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Introduction The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Namita Gupta Wiggers
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Where Craft Starts The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Tom Martin
This essay illustrates my pedagogical approach on the MA in Critical Craft Studies (MACR) and explains some of the philosophical commitments that underpinned my teaching there. Working as Core Facu...
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On Dullness: A Sensory Portrait The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Kate Hawes
Dullness is a quality that is hard to pin down for a woodworker; it defies easy definitions, and yet has the power to radically change the temper of experience. Using methods of self-observation dr...
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Material Agency and Mutual Transformation: Found Objects as Materials for Making The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Amy Meissner
Taking as its point of departure the personal experience of finding a discarded rope on a remote beach, this essay describes the way found objects assert agency to become craft materials, and how, ...
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Craft, Crises and Colonialism: Reimagining Puerto Rico The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Maru López
In this essay, I engage with the work of Puerto Rican artist Javier Orfón. Orfón expands notions of Puerto Rican identity through his exploration of craft knowledges. In his practice he learns abou...
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Craft on the Dirt Circuit: Commerce and Community at a Contemporary Renaissance Festival The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Lexie Harvey
This article considers the significance of the “dirt circuit,” the cyclical tour of Renaissance Festivals in the eastern US state of Maryland that craft vendors and performers take each year, as a ...
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Soil and Life in the Field of Craft Studies The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Danielle Burke
This Statement of Practice speaks to my role as the Program Coordinator for the MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina from 2018 to 2020. I share how I i...
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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Sara Clugage
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Darkhouse Lighthouse The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Miriam Devlin
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jill Kingsley DiMassimo
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Studio Ceramics The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Martina Margetts
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Journal Editors
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Obscured Brilliance: Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Lacquer The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elizabeth K. Thomson
This article gives a brief overview of the development of Vietnamese lacquer painting, a unique art form, which came into being due to French and Vietnamese artists collaborating in the 1920s and h...
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Between Conventional Borders: Excerpts from the {Queer} + {Metals} Project The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Rebekah Frank
This Statement of Practice presents {Queer} + {Metals}, a multilayered project that engaged an international cohort of artists in a conversation about the intersection of queerness and metalsmithin...
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Commentary The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Philip Conford
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Extracts from “A Civilization of Technics” (1945) The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Philip Mairet
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elizabeth Guffey
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Queer Threads The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Nicole Archer
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jessica Hemmings
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Performing Craft in Mexico: Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Anna Hoddé
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence, and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sarah Parrish
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Works in Thread and the Emergence of Israeli Fiber Art The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Noga Bernstein
This article discusses the history of textile exhibitions in Israel during the state’s first three decades, focusing on the seminal yet completely overlooked exhibition Works in Thread, held at the...
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Identity Navigation and Self-Positioning in a Changing Craft World: Creativity and Cultures of Emerging Self-Employed Craft Workers in Jingdezhen The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ruoxi Liu
Following four-months of ethnographic fieldwork among the young, self-employed craft workers in Jingdezhen, this article explores the diverse identities and emerging cultures associated with craft ...
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Editorial The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Journal Editors
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950 The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Aadil Yaseen
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Lost Weavings of Atlanta: A Report The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Susan Richmond, Jess Jones
Abstract This article explores the history of corporate weaving commissions in Atlanta, during the height of the international fiber art movement of the 1970s through the 1990s. This period witnessed a coordinated strategy to install large-scale textile works in many of the city’s newer buildings. With few exceptions, the fate of these works remains unknown, as do the original circumstances of their
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Cape Verdean Tapestry and the Artistic Renewal of a Nation: Don’t Let the Weaving Die The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Ana Nolasco
Abstract In this article I analyse how tapestry contributed to the affirmation of post-colonial identity in Cape Verde. After the archipelago’s independence in 1975, the dissemination and renewal of craft was one of the ways to generate a new Cape Verdean identity, its popular character facilitating its spread to the entire population. The Cooperativa Resistência founded in 1976, was given the task
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Black Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Jareh Das
Abstract Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art set out to explore form and function as this relates to object histories. In presenting a range of ceramics and clay artworks by an intergeneration of Black women artists working with clay, the exhibition conveys the material’s conceptual, transformative and metaphoric qualities. Additionally, it brings to the foreground a group
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Commentary The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Glenn Adamson
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Traditional Women’s Arts (1978) The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Amy Goldin
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Ceramics in the Expanded Field The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Kendall DeBoer
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Maddy Henkin
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Elli Michaela Young
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Martina Margetts
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Introduction: Disrupting Boundaries: The Politics of Craft Exhibitions The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Imogen Hart, Claire Jones, Inês Jorge
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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The Philippine Craftsman: Empire, Education, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Marie Lo
Abstract Shortly after the Philippines was annexed by the United States in 1898, representations of Filipinos in the US popular imagination became inseparable from the sensationalist Philippine exhibition at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Of the more than 1,000 Filipinos and indigenous peoples who made up this “live exhibition,” the Bontoc Igorots, portrayed as savage “dog eaters
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A Collective Fabric on a Cane Loom: a Weaving Workshop by Marta Palau in the 1986 Bienal de La Habana The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Paloma Checa-Gismero
Abstract This essay addresses the inclusion of artist-run craft workshops in the second iteration of the Bienal de La Habana (1986), held in Cuba’s capital city. Advertised as spaces for technical training and the cultivation of subaltern solidarity, these events offered crucial opportunities for so-called Third World artists to meet, learn new skills, and develop an international reputation within
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“Weaving Workshop Proposal,” c.1986 The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Marta Palau
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Faith Ringgold: American People The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Caroline Kipp
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Chloe Austin
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Maiko Tsutsumi
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Meghen Jones
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Making Trouble: Design and Material Activism The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Julie Hollenbach
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Equally Present Temporalities: Craft and the Contemporary at the Museo del Barro, Paraguay The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Sofia Gotti
Abstract Since the 1980s, it has been a priority for Paraguayan scholars to question and remap the canonical division of craft and art. Thinker and critic Ticio Escobar, alongside prominent historical figures in Paraguay such as Olga Blinder, Carlos Colombino and Osvaldo Salerno, have worked tirelessly to institutionalize indigenous art on par with what Escobar terms “erudite art” or the “critical-illustrated
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Marcia Tucker’s Domestic Politics: Art and Craft in the 1990s The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Elyse Speaks
Abstract While today process-driven work affiliated with craft, outsider art, and folk art is increasingly considered a viable politicized or conceptual practice, this essay focuses on the 1996 New Museum exhibition, A Labor of Love, in order to examine Marcia Tucker’s unconventional use of “domestic” politics to promote and activate objects often read as bound to their materiality. This article offers
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Introduction: Exhibiting Craft: Histories, Contexts, Practices Exhibiting Making: Gesture, Skill and Process The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Imogen Hart, Claire Jones, Inês Jorge
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The Exhibition as Critical Craft Practice: London’s Little Gallery in 1939 The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Imogen Hart
Abstract In the summer of 1939, an exhibition of hand-printed wallpapers by Edward Bawden and John Aldridge was held at the Little Gallery, a craft gallery in London co-run by curator Muriel Rose and Margaret Turnbull. This article analyzes the exhibition as critical craft practice, arguing that the exhibition both illuminates the capacities of craft as a critical process and itself constitutes a form
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Exhibiting Know-How: Curatorial Strategies for the Display of Artisanal Technical Gestures The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Inés Moreno
Abstract The exhibition of know-how and artisanal technical gestures has become a concern for many contemporary museums and artistic institutions. The following analysis of the ethnography-based curatorial project Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the group show The Mind Begins and Ends in the Fingertips at Palais de Tokyo, and the two-fold exhibition The Beauty of
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Curating Work: A Series of Exhibitions at the Musée des arts et métiers (2017–2021) The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Arnaud Dubois
Abstract Following the line of inquiry developed in the field of the anthropology of technology, the series of exhibitions I developed at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris around the theme of “Curating Work” explores the methodological strategies that can be used as a curator to bring back people and bodily knowledge within a technical collection of one of the oldest museums of technology in Europe
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Beyond Craft: Textile Practices in the Art Museum The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Ann Coxon
Abstract Textiles have traditionally fallen beyond the collecting and exhibiting remit of museums of modern and contemporary art. In recent years, however, there has been a re-appraisal of their place within canonical narratives of fine art history and practice. Beginning with a consideration of the expanded retrospective of the work of Anni Albers staged at K20 Düsseldorf and Tate Modern in 2018,
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The Nineteenth-Century Industrial Worker as Exhibition Visitor: Ways of Engaging with Making The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Claire Jones
Abstract This essay focuses on the skilled industrial worker as an exhibition visitor in the second half of the nineteenth century. It analyzes two exhibitionary spaces that have been central to the display and categorization of made things: the museum and the international exhibition. The first part of the essay considers how industrial workers were represented as museum visitors, through close analysis
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So Far and Yet So Near: The Artistic Residencies of Contextile Biennale Amidst a Pandemic The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Inês Jorge
Abstract Held in the Portuguese city of Guimarães since 2012, Contextile: Contemporary Textile Art Biennial was one of the first international events to adjust to the successive lockdowns of COVID-19. Its fifth edition in 2020 included an artist-in-residency program, with two of the eight participants working remotely from their studios. This essay examines the combination of on-site and distant approaches
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“The Gesture Is Everything”: Interview with the Artisan Isabel Oliveira The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Inês Jorge, Isabel Oliveira
Abstract The following extracts are from an interview between Inês Jorge and Isabel Oliveira, one of three remaining professional practitioners of Guimarães Embroidery. All women, these artisans have been invited to participate in the artistic residencies of Contextile: Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, an event held in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, since 2012. The conversation took place in September
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Katie Schwab: small wares The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Victoria Anastasyadis
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Woody De Othello: Hope Omens The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 R. Ruthie Dibble
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Amanda Thompson
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Marilyn Zapf
Published in The Journal of Modern Craft (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Editorial The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Journal Editors
(2022). Editorial. The Journal of Modern Craft: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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In Conversation with Bill Hooks The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Alice Blackstock, Philip Crewe
Abstract This Statement documents and reflects upon the collaborative project between artist Alice Blackstock and designer/maker Philip Crewe that investigated a bladed tool called a billhook. The 2019 collaboration was initiated by a visit to the extensive archive in the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) and developed into the creation of five object sets that explore the loss of purpose, material
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Commentary: Gabriela Mistral on Craft The Journal of Modern Craft (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Pablo Rojas
(2022). Commentary: Gabriela Mistral on Craft. The Journal of Modern Craft: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 69-70.