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Jennifer Way, Professor of Art History
Department of Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, TX, 76203-5017
Jennifer Way, Professor of Art History
Department of Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, TX, 76203-5017
2025 Racial Ambivalence: Photographic messages about American Red Cross Craft Therapy, 1920, for session, The Material Culture of Modern Bodily Regimes: Institutional Engagements with Health and Healing in the United States, annual Health and the Health Humanities Consortium, Philadelphia
2025 Caring with or for? Reappraising the dynamics of care shaping Liza Lou’s craft-centered communities, for session, Process-Generated Networks: Craft and Sociality in Feminist Art, College Art Association
2024 Weaving to heal: questions of masculinity and craft therapy for US WW1 troops and veterans, Textiles and Masculinities, A Design History Society online symposium from Glasgow, Scotland
2024 Extractive craft in America's ecology of the Free World, ca 1960, for session, U.S. Imperialism, Extraction, and Ecocritical Art Histories, annual conference, College Art Association
2022 keynote lecture, Questions of interraciality in Lewis Wickes Hine’s photograph of WW1 craft therapy, Crafting Identities. Handicraft Programmes in Times of War, Genocide and their Aftermaths, c. 1890-1950, University of Huddersfield, UK
2022 Rehabilitating veterans at MoMA, 1944-1948: craft fabrication and normative masculine ableism, March 1, 2022. Session: Therapeutic Aesthetics. Seminar series:“New new approaches to Medical Care, Humanitarianism and Violence during the ‘long’ Second World War, 1931-1953.” As part of the AHRC-funded project, Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance (AH/T006382/1).
2021 Gendered and gendering frameworks of the American-led Free World: diplomacy, art school, and representations of Vietnamese women art students in a USIA film, ca 1957. Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, DC
2021 The Industry of Occupational Subjects: Craft as a Therapeutic Modality, Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history, Symposium, Suffolk University, Boston
2021 Craft and War. Chair of session, Association of Art Historians, Newcastle, UK. This session investigates relationships of craft and war and considers how they compel a reappraisal of central themes in craft history.
2021 From objects to subjects in process: recovering the work of craft caregivers, College Art Association, annual conference, online
2020 Craft Kits and Art Kits as Therapeutic Modalities, College Art Association, Chicago
Jennifer Way, PhD