American Craft Magazine

Summer 2022
From the Editor
When putting together this issue on the theme Forge, we knew we had to include blacksmithing and jewelry, stories of artists who have forged new paths, and stories of people with the vision to create change. But this issue holds other surprises. Here you’ll discover a hip hop glass artist, Korean brassware called yugi, a zoologist turned jeweler who sources bones only from a seller with a permit from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, a veteran who transforms military uniforms into paper, a history of the ACC shows, and the story of a ceramic rooster that has become a symbol of resistance for the strong people of Ukraine.
This is an issue about people making their own way, transforming what they think needs to be transformed, and reimagining craft. We hope that it sparks new thinking and fortifies your spirit.

A Cosanti Originals bronze windbell. Photo by Alan Levine, Creative Commons / Flickr.

KAREN OLSON / Editor in Chief
American Craft Council publishes American Craft magazine on a quarterly basis but reserves the right to change the number of issues in an annual term, including discontinuing any format and substituting and/or modifying the manner in which the subscription is distributed.
Featured Articles

Hip Hop Glassmaker

Forging New Paths

Showtime
In This Issue

An Homage to Yugi

The Assembler

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World

Vasylkiv Cockerel

[Visionaries in Craft] 99 Clay Vessels: The Muslim Women Storytelling Project

[Visionaries in Craft] African American Craft Initiative

[Visionaries in Craft] Badass Cross Stitch

[Visionaries in Craft] CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund)

[Visionaries in Craft] Craft Equity

[Visionaries in Craft] Crafting Diversity, Berea College

[Visionaries in Craft] Indigo Arts Alliance

[Visionaries in Craft] Nest

[Visionaries in Craft] The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive

[Visionaries in Craft] The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Crafts

[Visionaries in Craft] The Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths
The Queue: Q&A With People Featured in This Issue

The Queue: Rachel David

The Queue: Drew Cameron

The Queue: Alice Fujii

The Queue: Thomas Little

The Queue: Carin Jones

The Queue: Angel Yoon Kyung Cho
