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Have you ever wondered where to find the recipe for baker's clay, what a fire proximity coverall looks like, or what is performance sculpture?
Whether you have asked yourself these questions or not, I can't resist telling you about the first phase of the American Craft Council Library's digital projects: making our Council newsletter collection accessible online. Detailing craft history in America from 1957-1986, these newsletters account for major events, important individuals' involvement, as well as movements and trends in modern American craft.
Currently I am in the throes of the digitization process, happily lost among the stacks of archival boxes. ...
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Being able to see some of the most innovative craft exhibitions of the 20th century is by far the best part about scanning materials from the Your Portable Museum collection for our new digital image database. The main curator of the Museum of Contemporary Craft's exhibitions was Paul J. Smith, who explained in a recent interview for American Craft magazine that he often took risks by building shows based on the nonconformist culture of the time. One of the 1965-66 exhibitions he uses as an example, which also happens to be a favorite around the ACC library, ...
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While working on the digitization project for the American Craft Council's library, I've navigated through the organization's ephemera from exhibitions past that make up the archives. It has been a blur at times. I've uncovered countless files of formal and staged photographs. So when I stumbled upon a series of fun-loving (to the point of mischievous) images from the exhibition Made With Paper I was stopped in my archiving tracks.
Made With Paper was on view at the American Craft Council's Museum of Contemporary Craft in November 1967. For some exhibitions, the MCC found ways to engage with the community outside ...
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It's not often I find an exhibition catalog filled with as many striking images of the artists as of the artists' works. Actually, I don't believe I have ever come across a catalog quite like the one for Woven Forms. The imaginative layout consists only of centerfolds. Yes, I said centerfolds, but don't worry: It's not what you may think. When unfolded, the pages reveal exquisite black and white images of long, woven sculptures. Folded, these pages present detailed profiles of each artist featured in the exhibition, reminding us not to forget the maker behind what's made. By placing the ...
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Earlier this year, librarian Jessica Shaykett introduced our plan to grow the library's online collection by digitizing the Your Portable Museum Archive. The digitization process is now well under way. Here's a little more background information about the project.
What it was then...
As an audio-visual service of the American Craft Council, Your Portable Museum brought exhibitions and workshops as close to real life as one could get in the 60s, 70s, and 80s without actually having to be there. The 35mm color slide kits, 16mm filmstrips, 35mm motion films, and accompanying literature were available for rent or purchase by ...
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