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The Art Quilt Sourcebook
Featuring new works by over 260
professional artists from around the
globe.
Available from SAQA in October 2009
at the International Quilt Festival,
Houston.
or at:
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Council News
American Craft Council
Conference:
Creating a New Craft Culture
October 15-17,2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Council will host an inter-
active conference, bringing
together dynamic voices in the
field and beyond to discuss
craft’s role in a changing
world. The event, which will
take place at the Radisson
Plaza Hotel, will feature such
distinguished speakers as
Richard Sennett, professor
of sociology at New York
University and the London
School of Economics and
author of
The Craftsman
(see
page 48); Rob Walker, colum-
nist for the
New Tnrk Times
Magazine
and author of
Buy-
ing In: The Secret Dialogue Be-
tween What We Buy and JVho
W e Are;
Garth Clark, curator,
scholar, historian and galler-
ist; Sandra Alfoldy, associate
professor of craft history at
Nova Scotia College of Art
and Design; and Sonya Clark,
chair of craft and material
studies at Virginia Common-
wealth University School of
the Arts in Richmond. For
complete information on the
conference agenda, speakers
and registration, visit craft
council.org/conferenceo9.
A t the Salon
The Council’s 2009 Salon
Series program kicked off on
July 22, exploring the topic
“Craft’s Contribution to a
Sustainable World” with Fa-
ther Andrew More O’Connor,
an artist and Diocesian priest
in the Bronx, New York, dis-
cussing his innovative project
Goods of Conscience©. By
employing Guatemalan Ma-
yan weavers who hand sew
well-made, attractive and
comfortable apparel, the ven-
ture benefits the disadvan-
taged and seeks “to enhance
the spirit of worker and wear-
er alike.” The final program,
Bamboo Bike Project, took
place on August 12, with Mar-
ty Odlin, co-founder and engi-
neer of the Bamboo Bike Stu-
dio and assistant director of
the Education Center for Sus-
tainable Engineering at Co-
lumbia University', and Justin
Aguinaldo, a New York bi-
cycle messenger who brought
his knowledge of bicycle me-
chanics to the project. They
discussed the history of the
endeavor, in which a model
for social entrepreneurship
was developed to utilize a re-
newable material, bamboo,
available to many right in
their backyards.
Baltimore Here W e Come!
The Council is pleased to an-
nounce that at next year’s
American Craft Show in Balti-
more (February 25-28) two
exceptional schools—Rhode
Island School of Design and
Savannah College of Art and
Design—will present their top
students’ work in the “School
to Market” portion of the
show. Look for more soon on
this largest juried, indoor craft
show in the nation at craft
council.org.
www.freedowns.net & www.journal-plaiza.net
