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American Craft Forums are free online conversations that bring the community together to explore new ways of thinking about craft. Tying into the themes of each issue of American Craft, these discussions feature diverse voices working together to move the craft field forward.

Videography by Kimi Mojica

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Forward Motion: How craft can help us move from a crisis of care to a culture of care

This Craft Forum took place April 1, 2021
Presented in conjunction with the Spring 2021 issue of American Craft.

Watch this Forum below or visit our YouTube channel.

A conversation with artists and maker communities who put care at the center of their practice and offer insights into where we go from here and how craft can take us there. Marking one year of living under the shadow of a global pandemic, we took an opportunity to pause, to look around us, to reflect. The difficulties we have all grappled with this year have amplified fissures in our society’s concept of care. Reflecting on this pivotal moment, we asked how craft can comfort us and move us from a crisis of care to a culture of care. Craft, we know, makes care tangible—through our physical relationship to materials, and through the movements and gestures of making. And, craft was made to meet moments like these, connecting us to ourselves, the land, and our shared humanity.

We designed this American Craft Forum to build on the themes explored in the Spring 2021 issue of American Craft.

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