February/March 2010

Ron Glowen weighs in on Cappy Thompson’s “dreamscapes” in glass and clay at Traver Gallery Tacoma.

Over a century Greenwich House Pottery grew from a modest program for immigrants into a nationally recognized studio and showcase for contemporary ceramics.

Shannon Sharpe explores this tile maker’s blend of beauty and use.

Leah Ollman critiques Jeff Irwin's animal-inspired ceramics in a San Diego library.

The Douglas Dawson Gallery presents ethnographic art in a contemporary art gallery context and also represents contemporary artists whose work relates.

Sylvie Rosenthal's furniture, a combination of superb woodworking skills and a healthy dose of humor, illustrates her evolution.

Jim Zivic carves sleek sculptural furniture from a mundane substance-coal.

Although I drifted toward architecture for many reasons, one of the defining qualities that attracted me was projective thinking. Architects value the model of a building less for what it is than what it points to - what it projects into the future.

Sabrina Gschwandtner finds a hotbed of new ideas.

In the June/July 1980 American Craft, Jan Janeiro profiled the pioneering weaver and educator Lia Cook. Christine Kaminsky chronicles subsequent developments in Cook's work, her many honors and her current exhibitions.