Considering Craft: Past, Present And Future

Over four days in early July, a group of close to 100 artists, curators, collectors, and scholars came together to attend the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2019 Summer Conference.

Called Craft & Legacy: Writing a History, Preserving a Field, the conference was presented by Haystack in collaboration with the Center for Craft and “designed to surface issues and identify solutions to vital questions facing the preservation and legacy of the field of American craft.” Atiyah Curmally, a master’s degree candidate in the Smithsonian-Corcoran George Washington University Decorative Arts and Design History program, attended the event and kindly provided AJF with a review of the proceedings.

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