The Timeline Keeps Growing

We rolled out our first batch of timeline updates this week and also added a search feature to the timeline, so you can find your favorite events more quickly. There's a search box on the timeline home page, and links to the search at the bottom of each timeline. Of course, searching is not without its own troubles. Make sure to report any errors or glitches to timeline@craftcouncil.org. We want to make this timeline the best resource we can.

We've added six entries for September: United States Artists (2005), Studio Art Quilt Associates (1989), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (1999), Museum of Craft and Folk Art (1983), American Raku (1960), and the Folk Art Center (1980).

We also moved the Furniture Society (1996) out of the Wood category and into Cross Craft. As reader Craig Nutt pointed out, the society isn't defined by medium, though many members work in wood. After all, Vivian Beer (June/July 2011), a prominent Furniture Society member, makes metal furniture.

In addition, Madeleine Albright's brooch entry (1998) was updated to include a little bit more about the 1998 exhibition. We also added information on the Museum of Art and Design's 2009 exhibit of 200 pins from Albright's personal collection.

Despite our best efforts and rounds of fact-checking, we also had some factual corrections to make. As Sam Jornlin pointed out, Peter Voulkos wasn't at CCA until 1954, so we moved his entry from 1953.

And we had two image mistakes. The first was pointed out to us by the artist himself, Marvin Lipofsky. In his 1967 entry, we scanned the original slide upside down and the resulting image was flopped. The second image mistake also came from a slide that was mislabeled. The 1972 Woodenworks entry included an image from each of the craftsmen in the show. Unfortunately, the image used for Esherick was actually a Nakashima chair (pointed out in a letter from Mansfield Bascom), so we updated the images on the website. Working with all of these images was definitely a learning experience, and we've refined our fact-checking process to account for the mistakes that can happen in scanning and labeling images – something we do a lot of when we dig into the archives.

Regardless, we're all very excited at the response the timeline has received, and we love hearing from readers with suggestions and questions. Please feel free to drop us a line at timeline@craftcouncil.org. And stay tuned for more updates in the first week of October.