Category: Education

  • North House Folk School at 20

    In the classroom my leather tote bag class was held at North House Folk School is a splendid wall installation, with small samples showing the variety of craft at North House. From the information sheet: In celebration of twenty years of hands-on learning at North House, all instructors, current and emeritus, intern alumni and staff were…

  • Sonya Clark at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

    Sonya Clark chairs the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Sonya is currently well-represented in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area – she had three simultaneous shows. As part of her inclusion in Minneapolis Institute of Art’s “State of the Arts: Discovering American Art Now,” she recently spoke at that institution, and I…

  • Antique Pattern Library

    So here’s something that I want to share: the digitization of out-of-copyright craft books in the Antique Pattern Library: “This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain, to preserve them, so we can keep our craft heritages in our hands. Most of these scans have been…

  • David Dean seminar

    Beading in the Native American Tradition by David Dean is one of my go-to references for Native beading. If you’re in Oklahoma, I just read in the Gilmer Mirror that Dean is teaching a seminar on Native American beadwork: “Items to be discussed include how to buy beads and supplies, basic instruction in four different…

  • Online inspiration in the American Craft Council Library digital archives

    I work as a librarian in two different jobs, one of which is for the American Craft Council Library. The ACC Library has many resources available to the public, if you are able to visit our location in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, and artists files (possibly including photographs, slides, resumes, exhibition…