The first issue of 2012 considers the way in which craft is represented on the public stage.
Articles
Ann-Sophie Lehmann Showing Making: On Visual Documentation and Creative Practice (free download)
Victoria Cain The Craftsmanship Aesthetic: Showing Making at the American Museum of Natural History, 1910-45
Irene Stengs Sacred Singularities: Crafting Royal Images in Present-day Thailand
Henritta Lidchi Material Destinies: Jewelry, Authenticity, and Craft in the American Southwest
Primary text
Gail McGarva Daughterboats
Statement of practice
Margaret Merwin Patch The Craftsman
Glenn Adamson Commentary
Book reviews
Adrienne Childs Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists
Exhibition reviews
Dave Beech Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture by Gregory Sholette
Eileen Boris The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker
Meredith Goldsmith Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art by Maria Elena Buszek (ed.)