American Craft (magazine) explained

American Craft
Editor:Karen Olson
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Category:Arts and crafts
Publisher:American Craft Council
Founder:Aileen Osborn Webb
Founded:1941 (as Craft Horizons)
Firstdate:May 1979 (as American Craft)
Country:USA
Language:English

American Craft is a periodical magazine that documents crafts, craft artists, and both practical and creative aspects of the field of American craft.[1] Originally founded by Aileen Osborn Webb in 1941 as Craft Horizons, the magazine has been published by the nonprofit American Craft Council under the title American Craft since November 1979.

As of 1979, the magazine's monthly circulation averaged 40,000 copies, making it the main craft publication in the United States.[2] As American Craft, the magazine developed "a more visual orientation as a coffee-table magazine".[3] After the National Endowment for the Arts began to award grants to individual craftspeople in 1973, American Craft profiled major NEA craft recipients.[3] However, its reviews were often limited to "one or two in-depth commentaries" accompanied by a "visual summary of shows".[4]

Like its predecessor, which both "documented and shaped" the changing history of the American craft movement,[5] American Craft has reflected the development of craft.[6] Writers such as Ed Rossbach have examined the history of craft in its pages. In the 1980s Rossbach wrote a series of articles describing tensions between textile artists Mary Meigs Atwater, Anni Albers, Dorothy Liebes and Marianne Strengell in the 1940s.[3] In 1993, the magazine marked its 50th anniversary and the national "Year of American Craft" with a commemorative issue profiling the previous fifty years.[7] [8] American Craft was described in 1994 as a "major scholarly periodical" of interest to both researchers and serious craftspeople.[7]

American Crafts current editor is Karen Olson (2020-).[9] Previous editors-in-chief include Deborah Pines, Pat Dandignac,Lois Moran (1980 to 2006),[10] Andrew Wagner (2007-2009),Janet Koplos (guest editor, 2009-2010),Shannon Sharpe (deputy editor),Monica Moses (June 2010 to January 2018)[11] andMegan Guerber (2018-2020).[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Loughran . Maire . How to Start a Home-Based Jewelry Making Business . 14 July 2009 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-7627-5596-7 . 1 June 2022 . en.
  2. Zaiden . Emily . An unyielding commitment to craft: Aileen Osborn Webb and the American Craft Council . Archives of American Art Journal . 2011 . 50 . 3–4 . 10–15 . 10.1086/aaa.50.3_4.23355884 . 191929927 . 4 September 2021.
  3. Book: Koplos . Janet . Metcalf . Bruce . Makers: A History of American Studio Craft . 31 July 2010 . University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill, North Carolina . 978-0-8078-9583-2 . 1 June 2022 . en.
  4. Book: Fariello . M. Anna . Owen . Paula . Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft . 2005 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-5701-8 . 1 June 2022 . en.
  5. Web site: Selected articles from Craft Horizons magazine . Minnesota Museum of American Art . 4 September 2021.
  6. Book: Mayer . Barbara . Contemporary American Craft Art: A Collector's Guide . 1988 . Peregrine Smith Books . 978-0-87905-284-3 . 47 . 1 June 2022 . en.
  7. Book: Reynolds . Judy . Hujsak . Mary Dodge . Craft Information Sources . Reference Services in the Humanities . 11 November 1994 . CRC Press . 978-1-56024-692-3 . 5–22 . en.
  8. Web site: Moses . Monica . Remembering an Unusual Exhibition at the White House . American Craft Council. September 17, 2018 . 1 June 2022 . en.
  9. Web site: Karen Olson . American Craft Council . 1 June 2022 . en.
  10. Web site: Lovelace . Joyce . Remembering: Lois Moran . American Craft Council . 1 June 2022. January 26, 2021 . en.
  11. Web site: Monica Moses . American Craft Council . 1 June 2022 . en.
  12. Web site: Series 15 Craft Horizons/American Craft Historical Note . American Craft Council Archives . 1 June 2022.