Crit Groups

Diane C. Wright joined the Toledo Museum of Art in 2017 and currently serves as the senior curator of glass and contemporary craft.  Previously, she was the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Wright has taught extensively on the history of glass and is a recognized scholar of the windows and mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his Studio. Her current research focuses on making connections between historic objects and contemporary makers working in craft-based mediums.  She has held positions at The Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, and Yale University Art Gallery and received her MA in the History of Decorative Arts from Parsons the New School for Design. She is originally from Los Angeles.

Namita Gupta Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. She is the founding director of the MA in Critical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College. Wiggers maintains that understanding context and the specificity of place impacts craft practice, research, teaching, and learning. She co-founded and has led Critical Craft Forum, an online platform for dialogue and exchange, podcast, and a decade of annual sessions at College Art Association from 2008-2018. From 2004–2012, Wiggers served as the curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, in partnership with PNCA, Portland, Oregon, and from 2012–2014 she was its chief curator and director. Additional projects include: a craft anthology, Creative Time Think Tank, Board of Trustees of Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and serving as an editor-at-large for Crafts (UK).