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Tim Tate and Marc Petrovic agree: Their two recent collaborations, Apothecarium Moderne and Seven Deadly Sins, were better because they made them together. ...
70-Year Craft Timeline
We're celebrating America's handmade history and our own with a timeline of 70 years of craft history.
Great moments in craft: That's what we set out to capture when we decided to mark American Craft's 70th anniversary with a 70-year timeline of making in the United States. But set aside any ideas you might have of a linear chronology with clear-cut categories and tidy edges. What we found, working with 16 contributors and (literally) a library of reference books, is a fascinating tangle of people, institutions, exhibitions, technologies, economic history, and culture - high and low. We tried to capture ...
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Named for the American Craft Council's founder, the Aileen Osborn Webb awards honor those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement, leadership and service in the craft field. ...
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Bravo! A lawyer, two curators and seven artists receive the American Craft Council’s 2009 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards. ...
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The American Craft Council’s 2007 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards, named for the Council’s visionary founder, honor those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in the craft field.
Joining the College of Fellows, which now numbers 247 individuals, are Robert Brady, Marilyn da Silva, Mark Lindquist, William Morris, Richard Notkin, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval and, as Honorary Fellow, Nanette Laitman. ...
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Forty years ago, a rustic Pilchuck workshop fueled a new era of glass experimentation. ...
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As a child, Tanya Aquiñiga straddled the line between Mexico and the United States. Now her exuberant work crosses boundaries between cultures, materials, even genres. ...
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Twenty years after learning the lathe, Joshua Vogel has made woodturning his full-time pursuit, with sleek, sculptural results. ...
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Author Delphine Hirasuna on art and craft in World War II Japanese-American internment camps. ...
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Heath Ceramics, founded in 1944, grew into an unconventional amalgam of craft, design and manufacturing, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated, slighted and generally misunderstood workshops to emerge from California’s studio pottery movement. Here, photographer Laurie Frankel shows us stand-out work from the past half-century while in print Mija Riedel looks at what makes the company tick. ...
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“Making utilitarian objects appeals to my practical side, yet the romance of being
a potter seduces my dreamier side. ” ...
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From the Roycrofters to today’s online DIY makers, craft has always gone hand in hand (to use a wonderfully appropriate phrase) with community. It follows, then, that craft has a unique power to build and strengthen communities that are weak or broken. Artists imagine and create beauty in unexpected, even hopelessly blighted places. In American cities, their vision has revived whole neighborhoods. And in underdeveloped countries, the economic and humanitarian benefits of handcraft can be all the more dramatic.
Artecnica and Denyse Schmidt Quilts are two arts businesses that are helping to build community, directly and indirectly, through craft. ...
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Craft in the context of American history at one venue while craft meets the computer at the other. ...
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In October, three homeless women in their 20s gathered in a common room at a YWCA in Portland, Oregon, for what Aurelie Tu, founder of CraftedSystems, calls a "weave." Over a few hours, the women learned a craft, connected with each other, worked with their hands, and earned a little money - all while helping designer Tu create lampshades, rugs, vessels, and more.
Tu's business model is perhaps as inventive as her craft. For two or three consecutive days every couple of months, she conducts a weave, and women from the Y's shelter are paid by the piece to construct the ...
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In the late winter of 2007, a remarkable rescue occurred in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After nearly three years of existing on the precipice of demolition, Crow House, the hand-built home and studio of the once-renowned painter and potter Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) ultimately was saved by Christopher St. Lawrence, Town Supervisor of Ramapo, New York. And though St. Lawrence quietly acknowledges his role in this feat, he might also be tempted to tell you his mother made him do it. After all, it was his 88-year-old mother, Marguerite, who first read of the historic home’s plight in the ...
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