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Letters
We want to know what you’re thinking, so drop us a line
and tell us what’s on your mind.
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Editor’s Letter
When it came time to relaunch American Craft, Andrew Wagner had some tough questions to ask himself. Thankfully, after many fitful nights, he was able to answer them.
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Zoom
An information-packed guide to museum and gallery exhibits, events, books, innovative products and emerging artists. In this issue: Matt Eskuche, Santa Fe clay, Amaridian Gallery, Artecnica and much more.
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Material Culture
Laurie Manfra looks long and hard at the hand-molded furniture of
Maarten Baas and finds that the industrial clay he uses lends itself quite
nicely to tactile, playful and often wooze-inducing forms.
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Outskirts
Lily Kane observes furniture maker/designer David Trubridge’s
crossover from craft into industrial design and finds herself wondering,
Can’t we all just get along?
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Reviewed
Christine Temin tackles the “Pulp Function” exhibit at the
Fuller, Jody Clowes takes on “Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds”
at Kohler and Natalie Haddad explores “Hot House” at Cranbrook.
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Critic’s Corner
Paul Greenhalgh argues that for craft to take its rightful place
in the project of modernity, we must first change the way its history
is presented.
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From the Stacks
In April
of 1953, fiber artist Mariska Karasz delved deeply into filamental forms,
reporting on her embroideries in “Abstract Stitches” for Craft
Horizons.
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Hunting and Gathering
In the Arizona desert home of Stéphane Janssen, Andrew Wagner finds an oasis filled with amazing, eclectic objects reflecting a lifetime of passionate collecting.
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The Wide World of Craft
Shannon Sharpe escapes the doldrums of New York City for Down Under and discovers that Australia’s craft scene is alive and doing oh so well.
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Little But Loud
Robert Sullivan spends the day with artist and woodworker Richard Humann. Their wide-ranging conversation touches on beer, baseball, biennales and the obsessive nature of Humann’s meticulously rendered, often macabre endeavors.
Photography by Chris Mottalini
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House of the Handmade
Photographer Peter Strube goes for a walk on the wild side through artist Nathalie Lété’s Paris home and workshop and enters an enchanting profusion of mediums and color in which more is definitely more.
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The Phoenix Concept
Karrie Jacobs heads to Biloxi, Mississippi, to talk to, among
others, civic leader Jeremiah O’Keefe, who believes that George
E. Ohr, the town’s famous Mad Potter, still matters and that Los
Angeles architect Frank Gehry, is the man to make the world stand up and
take notice.