Geraldine Craig is an artist and writer whose research focuses on the intersections and relationships between textile history, theory/criticism, curatorial work and studio practice. Her writing is formed by modes of knowing as a maker, with primary research interests contemporary art/craft and Hmong textiles, generating knowledge of craft practices marginalized in Western art history canons. As Assistant Director for Academic Programs, Cranbrook Academy of Art (2001 – 2007), she developed the annual Critical Studies/Humanities program in response to these kinds of broad intersections/ relationships seen in the MFA students’ studio production each year. Craig was the 2012-2013 Dorothy Liesky Wampler Eminent Professor, James Madison University, and in 2010 was elected an Associate Fellow at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE. She was also awarded the 1994-95 James Renwick Senior Fellow in American Craft, Smithsonian Institution, and has presented at conferences throughout the United States, Brazil and Denmark. Craig has written a monograph on sculptor Joan Livingstone (Telos: London), and published over ninety book chapters, catalog essays, articles and reviews (Art in America, Hmong Studies Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, Surface Design Journal, Sculpture, among others). Her studio work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Mexico, and she has received numerous grants to support her research and creative practice, including the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs individual Creative Artist Grant. She has taught at Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada; College for Creative Studies, Detroit; the low-residency MFA, Vermont College. She was Department Head of Art at Kansas State University, July 2007 - October 2014, until she began as Associate Dean in the KSU Graduate School.