Redefining Craft Art, Craft, Design, Huh?
1. Inching Toward a More Reflective Craft
As the frequency of my postings has dropped off lately, one might surmise that I have been busy.  Indeed, this is the case as I have been teaching ceramics this semester at Queens College and in addition, in late-March I started a new position as the visitor center manager for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT.  [...]
2. Penland Dips its Toe in Web 2.0.
While checking in on the news on the Penland website, I recently ran across a series of videos that they have begun to produce and distribute via YouTube. For those readers that are not familiar with the place, Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in Western North Carolina [...]
3. FlashMob Experiment for Craft
As a social experiment in Flash Mobbing, I put together a call-in talk show today at 1:00. Although, no one was able to call in, I did get some things off my chest in light of Carmine Branagan’s recent departure from the American Craft Council and the future of the organization. As always, I welcome your comments. Correction: [...]
4. This just in: The times certainly are a-changin’
The following announcement arrived in my email in-box shortly before 6 PM (E.S.T.) today: Carmine Branagan has resigned as Executive Director of the American Craft Council effective Friday, November 9th. Carmine served the Council with passion and dedication since 2002. Under her leadership the Council re-launched American Craft magazine, presented a national leadership conference in Houston, [...]
5. Craft In America Promo
Here is the promotional reel for the Craft In America project which has aired recently on PBS. A DVD and book are also available online; an exhibition is touring the country through 2009. I welcome everyone’s comments. Enjoy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1boKyiDSKBQ
6. Design and the fall of higher pursuits
This is a guest posting on Redefining Craft from Andrew Maydoney, who is currently a graduate student in the photography MFA program at a small little art school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. From 1996 to 2006, he worked as an executive for Sametz Blackstone Associates, a Boston-based communications consulting firm. MassArt has just officially changed their [...]
7. An Art-Craft Juxtapose on Feminism
This morning, I am off to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for a conference called The Object and Making: Function and Meaning. I am hoping to return to New York renewed, refreshed and optimistic about the future of craft. As some of you may have gathered from the cynicism and ire in my most recent post [...]
8. A New Podcast Concerning the Re-shaping of Knowledge
Here’s the podcast from my call-in show experiment from Sunday April 8th, 2007. While no one called in explicitly to have a conversation about my topic, I did manage to test the platform. I also articulated what I think needs to happen to move this “redefining craft” conversation forward on this site [...]
9. Call-In Talk Show Update
As an update, we remain on track for the call in talk show on: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 at 2:30-3:30 P.M. EST. As a starting point, we will pursue the following questions: What does it mean to study craft in the twenty-first century? How are academic study programs for craft within higher education preparing students for [...]
10. April 8th, Call-In Podcast Show
I am hosting a call in talk show for Redefining Craft on: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 at 2:30-3:30 P.M. EST. I am looking for interested parties to converse with, after all what good is it if I just talk at you? Anyone can listen in, but if you want to call in and make [...]
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