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2005
Andy Bray man opens
Matter Factory and Easy
Ceramic Decals in Kansas
City, KS, fostering the
widespread use of decals
on contemporary ceramics.
t 2004
Debbie Stoller’s DIY
favorite
Stitch
TV
Bitch:
The Knitter's Handbook
is published.
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2007
“Radical Lace & Subversive
Knitting” opens at New
York’s Museum of Arts and
Design. The exhibition
showcases a new generation
of transgressive crafters.
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2007
“Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde
Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt
Collection” opens at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, then travels to other
venues. The comprehensive catalog
showcases Drutt’s internationally
recognized collection.
2008
The College Book Art
Association is established
to promote book arts
education with a biennial
conference and online
journal.
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Craft in America,
a major
exhibition, book, and PBS
series is released and wins a
Peabody award.
4 2008
The Museum of Arts and
Design (formerly the
American Craft Museum)
relocates to Columbus
Circle and triples its size.
4 2008
Faythe Levine’s
Handmade
Nation
, on the rise of indie
craft, is published; an accom-
panying documentary screens
in ’09 at the Museum of Arts
and Design and the Renwick,
among other places.
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GaUeryi Smithsonian American
A rt Museum
is published, illumi-
nating the work of important
makers in the movement.
4 2010
Makers: A History• o f American
Studio Craft
, the long-awaited first
comprehensive textbook, written by
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf,
is published, funded by the Center
for Craft, Creativity and Design.
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Matthew B. Crawford’s
essay “Shop Class as
Soulcraft” appears in
The New Atlantis
and is
later expanded into a
best-selling book.
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The first issue of the short-
lived but influential maga-
zine
Craft: Transforming
Traditional Crafts
is pub-
lished by O’Reilly Media.
It lives on as a web-only
enterprise, Craftzine.com.
2010
In her pseudo how-to book
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor
People
, comedian Amy Sedaris
sends up a DIY culture in which
virtually anyone without a job
and access to pipe cleaners can
join the elite society of crafters/
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4 2011
Meredith Corp.
shutters
Readymade
after a 10-ycar run.
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Retro drama
M ad M en
premieres on AMC,
introducing midcentury
modern design to a
Gen Y audience.
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Damien Hirst, the latest in a long line of
bad-boy artists, creates a diamond-cncrustcd
plaster cast of a skull,
For the Love o f God,
influenced by pre-Columbian masks
encrusted in turquoise. Bloomberg News
reports that it’s sold for $100 million to
a consortium that includes Hirst himself.
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