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Critical Craft Forum
- Group wall post by Garth Clark
- Link: Museum of Fine Arts Houston
- Group wall post by Garth Clark
- Link: MFAH | Shartle Symposium “Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics” - Saturday, March 3, 2012 @.
- Link: MFAH | Exhibitions | Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecch
- Group wall post by Janet Koplos-Art
- Group wall post by Suzanne Isken
- Wall Flux demonstration - live
- Group wall post by Holly Hanessian
- Link: Peering into 'Clay's Tectonic Shift'
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Recent craft books
- Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the OttomansThe manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry - including metalworkers, ceramicists, silk weavers, fez-makers, blacksmiths and even barbers - lay at the social as well as the economic heart of the Ottoman empire. This comprehensive history by leading Ottoman historian Suraiya Faroqhi presents the definiti […]
- Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave, Wilson, MolinskiAnne Wilson: Wind/Rewind Weave documents an exhibition of the same title organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art and visual artist Anne Wilson to investigate the global crisis of production and skill-based textile labor. This volume includes evocative images of Wilson’s pieces on display, as well as beautiful, full-color illustrations of the textiles that p […]
- The Sympathy of Things by Lars SpuybroekThe old romantic notion of sympathy, a core concept in Ruskin’s aesthetics, is re-evaluated as the driving force of the aesthetic experience. […]
- Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art by Maria Elena BuszekReflecting on what craft has come to mean in recent decades, artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine-art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting, or craftivism. […]
- The Art of Not MakingCan an artist claim that an object is their own work if it has been made by someone else? […]
- Art and Sustainability, Sacha KaganWhat is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world […]
- David Gauntlett: Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0, book published by Polity, 2011[…]
- Recycling Indian Clothing / Indiana University Press[…]
- Lines that connect: Rethinking pattern and mind in the PacificLines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. […]
- Making FuturesThe papers in this volume represent the results of the first Making Futures international research conference held in September 2009 at Mount Edgcumbe House, in the Mount Edgcumbe country estate that lies across the River Tamar opposite the City of Plymouth, UK. […]