Summer Lecture Series: Jenni Sorkin, Ph.D.: Craft-Like: The Illusion of Authenticity

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Craft-like: The Illusion of Authenticity charts the appropriation of craft into spheres that are not craft, but rather, "craft-like," a strain of contemporary art practice that incorporates a range of extractive, borrowed, or copied techniques, materials, and ideas.

Jenni Sorkin is Professor of History of Art & Architecture at University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art, working primarily on women artists and underrepresented media. Her books include: Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago, 2016), Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women Artists, 1947-2016 (Skira, 2016) and Art in California (Thames & Hudson, 2021), as well as numerous essays in journals and exhibition catalogs. She received her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Craft. From 2021-22, she was Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. She also serves as the Co-Executive Editor of Panorama: the Association of Historians of American Art.