Namita Gupta Wiggers

Weekly list of interesting bits Friday March 6, 2026

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

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.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

We’re in the upside down www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

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.

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.

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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

10/10. No notes.

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.

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.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

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.

When "hit me, I need the insurance money" becomes "hit me, I need the pretext to kill you."

Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova Those in Europe, claiming about “imaginary Russian and Chinese threats” in the Arctic, either have not been paying attention to what was happening in the Arctic in the last ten years, are not able to connect the dots between the Western Hemisphere & Indo-Pacific region, or both. 4:17 AM · Jan 11, 2026 · 51.2K Views Rebecca Solnit Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova · 9h Link to read https://open.substack.com/pub/velinatchakarova/p/cold-war-20-is-inevitable?r=rd5fm&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov · 6h 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. You are the threat. Not them.

Ted Lieu @tedlieu Dear @usairforce , @USNavy , @USArmy @USMC : Greenland is part of Denmark, a NATO ally. If Trump orders the military to attack Greenland without congressional approval, that would be an illegal order. You will disobey the illegal order. Your oath is to the Constitution, not Trump. Quote Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024 · 19h Daily Mail: President Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland but is being resisted by senior military figures https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15452323/amp/Donald-Trump-orders-army-chiefs-plan-invade-Greenland-President.html 7:24 PM · Jan 10, 2026 · 834.8K Views Rebecca Solnit Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics · 15h Trump is the head of the military. You are calling for insurrection and you should be charged with treason. Ted Lieu @tedlieu · 15h Only Congress can declare war.

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.

Hoping you get answers and Harvey gets relief!!!

Thanks for reposting!

Mapping Craft: This is How We Meet, publication of the MA in Critical Craft Studies, Class of 2020.
75 Gifts for 75 Years
Unpacking the Collection: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
Generations: Betty Feves
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn
Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective

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
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AJ+ on Instagram: "This is how a group of Indigenous artists staged an unsanctioned exhibit in one of the most famous U.S. museums – and no one can shut it down. The show, called “ENCODED,” uses augm... 24K likes, 331 comments - ajplus on November 26, 2025: "This is how a group of Indigenous artists staged an unsanctioned exhibit in one of the most famous U.S. museums – and no one can shut it down. ...

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Brilliant project. Take the time to go through the full post and see the projects.

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

namitapdx on Instagram: "#Repost @crafthouston with @use.repost・・・“How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston…" #Repost @crafthouston with @use.repost・・・“How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents a lecture by eminent craft scholar Namita Gupta Wiggers (@namitapdx), offering insights from her forthcoming book, “Which Craft? How Craft Exhibitions Make History.” Drawing on her years as Director and Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon and research conducted as a Smithsonian American Art Museum Institution Senior Fellow, Wiggers examines two decades of curatorial practice, institutional shifts, and the exhibitions that have shaped the field of contemporary craft in the United States.To learn more, visit our website or check out the link in our bio @crafthouston #craftscape #whichcraft #thisiscraft #criticalcraftforum

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Noticed that fax didn’t come up. At least you got a break there

crafthouston on Instagram: "“How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents a…" “How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents a lecture by eminent craft scholar Namita Gupta Wiggers (@namitapdx), offering insights from her forthcoming book, “Which Craft? How Craft Exhibitions Make History.” Drawing on her years as Director and Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon and research conducted as a Smithsonian American Art Museum Institution Senior Fellow, Wiggers examines two decades of curatorial practice, institutional shifts, and the exhibitions that have shaped the field of contemporary craft in the United States.To learn more, visit our website or check out the link in our bio!📸Image credit: Namita Gupta Wiggers, 2023. Via NamitaWiggers.com.

Come by if you are in Houston!

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All the paintings of cows on view from the Frye family collection at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Heat Wave | Eric Klinenberg What Chicago needed was a social autopsy, a study of the institutions and relationships that permitted this catastrophe.

Thirty years ago this month, a deadly heat wave hit Chicago. It killed over seven hundred people, most of the victims were elderly and poor. But as Eric Klinenberg wrote in issue no. 15, it was more than just the heat that did them in.

Gorgeous day for writing in the Portland Japanese Garden today

Pittsburgh moments. Gifted a copy of Joyce J. Scott’s Stop Asking. We Exist from former director of Contemporary Craft. Cemetery. Former site of billboard - There are Black People in the Future - by Alisha B. Wormsley. Great catch-up with Miriam Devlin.