Since its founding in 1941, American Craft, known first as Craft Horizons, has been the principal investigator, promoter, and mirror of the contemporary craft movement in the United States.

With generous support by the National Endowment for the Arts, the first 25 years of Craft Horizons have been digitized, making craft history widely available for the first time in our Digital Collections. Scholars, artists, and enthusiasts now have the ability to access a wide span of this seminal publication that will provide new insight into the multiplicity of where the field of craft has been, where it is now, and where it might be going.

The above video captures a presentation originally given by American Craft's editor in chief, Monica Moses, and ACC's librarian, Jessica Shaykett, at SOFA Chicago in 2013. Watch as they share American Craft’s early years, the magazine's approach today, and a vision for its future.