December/January 2011

From a rooftop overlooking the Mississippi, we toasted the beginning of a new era at the American Craft Council.

Dispatches about the craft community at large.

At the Fuller Craft Museum, curator Fo Wilson explores digital technology in contemporary craft.

Sometimes books seem to sing: Everything is exactly right. Jack Lenor Larsen's LongHouse is such a creature.

Jeremy Mayer transforms typewriters into arresting anatomical sculpture.

In World War II internment camps, Japanese-Americans connected with craft as a matter of physical and emotional necessity. Julie K. Hanus interviews Delphine Hirasuna about this little-known body of work.

In her comfortably stylish California home, this Costa Rican transplant creates elegant hybrid vessels, marrying ceramic work with pine needle basketry.

To celebrate the Renwick's 40th anniversary in 2012, we are mounting a major travelling exhibition, Craft Futures: 40 Under 40, which will showcase the work of 40 artists born since 1972.