Vol. 2 No. 2

Fall/Winter 2007

CONTENTS

East to West & North to South: Embracing Contradictions
To intervene in a local handicraft or folk art geared to the tourist market and broker it as home décor is riddled with contractions beyond just financial ones. By Kelly Rude

The Identity of Craft: Craft is Dead, Long Live Craft
Craft, it seems, is suffering from an identity crisis, as funding from cultural bodies dries up and parent institutions undertake name changes. But is it as simple as saying that the outside world doesn’t understand? By G. Arno Verhoeven

RedefiningCanadian Studio Glass
After experiencing a formative period for the glass movement in Canada, and then an expansive period, we are now experiencing a time of fragmentation – always a scary word to use about glass. By Alan Elder

Married to Craft
Meet a special breed of jewelers who have chosen to mesh their personal and professional lives by sharing their creative passions with their spouse. By Maegen Black

The Axis of Art
It is time to seriously review the creator-connector-collector triad and its importance to healthy viable arts relationship. By Jonathon Bancroft Snell

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