Spring 2022
Spring 2022
Fashion
![cover of american craft magazine featuring a model wearing a pink silk headscarf and an orange blue black and white patchwork robe](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_two_three_large/public/2022-02/Cover_SP22_Final_Screen%20Resolution.jpg?itok=Y0WSN0uW)
From the Editor
When planning this issue, we knew we had to include Fabiola Jean-Louis’ dresses, which she sculpts from paper and ornaments with images from the impacts of the transatlantic slave trade—images that can be quite difficult to look at. We also hoped you’d be as delighted as we are by the work of artists combining craft and fashion, including the stunning clothing born from a collaboration between the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and designer Greg Lauren; the way Shae Bishop stitches ceramic tiles into unique menswear pieces; and how Nicole McLaughlin creates fantastical garments and accessories from objects that would otherwise go to the trash.
In these pages you’ll also find stories of how artists shape materials into meaning, including an in-depth profile of Sonya Clark and how she brings together the work of many to create visionary artworks.
I’ve been reminded by this work and these stories to again slow down to appreciate what human hands are capable of—and what it feels like to wear clothing designed with care for others and the future of the planet in mind. I hope you find inspiration here too.
![textile artist blurred in motion as they work at a loom. A finished beige piece hangs on the wall behind them](https://craftcouncil-images.imgix.net/website/issues/2022/02-spring/R3.jpg?auto=compress&cs=srgb)
Rhiannon Griego of Santa Fe at the loom. Learn more about her and other textile artists and lothing designers in "Cloth Encounters." Photo courtesy of Rhiannon Griego.
Our thanks to Roseanne G. Pereira, who helped conceptualize this issue and made many great contributions to American Craft while she worked with us.
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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.
Feature Articles
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From Discarded To Maximized
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The Fashion Factor
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The Object in Its Place: As Designed by Ted Cohen
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