Summer 2023
American Craft‘s Summer 2023 issue is focused on the theme wild.
In this issue, you’ll find craft inspired by nature. You’ll learn about artists who incorporate foraged materials into their work, and makers whose handcrafted adventure gear helps move us outdoors. You’ll also discover up-and-coming artists whose love of the land shines through, such as Diné textile artist and sheepherder Tyrrell Tapaha and Florida-based designer Elle Barbeito, who makes fashion and furniture from the skins of invasive Burmese pythons.
We hope you feel connected to the wonder of the wild, grounded in earth’s materials, and awed by human creativity.
Inside this issue.
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12 articles
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Fantastical Microcosms
Metalsmith So Young Park makes jewelry that evokes some of nature's most complex and flamboyant forms.
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Origin Stories
How the foraging and processing of natural materials can expand our thinking, our maps, and our empathy.
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Dazzling Pictorials
Diné fiber artist and sheepherder Tyrrell Tapaha combines the traditional with the personal.
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Adventure Craft
These dedicated makers help get us outdoors with handcrafted gear that connects us to the natural world.
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The Glass Alchemist
Josh Simpson has been exploring the science of glass for 50 years—and his extraordinary planets have made their way around the world.
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Wild at Heart
The Crafty Librarian dives into the nearly 4,000 artist files in the ACC Library & Archives and discovered that these two artists in particular spent their careers developing and showing their wild sides.
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The Hammer Price
Craft auctions are heating up. Here's what you need to know before raising your paddle.
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Painting with Wood
Marquetry hybrid artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s Brooklyn studio—full of wood veneer pieces, tools, and a prized coffee maker—is where a spark of an idea is refined into physical form.
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Second Skins
Elle Barbeito transforms the skins of invasive Burmese pythons into materials for furniture and fashion.
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Wild Style
It takes Santa Fe artist Brie Ruais about 15 minutes to make these large ceramic sculptures.
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The Scene: Craft in Detroit
A portrait of this ever-changing city through the eyes of local craft artists.
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Photo by Bill HatcherArtist Tyrell Tapaha weaves Think for Yourself at their great-grandmother's home in Arizona.
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Photo courtesy of Friedman Benda and Chris Schanck.Chris Schanck among works including The Universe is Left-handed (hand in left foreground and white “totem” at back left), steel, polystyrene, aluminum foil, resin, glass; Fluorescence (chandelier), steel, sticks, found objects, polyurea, resin; and The Eye of the Little God (mirror on back wall), steel, wood, polystyrene, polyurea, aluminum foil, resin.
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