December/January 2010

Taking a “happy chic” approach to both design and life.

Jody Clowes critiques Viola Frey's ceramics at the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.

The voices of makers are heard through letters, reports, articles, notes and oral histories.

Arnie Zimmerman invades RISD with with a miniature city.

Guest editor Janet Koplos ponders the passion of the craft community.

Recognizing ten individuals for their contributions to the craft field, the American Craft Council honors its own for leadership, artistry and service.

This California master pares things down to a narrow set of parameters within which he finds extraordinary richness. Maria Porges reflects on how his approach to clay borrows from his parallel enterprise as a musician.

Julian LaVerdiere brings a craft/art background to the seemingly magical realm of production design for films and commercials. Jeremy Lebensohn looks into the process behind the illusion.

In the April 1973 Craft Horizons, Allan Peterson wrote about Albert Paley's outsized jewelry, the focus of his early career. Christine Kaminsky documents the Rochester artist's subsequent achievements in monumental sculptural and architectural metalwork and the recognition it has brought him over more than three decades.