Craft Culture
Continuing Decorating Dissidence’s exploration into the legacy of the Bauhaus weaving workshops, Suzanna Petot got in touch with Erica Warren, Associate Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, to ask a few questions about her career and her most recent exhibition.
Ceramics are intimately bound up with humanity. It is an empowering practice, a simple yet uplifting way of intervening in everyday life and leaving behind a trace of our touch…
Tanicia Pratt’s poem reflecting on the vulnerabilities of the digital world
So Mayer’s poetic response to Magdalene Odundo…
Hadiya Williams is the founder of Black Pepper Paperie Co, which sells globally-inspired, one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces. Here she shares insights on ceramics contemporary moment…
Contemporary ceramic homeware
A contemporary ceramics collective responds to the COVID-19 lockdown
Jenni Sorkin leads with a new take on this tussle between two forms to argue that it was ‘modern craft and not modern art that spearheaded nonhierarchical and participatory experiences’…
Emily Wilkinson responds to Bouke de Vries
Janyce Denise Glasper explores the legacies of Augusta Savage in relation to her Black Women Writers A-Z sketches…
Rosamund Coady explores how her practice links to local communities – especially during the pandemic…
Bisila Noha details her journey through clay…
Queer(ing) Craft is guest edited by Daniel Fountain, who asks: What makes craft especially ‘queer’? What might queer craft look like?
Living Beyond Limits (20 October 2018 – 3 February 2019) at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art was a queer re-exploration of its art collection…
