our keynote speaker is Kimberlé Crenshaw and other guests include Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, Lauren Hough, Kelly Sundberg, Savala Nolan and Mary HK Choi. I hope you can make it! ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...
This May, San Francisco will open a new permanent exhibition space dedicated to Ruth Asawa. The late modernist sculptor was known for her artwork, public activation, and education advocacy within the city. hyperallergic.com/a-dedicated-...
A Dedicated Ruth Asawa Space Is Coming to San Francisco
Complementing the artist’s various public works throughout the city, her family-run estate's forthcoming gallery comes on the centenary of the artist's birth year.
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Talking about making history, studying craft, projects at Wayne State this Tu evening at 6-730 pm. If you are Detroit, come by!
Weekly notes up. Resources, things to read, to watch, what caught my attention this week…
Weekly notes Friday March 27, 2026
Things to read, to watch, resources and more
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New post on craftscape: How do contexts—spatial arrangements to be precise—reveal meanings we attach to objects?What happens to an object that moves through a range of spaces?How do you take institutional parameters - in this case an assignment - and reframe the problem? substack.com/@craftscape/...
3.20.2026. Cherry blossoms in Salem OR. Everything feels so shitty right now. And then there was this.
It was a juicy week for things to read, to listen to, resources and more. Love to hear what connects with you
Weekly Notes March 22, 2026
Weekly Notes Week of March 15 – 21, 2026
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Used to share a weekly list of resources - books, articles, opportunities etc in the MA in Critical Craft Studies program. Revived after multiple requests via craftscape on substack
Weekly list of interesting bits
Friday March 6, 2026
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BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
I am really honored at being named to the American Craft Council’s College of Fellows. Amazing company to be in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... Announcement here: craftcouncil.org/awards/colle... I don’t necessarily fit the mold, and am feeling seen in the best possible way right now.
Category:Fellows of the American Craft Council - Wikipedia
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 8mo agoHave a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
The Legacy Museum, which is “perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum,” is free from government control and displays the “history that the Trump administration aims to de-emphasize—if not outright erase,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social argues.
The Power of Private Museums
The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.
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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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When "hit me, I need the insurance money" becomes "hit me, I need the pretext to kill you."
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt appears that DHS agents have strategically been stepping in front of vehicles to ‘justify’ shooting since at least 2014. This seems to be the training. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov "I am head of the defence committee in Denmark It is my job to be on top of security in Greenland and I get all relevant information about it. I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional."
This has been a rough year. Mapped it as a wood snake to shed it. Visually tracks multiple aspects of the year: time, place, connections, events.
12.12.2025 Donating books to my public library today.We’ve lost many arts organizations in PDX, access to knowledge is at risk and our libraries are more important than ever.These books will be in a library with one of the highest circulations in the US List in comments
