Sara Clugage
sara at dilettantearmy dot com
Ongoing Projects
Editor-in-Chief, Dilettante Army
Core Faculty, Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College
Organizer, Art+Feminism
Assistant Director of Communications, Textile Society of America
Trustee, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Selected Writing & Videos
New Recipes: Cooking, Craft, and Performance, Haystack 2021 Monograph (print publication and videos), July 2022
“Against Craftivism,” online lecture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, July 2021
Dessert Democracy, commissioned video work, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2020
Radical Hospitality Trivia, Instagram stories trivia game, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2020
“The Tent-Dweller: Markers of Migration in Art,” The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global; Proceedings of the Textile Society of America 16th Biennial Symposium (Founding Presidents Award nominee), 2018
“Nick Cave: Until,” The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2017
“Fueling the Fires of Craft and Creativity,” Surface Design Journal, Fall 2016
“Piece of Me: Worship, Raveling, and Britney Spears,” Pelican Bomb, July 2015
“Reaching Behind the Glass,” Surface Design Journal, Fall 2014
“Inspired Design—Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2009
Selected Teaching and Fellowships
Rochester Institute of Technology glass program, Visiting Artist, November 2021
Wikimedia NYC, Craft+Wikipedia roundtable series, September 2021
Maryland Institute College of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture, September 2021
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Visiting Artist, August 2021
Warren Wilson college, mentor for the MA in Critical Craft Studies, 2020
Warren Wilson College, workshop faculty for the MA in Critical Craft Studies, 2019 & 2020
Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Craft as Contemporary Art Residency, November-December 2019
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Art Schools Collaborative, October 2019
Virginia Commonwealth University, Visiting Artist in Craft/Material Studies, September 2019
American Folk Art Museum, Folk + Feminism Book Club, September 17, 2018
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Summer Conference presenter, July 2018
College Art Association and Craft and Folk Art Museum, CARPA panel, February 2018
California State University Los Angeles, guest lecture, February 19, 2018
Morbid Anatomy Museum, “Dilettantes: A Somewhat Professional History,” October 28, 2015
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MA in Visual and Critical Studies 2011
California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA in Textiles 2005
University of California at Santa Cruz, BA in Philosophy 2001
Exhibitions & Projects
August 2020-January 2021—John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan WI
Sprechgesang Institute—Courses
July 2019—Block Gallery, Bronx Museum of Art
Gilded Age New York: A Wealth Inequality Dinner
January 2019—Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn
Sprechgesang Institute—Asterisms
June 2018—Hercules Art Studio Program, New York
Sprechgesang Institute—Extended Techniques
March 2018—Target Margin Theater, Brooklyn
November 2017—Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn
February 2017—Thank You for Coming, Los Angeles
August 2016—Pelican Bomb Gallery X, New Orleans
January-June 2016—Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR
October 2013—Shangri-La, Joshua Tree