Photo/James Visser.
C O N T E N T S
american
craft
Vol. 69, No. 2
April/M ay 2009
D epartm ents
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Letters
W hat’s on your mind?
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Editor’s Letter
Is it spring yet? Andrew
Wagner sure hopes so.
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Zoom
Your personal guide to the note-
worthy and the unexpected
in shows, products and talent.
In this issue, тлі Gallery, Ethel
Stein’s weavings, Frances Palm-
er’s ceramics, hooking in Con-
necticut and more.
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Material Culture
Aitch gives us the scoop
amazingly creative,
pleasing and eco-
friendly uses to which a Lon-
don-based artist puts one of
the world’s foremost gross-out
materials—poop.
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Outskirts
We Work in a Fragile Material,
a Swedish design collective,
finds strength in numbers. David
Sokol reports on their rambunc-
projects.
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Reviewed
Thomas Piché Jr. critiques Nan-
cy Jurs’s diaristic retrospective
“50/50” at the Everson Museum
of Art in Syracuse, while Erik
Scollen considers Scandinavian
craft in an “irreverent” vein at
the Yerba Buena Center for the
Published by the
American Craft Council
www.craftcounci 1 .org
On the Cover:
Anna Wolf photographs
Kathryn Pannepacker,
styled by Barbara
Rotting, in front of
H all o f Rugs #2,
part
of her Philadelphia
murals project that
represents the global
language of textiles,
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Above:
A detail of Jennifer
Angus’s insect wall
installation at Craft
Alliance in St. Louis,
in which viewers may
find unexpected
and fearsome beauty,
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Arts in San Francisco.
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Hunting and Gathering
Setting aside the yuck factor,
how does Jennifer Angus find
and acquire the thousands of
insects she deploys in her re-
markable wallpaper-like installa-
tions? Jody Clowes explores
her art and tracks her adventures
as a bug collector.
Photography by James Visser
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The Wide World of Craft
In the shadows of jazz bands,
gumbo chefs and recently even
“Top Chefs,” an eclectic visual
arts scene is thriving in galler-
ies, museums, arts centers and
on the streets of New Orleans.
Sonya Stinson takes its pulse.
Photography by Brady Fontenot
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From the Stacks
The December 1974 issue of
Craft Horizons
published a con-
versation between ceramists
Jack Earl and Tom La Dousa
describing their experiences as
the first artists in residence
in the John Michael Kohler Arts
Center’s Arts/Industry pro-
gram. Here’s a peek at “Fantasy
at Kohler” and Christine
Kaminsky’s account of impor-
tant ramifications of this
groundbreaking program.
