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Convenor posted an update 1 week, 1 day ago

Welcome to the table, Lisa, artist, writer and curator from Chicago who has interesting views to share on recent textile art @lisavinebaum
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Welcome Akbar, from Indonesia @locokira
Convenor wrote a new post, Blue jeans craft 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Theme for 4.3 What is the place of craft in the 21st century textile industry? The story goes… In the 19th century, industrialisation was at odds with traditional crafts, particularly hand-weaving. In the 20th […]
Convenor wrote a new post, Journal of Modern Craft 4.3 1 month ago

The final issue of 2011 continues to look at craft and industrialisation, with a particular emphasis on denim.
Articles
Editorial introduction

Craft, Class, and Acculturation at the Greenwich House […]
Convenor wrote a new post, Introduction to 4.3 1 month ago

Our sibling publication at Berg, Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture, has done a wonderful job over the years in exploring the many cultural, aesthetic, and technical aspects of its specialist subject. Here at […]
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Welcome to the Table Philippa, literary researcher from Brighton @philippa
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Welcome to the Table, Jacquie, yarn bomber from Australia @jacq
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Great to have you at the Table, Judy. Enjoy the repast! @claylady
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Welcome to the Table, Garrett, @grfk
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Welcome to the Table Philippa, @philippa
Convenor wrote a new post, I Make, Therefore I Am 1 month, 1 week ago

This article is by Gillian Montegrande , the founder of Made by Hands of Britain, which promotes British craftsmanship and makes work from otherwise remote regions available for sale online. There are many […]
Convenor wrote a new post, William Morris versus Steampunk, Steampunk versus William Morris? 2 months, 1 week ago

Steampunk is the intersection of technology and romance. http://www.steampunkworkshop.com Top hats, corsets, chugging steam engines and adventurous gentlemen merrily exploring yet undiscovered secrets of the ever […]
Convenor wrote a new post, Castle of Turing–from the prophet of steampunk 2 months, 2 weeks ago

You could call Neal Stephenson the ‘prophet’ of steampunk. Much of his fiction anticipated the nostalgia for the steam age. Rather than look forward to a future filled with virtual technologies, as in William […]
Convenor wrote a new post, Steampunk – from ‘Satanic mills’ to 21st century DIY 3 months ago

Theme for 4.2

‘Steampunk’ reflects a retro-Victorian machine aesthetic. Currently in vogue, the contemporary phenomenon of ‘steampunk’ raises some curious questions.

This ‘back to the future’ nostalgia […]
Convenor wrote a new post, Craft and utopianism 3 months ago

“Many things would be easier if we could eat grass”, remarks Ernst Bloch rather unexpectedly in his monumental work The Principle of Hope. Indeed, this sounds very timely in the face of the hardships of current […]
Convenor wrote a new post, We join forces with the Critical Craft Forum 3 months, 1 week ago

The Journal of Modern Craft website aims to activate scholarly research by publishing blog posts on relevant themes and nurturing a global network of craft writers. While there are opportunities to interact on the […]
Convenor started the forum topic What’s the role of a national craft organisation? in the group Café Austral 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Australia Council recently decided to de-fund Craft Australia. Given the geographical size of Australia, it operates on a federal system, which grants some autonomy to the states. So there are a number of […]
- Judith Pearce replied 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  The issue seems to be, not that there is no longer a need for a national craft organisation in a federation of states, but rather that Object sees itself as taking on that role here in Australia in a very proactive way. Object’s tagline is “Australian Centre for Design” and it makes it clear on its About page and vision document…[Read more]
  - Kevin Murray replied 3 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thanks for pointing this out Judith. Yes, there’s no question that Object has laid very ambitious plans as a national body for design. But this does not at all cover the role that a national craft body would play. Its aims do not relate to the promotion of an ongoing national story about the things we make as expressions of place. Theirs is a…[Read more]
    - Judith Pearce replied 3 months, 1 week ago
      
      I get the feeling that design is increasingly being used as an inclusive term for ‘craft, design and creativity’. The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (http://www.daao.org.au/) renamed itself Design and Art Australia to be more inclusive, but the semantic issues reflect an ongoing unresolved dialectic. The transition from Craft…[Read more]
      
      Kevin Murray replied 3 months, 1 week ago
      
      Both design and art are relatively abstract activities that emphasis creativity and imagination. But someone somewhere is going to have to make these ideas a reality. Because thinking and making have become globally separated (think in the West and make in the East), we tend to take production and skill for granted. But I think the GFC is showing…[Read more]
      
      Judith Pearce replied 3 months, 1 week ago
      
      OK, I’m convinced! It does sound as though there will be a significant gap in the tripartite infrastructure without Craft Australia. The Arts Council Strategic Directions [1] still include craft under the Visual Arts Board. The 2002 Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy [2] had strong recommendations in 6.3 for a limited number of organisations to…[Read more]
Convenor posted an update 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms and the American Fine and Decorative Arts Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art seek submissions for the Second Annual Conference for Emerging Scholars:
“The American Arts and Crafts Movement: Work or Play?”
The title of Ernest Batchelder’s August 1909 article in The Craftsman illustrated one of the…[Read more]
Convenor commented on the post, The Best of Both Worlds: International Collaborations in Craft & Design 4 months, 1 week ago

Thanks for your contribution. Please feel free to come back with thoughts about how this approach applies to craft.
Convenor wrote a new post, The Best of Both Worlds: International Collaborations in Craft & Design 4 months, 1 week ago

Readers (and writers) of Journal of Modern Craft in Delhi are welcome to attend this public forum. The Best of Both Worlds: International Collaborations in Craft & Design Saturday 22 October 2011 5-7pm <br […]
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