The latest issue of The Crafty Librarian, the quarterly newsletter of the American Craft Council Library, is now available for download.

https://www.craftcouncil.org/library-archives/newsletter

The meeting minutes for the Spring 2023 SIG meeting are now available on the the SIG WordPress site:

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design SIG Meeting Minutes

The meeting was recorded, and the recording should be added to the ARLIS/NA Kaltura Channel in the near future.  Stay tuned!

Take a look at the presentation dropped in CORE by Cara Barker, member of the Dec Arts, Craft and Design SIG.  Her presentation “Teaching Myself Taxidermy in my Kitchen: Supporting Studio Art Students Through Collection Development” suggests that the T (technonlgy) section of LC is highly valuable to studio art students who are interested in…[Read more]

The Stewart Program for Modern Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has published a beautiful new website for the project Designed By Women.

“It presents the design contributions of women from around the world. Works date from 1900 to the present and are drawn from the Stewart Collection, formed under the leadership of philanthropist…[Read more]

The minutes from the Winter 2023 SIG meeting and the Book Share List compiled at that meeting are now posted and available on the SIG website:

Winter 2023 SIG Meeting Minutes

Winter 2023 Book Share List

*Save the Date*

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Annual Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 27 at 2:00pm Central time.…[Read more]

I want to share this information about a series of courses on craft history offered at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.  “Taught by craft historian Rachael Schwabe, the course is presented in three modules, each composed of two online lectures with discussion and one field trip.”
What is Craft History?

• Crafting Modernism, April…

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Read the latest edition of the American Craft Council Library’s newsletter The Crafty Librarian, available for download.  https://www.craftcouncil.org/library-archives/newsletter

Content includes

• Highlights from 80 years of the American Craft Council archives
• Suggested reading for Black History Month
• New Acquisitions
• Moon pots by…

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Please save the date for the Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Winter Meeting to be held Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 at 3pm Eastern, 2pm Central, 1pm Mountain, 12pm Pacific on Zoom.  Register for the meeting here; a link to the will be sent out the day before the meeting.  All are welcome to attend.  https://forms.gle/<wbr />Ed…[Read more]

Two new articles have been posted to the Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG website.  See the latest issue of the American Craft Council’s Crafty Librarian newsletter, and an announcement from the Scholes Library at Alfred University about their recent gift of ceramic objects from the Winterthur Museum Garden and Library.  Access the articles h…[Read more]

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG will hold its Fall meeting on Tuesday, November 15 at 3:00pm Eastern, 2:00pm Central, 1:00pm Mountain, 12:00pm Pacific via Zoom.  This meeting will include a brief program by SIG member John Russell and colleague Sarah Rich on the Center for Virtual/Material Studies at Penn State University.  Also think ab…[Read more]

I recently received an email from Mary Mark Ockerbloom who has been involved in  projects to expand Wikidata on craft topics.  She recently alerted me to a new project she has created: WikiProject_Craft.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Craft.  I’m sharing her communcation here for anyone interested in Wikidata and cra…[Read more]

The latest issue of my quarterly newsletter The Crafty Librarian has just been released.  Read some of the latest news about the American Craft Council library and collections here:  https://www.craftcouncil.org/library-archives/newsletter

Read SIG member Joan Benedetti’s article “A New Craft History Paradigm” in the latest issue of Art Documentation.  You can access the article online from the ARLIS/NA website by logging in to access member restricted content.  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/adx/current