Spring 2024
American Craft’s Spring 2024 issue is focused on the theme ritual.
Craft and ritual go hand in hand. In all cultures, people create items to help celebrate and mourn, to tend to themselves, and to connect with others. To make this issue, we sought craft at the center of personal, cultural, and spiritual rituals. Here you’ll discover the kinds of objects artists make in order to help us reflect and relax, relate and heal; why nameplate jewelry is so important in Chicano/a culture; the role seder plates play in Jewish traditions; how a monastery is incorporating mentorship into a new center devoted to woodworking and pipe organ building; how the piñata form is being reimagined as high art; and the ways one artist explores spirituality through Egyptian and Islamic ceramic traditions.
We hope you discover new ways of thinking about craft and ritual in this issue, and that you’re inspired to look at their roles in your own life.
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12 articles
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Morning Practice
A multidisciplinary artist tells the story of a Oaxacan candle that’s part of a daily ritual.
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Voyage to Resiliency
An artist reflects on the ritual practice of making and how craft supports our ability to relate—and heal.
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Craft That Calms
Four artists share the stories behind objects they make to help us rest and reflect.
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This Is Who I Am
Chicana musician and fashion label founder LaLa Romero of Los Angeles on the power of nameplate jewelry.
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Raising the Pinata
LA–based sculptor Roberto Benavidez makes extravagant piñatas based on artistic masterpieces that you wouldn't think of hitting with a stick.
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Telling the Story
A silversmith honors his memories of Passover by celebrating modern makers and their inspirational interpretations of the traditional seder plate.
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Light My Fire
Candlelight can change the atmosphere of a room, casting a glow on cherished objects, making evenings cozier, and softly illuminating the dinner table.
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New Releases: Spring 2024
Michael Coffey: Sculptor and furniture Maker in Wood. Craft Across Continents: Contemporary Japanese and Western Objects: The Lassiter/Ferraro Collection. Greenwood Spoon Carving. Simone Leigh. In Pursuit of Color: From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World's Most Famous Dyes.
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Remembering the “Craft-Ins”
The Crafty Librarian looks back at the first "Craft-In" in 1971.
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A Higher Plane
The new 28,000-square-foot workshop at Saint John’s Abbey houses a 150-year-old woodworking program and one of the premier pipe organ builders in the country. Its mission is to teach the next generation.
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Rituals of Making
Three artists describe the rhythms that spark their creativity.
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Across Time and Space
A trip to the Museum of Arts and Design in New York for a look at multimedia artist Shary Boyle's exhibition, Outside the Palace of Me.
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Photo by Fiona P. McDonaldBREACH: Logbook 17 "Walking Cochiti Dam," a performative work with Anna Macleod, was part of Leonard's 2017 water rights residency with Santa Fe Art Institute.
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Photo by Kelley SchuylerMegan Winn holds a stack of her handbound journals, created using reclaimed leather, handmade cotton rag paper, and antique findings.
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