Summer 2022
Summer 2022
Forge
![cover of the summer 2022 issue of american craft magazine](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_two_three_large/public/2022-05/Cover_SP22_Final_Screen%20Resolution.jpeg?itok=86wv3X6L)
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.
![hand-poured bronze bell](https://craftcouncil-images.imgix.net/website/issues/2022/03-summer/Paolo+Soleri+bell_2.jpg?fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.6&ar=1:1&auto=compress&cs=srgb)
A Cosanti Originals bronze windbell. Photo by Alan Levine, Creative Commons / Flickr.
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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
More from This Issue
![bronze korean yugi bowl filled with rice and vegetables and garnished with a flower](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-05/HERO_NOTDAM-IM-%2810%29.jpg?itok=lHqkw6mJ)
An Homage to Yugi
![black metal ring with word lazulite and dark blue minerals](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-06/HERO_Specimen-Ring---Lazulite---5_2.jpg?itok=LM6xKz6l)
The Assembler
![oval ring made from bronze with ornaments reminscent of finger pads with prints](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-06/Massey%2C-Touch-%28in-the-time-of-corona%29_2.jpg?itok=__-9P0ez)
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
![ceramic jug in the shape of a rooster with yellow head and tail and black body](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-06/vasylkiv-cockerel-hero.jpg?itok=tcgaLD3Z)
Vasylkiv Cockerel
![various handshaped earthtoned bowls arranged on brick steps](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/99%20Clay%20Vessels2%20by%20Dejah%20Greene.jpg?itok=_Q9O5lyF)
[Visionaries in Craft] 99 Clay Vessels: The Muslim Women Storytelling Project
![puppeteer manipulating puppet on stage](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/Puppeteer%20Schroeder%20Cherry%20performs%20with%20one%20of%20his%20handcrafted%20puppets.%20Photo%20by%20David%20Moss%2C%20courtesy%20of%20the%20artist.jpg?itok=AxI6cvjz)
[Visionaries in Craft] African American Craft Initiative
![portrait of artist with chin on hands holding tangle of multi-colored embroidery thread with bright red background](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/HERO-Photo-by-Gloria-Araya.jpg?itok=ePChCb0G)
[Visionaries in Craft] Badass Cross Stitch
![man in red hat and jacket standing the rubble of a burned down studio](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/Eric%20Knoche.jpg?itok=X7ztxbXm)
[Visionaries in Craft] CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund)
![CRAFT EQUITY](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/craftequity_LOGO-%281%29.png?itok=nxsyfmri)
[Visionaries in Craft] Craft Equity
![group of students wearing masks working on a wood projects aroumnd a table in a workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/HERO-Intersections2.jpg?itok=AKQcjJ98)
[Visionaries in Craft] Crafting Diversity, Berea College
![man and woman working together in studio surrounded by paintings](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/HERO-GRybus-IndigoArtsAlliance-Large-16-3222_Photo-by-Gretta-Rybus.jpg?itok=1SoDe2ys)
[Visionaries in Craft] Indigo Arts Alliance
![group of artists sitting around a table in india working on a series of black white and yellow patterned textiles](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/nest_13015443.jpg?itok=vOb_xNXQ)
[Visionaries in Craft] Nest
![historic house with sign being held up in foreground that says a black craftsperson worked here](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/HERO-Anthony-Hay-Cabinet-Shop-%28reconstructed%29-Colonial-Williamsburg%2C-Williamsburg%2C-VA.-Wiltshire%2C-an-enslaved-cabinetmaker%2C-labored-at-the-cabinet-shop-from-about-1764---1770-IMG-8326.jpg?itok=nkoUwRdG)
[Visionaries in Craft] The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
![two women wearing face masks and protective glasses working in a shop at a table saw](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/HERO_DSC_0056-photo-credit-Craig-Bailey-Perspective.jpg?itok=BLnZA7kU)
[Visionaries in Craft] The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Crafts
![group of blacksmiths striking funny poses with hammers and other tools in front of a brown and green barn door](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_large_5_4/public/2022-07/CROPPED-By-Michelle.jpg?itok=LlfYllmn)