I am referring to the newest issue of Cahiers métiers d'art ::: Craft
Journal Vol. 5 No 2 Printemps Spring 2012. Now, I always look forward to getting my copy in the mail
but this time I had a little more invested. You see, Elaine Cheasley Paterson and I are the guest
editors of this issue. The theme
is stated in the subtitle:
"Economy, community and self-expression–Craft and Social
Development".
Here's the line up of the contents:
Volume 5 number 2
Volume 5 numéro 2
Printemps Spring
2012
Craft
and Resilience: Northern Ontario's Emerging Cultural Identity
Métiers
d’art et résilience : Identité culturelle émergente du nord de l’Ontario
Jude
Ortiz
Hansen-Ross
Pottery: Tourist Ware or Something Else?
Les
poteries Hansen-Ross : plus qu’un produit touristique?
Julia
Krueger
Atelier
Le Cep-Grés: A Case Study
Atelier
Le Cep-Grés: une étude de cas
Mireille
Perron
Craft
Off: Performance, Competition and Anti-Social Crafting
Craft
off :
Performance, Compétition et Métiers d’art asociaux
Nicole
Burisch
Here Comes the Knitting Men: Knitting and Masculinity in the early
twenty-first century
Monsieur
tricote : tricot et masculinité au XXIe siècle
Alla
Myzelev
Comptes
rendus ::: Reviews
Prairie
Excellence
Mary
Reid
(c)
2012 Cahiers métiers d’art : Craft Journal
ISSN
1718-9802
I am going to quote from our editors' foreword to give you a
taste of the issue:
From the
socialism of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical interventions proposed
by "craftivists", the material, makers and processes of craft have
been mobilized for social change.
Based on this insight a call for papers went out for the 2010
Universities Art Association of Canada conference, craft session. The papers presented, selected,
expanded and revised, discuss the communities created through craft –whether on
a local, global or virtual level.
Craft
production is embedded in living culture and heritage and is seen as expressing
cultural identity. For better or
for worse, it gets pressed into social service because craft is perceived as
accessible and useful.
Historically, this has taken the form of job and revenue creation
through the sale of products based on traditional skills like weaving, rug
hooking and knitting. Communities
created through craft in this way range in time and space from the Grenfell
Mission in Labrador and the Home Arts Association in Great Britain to more
recent initiatives like the Navajo Crownpoint Rug Auction.
Examples of
craft and micro-economies persist today and are linked with contemporary
lifestyle issues of creating, buying and consuming "local"…
And then we go on to comment how this is borne out in the
particular papers.
Like Cmagazine I consider the Cahiers to be one of those
publications that is under-read and I sincerely recommend it to anyone and
everyone. Happy reading!
Oh and before I forget here's a link to their website in
case you want to check it out:
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