Early this year, the ACC selected four artist-writers as the initial cohort in its Regional Craft Correspondents program, an initiative supported by a grant from the Windgate Foundation. The quartet have deep roots in their regions and lively curiosity about what’s best, newest, and most noteworthy in the craft worlds they inhabit. We’re delighted to introduce them.
Northeast (Maine to Washington D.C.): Kate Schuler is a Washington, DC–based ceramist and journalist who has also explored woodworking, sewing, and other crafts. “The urban cost of living here is high, and it’s fascinating to me how people work through that to practice their crafts,” she says. “The Northeast has a rich diversity of cultures, and craftspeople bring their own traditions while also influencing existing ones.”
Southeast (Virginia to Louisiana): Robert Alan Grand, a veteran journalist and photographer and self-described “craft dabbler” based in Asheville, North Carolina, says that he hopes to use his correspondent position to “show the diversity of craft perspectives and approaches in a region often dismissed as monolithic” and “to show how craft can serve as a radical, subversive tool for protest, reform, or advocacy.”
Kate Schuler.
