A classic text in sociology is rediscovered as a revelation for contemporary craft

Lecture to the Chicago Institute of Art 3 October 2007 as part of a series associated with the Object of Labor publication

An exhibition plays with the role of context in how we appreciate human expression

The 2007 Craft Victoria Annual Lecture describes a new wave of collaborations between craft and design in Latin America that reflects a world turning to cultural roots as a source of innovation.

Four New Zealand jewellers deal with the haunted history of colonialism

A Toronto forum on product development of third world artisans leaves many questions unanswered

A look at the historical development of Faience pottery in Toulouse and the challenges faced in sustainability today

A paper for the 21 April forum at Wangaratta Regional Gallery looks at the presence and absence of nature in Australian jewellery and points to a new 'tactile' encounter with the elements

Shepparton's growing Afghani community embarks on a complex negotation of their new identity through a craft collaboration.

An exhibition of white ceramics throws up a mirror to our quest for body conformity

This extract from forthcoming publication 'Thinking Through Craft' questions the place of the pastoral at the heart of the craft movement

The respondent responds to the attack on Bernard Leach with an oriental detour

The limits of ceramic tradition and the openness of the vessel as an art form

The lure of the big prizes does not mean we should abandon our craft

A ceramicist translates her poetry of the everday into a Chilean vernacular

Three projects explore new terrain for jewellery as a performative practice.

A history of the modern shoe reveals an ongoing quest to move up in the world

An exchange between Australian and Thai ceramicists reveals a sampling of living traditions

A call for the need to develop a way of talking about ceramics that is relevant to the 21st century but still reflects the unique qualities of clay

A conferences explores the common but risky ground between craft and anthropology

Danish craft theorist outlines the role of 'super objects' that interpret our material culture.

What craft means in Nynorsk (Norwegian) and the emergence of the 'restless object'

From a philosophical perspective, it is our hands that tell us about the value of the ordinary things in life.

From little things, big things grow

A printmaker asks, 'Why set type letter by letter when digital technologies allow cheap, fast, high-quality printing?'

A theatre director reflects on the reason for his craft, and discovers the precious possibility of failure in 'live' arts.

Western makers have found the Chinese chair both an inspiration for modernism and a reminder of its relationship to the human body.

A South African artist commissions a Ballieu-style tapestry to commemorate contemporary political struggle in a traditional medium

The journey into the world of relational art finds some initial problems for craft, but it also opens new horizons

A well-meaning venture to develop craft with a victim group leads to initial disappointment then unexpected success

A weaver writes about the revealing experience of working in the public eye

An example of 'upholdstery' that dramatises the pathos of furniture

'Made in China' need not be purely for export. A new program seeks to develop local skills in stone artisanship

A presentation to the Actaze colloquium in Paris about the South Project and its role in developing a wheel that connects the spokes radiating out of the metropolitan hubs.

"With my barrels I seek to provoke people's minds and raise civil consciousness to question the war and make them actively participate in the efforts to stop the war"

Ceramicist Gary Healy was invited to write about what concerns about education prompted him to establish a Wheel Thrown Ceramic award

The 2005 Craft Victoria Annual Lecture examines the impact of new media on contemporary craft and design

The potential of Indonesian art to recover craft (Kria) from the tourist trap

In August 2005, subscribers to Craft Almanac were asked a variety of questions about the state of contemproary craft. The results showed great confidence in the state of craft.

A bold new project to enable collaboration between key craftspersons in the Country Women's Association and contemporary artists, ensuring the survival of local craft knowledge

Young melbourne ceramicist sends greetings from an overseases residency.

Does glass more than a footnote to art history? This argument for glass art as a heir to landscape painting features the work of Maureen Williams.

3 Deep Publishing explore the book as a conceptual work.

Take a tour of the 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial

Examines craft a source available for contemplation; "an indispensable mediator for, and an embodied element in, the production of both science and visual art".

An Australian textile artist explores new territory

Considers the role of the artisan in a networked economy

Chilean silversmith talks about the bare bones of making jewellery

The use of modest materials by Australian makers reflects a Danish scepticism towards consumer dream machines

Peter Timms looks at the relationship between ceramics and the cooking and eating of food, by comparing Japanese customs with those of the West.

The keynote address for a conference looking at the role of material arts in contemporary society

An essay on the extraordinary way craft can 'refashion' other media as happens in the new media phenomenon of 'remediation'

A breif stay in a powerful place transforms the practice of a young textile designer

Traces of her ancestor lead a ceramicist to explore the relationship forged beteen old and new cultures in Australia

The Turner Prize turns to craft

Why the old school tie isn't so old school any more

A mentorship with shoemakers begins a new journey for a Melbourne jeweller

An exploration of felt and feeling

Fashion designer Akira Isagawa finds creativity and success in the space between cultures

An expatriate textile artist shifts her practice from scarves to sculpture, finding inspiration in geometry and nature

Report on a Welsh festival that 'gets to know' the maker.

Ceramics tells the story of a lost people

While the plinth seems banished from the new galleries in Melbourne's Federation Square, the object returns in surprising ways.

Ramona Barry find new ceramic work filled with colours of nature

A major new development for crafts opens in south England

Emily Howes combines beach sand with clay in Beach Carillon, her honours project at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts

East Timorese textile crafts capture the spirit of a newly liberated people.

A textile designer finds a 'rare moment of clarity' in her travels through Kutch

Robin Best's experience working with Pitjantjara artists decorating ceramics

A poet of South African origin reflects on the way craft practitioners mediate between Western and traditional communities in Between You and Me

Melbourne jeweller examines the politics behind the personal stories of craft exchange

An international fungi symposium in Denmark, Western Australia, reveals the secret life of the bush floor

The great potential of collaboration with an indigenous community and the hard realities that sometimes ensue.

Profile on successful Victorian ceramist

Blyth Toll writes about her lifetime project

A theatre production of Bayeux tapestry explore contemporary medievalism and the dramatic device of weaving

A natural material offers the south an alternative to elephant tusks.

Muslim women wearing scarves should be respected as a personal choice just the same as other Western fashions

Sherry Knipe trawls objects in a glamorous fabric.

Melbourne writer speaks of a collaboration with Scottish metasmith and the Woiworung practice of Tandurrum

A Melbourne weaver takes inspiration from photography

Who made the bean bag? While designs are often stolen, skills and understanding of materials rests with the maker

Ramona Lumsden finds a Melbourne artist who shares her love of horizons with a circle of fellow ceramists

How the web promises to help artists and craftspersons enjoy the fruits of the region while staying in touch

Singaporean ceramist gives form to emotions in clay

Canadian jeweller Paul W. Leathers talks about his new work that explores the relationship between viewer, viewed and viewpoint.

Prominent New Zealand ceramist adapts Pueblo traditions to Maori culture

Fourteen tears and a fish in glass

The need to reform how craft is taught in Australian tertiary institutions

West Australian textile artist tells story of collaboration with Kutch textile printers, and how she taught them to make 'badly'.

The birth of the World Crafts Council and the confrontation between ethnography and modernism

French jeweller Christophe Burger talks about a ring he made for 'unnameable', the Corpus show in Colmar, France

Dora Stockhausen and Marcus Foley explore the nature of relationships in metalware

Launceston ceramist creates an archeology of the machine age

A Dutch jeweller makes work that reflects on immigrant New Zealand identity

A ceramist talks about how useful his website has been.

A project for tagging citizens with charged labels takes jewellery to the streets of Melbourne

An illustrated account of the legendary West Australian bush camp for textile artists

West Australian ceramist gives body to Australian centre

Two students from Enmore Design Centre stretch metal into functional forms

A paper presented to the Craft in the 21st Century conference in Edinburgh outlines the world dialectic in craft and the role of the south.

Indonesian exhibition on fibre artist with participants from south-east Asia, USA, Netherlands and Australia

Writers were asked to complete the sentence, 'The digital without the material is like...''

Opening speech for an exhibition of work by India Flint and Stephanie Radock

There is in contemporary craft the quest for a new vernacular, which reflects the condition of being a non-indigenous Australian.

A unique craft event brings together Aboriginal and non-indigenous Australia, under the common beanie. But there are problems…

A Melbourne glass artist writers about the establishment of a fused glass studio in the Warlayirti Artists Community, Balgo Hills, Western Australia

A Melbourne sonnet-writer proposes a radical encounter between mind and body.

The late David Potter's ceramics reveal a complex mind and sensitive hand.

A conference at Wollongong university looks at the links between text and textile crafts in the colonial experience.

A forum in response to the closure of ceramics at the VCA considered the road ahead.

Sue Green looks at the upsurge of interest in knitting by aritsts, celebrities and those seeking refuge from September 11.

Damon moon defends pottery against its inappropriate housing in ceramics and sculpture.

A moving tribute to a singular presence in the ceramic community.

Stephen Gevers talks about his way of making sculptures in felt

'Much as the rug is a transportable item, KT transports her background in weave, into the digital environment.'

A funding organisation is eager to assist emerging craft practitioners.

Perched as she is, between parents, who were Holocaust survivors and her own sons, Ede Horton has done the hard work of grappling with the meaning of her history her present and that of her sons.

"We can only interpret based on personal experience and that experience is so subjective, so momentary, that strong photographs often trigger strong emotions that transcend the mere document."

"Investigative, probing, exploratory surgery, experiment and adventure combined — the DIY medical aspects now all the more useful given the recent Aussie medical insurance collapse"

"A flotilla of boat people dolls, with wide-eyes and lashes. A series of commemorative pouring pots, these scapeboats and spines."

"Finely controlled lighting is essential in portraying the reflective, transmissive and textural qualities of the work."

Sandy Saxon talks about her installation of glasses shown in an exhibition of works reflecting Jewish stories.

Curator of current touring exhibition writes about the evolution of a new paradigm linking popular and elite craft practice

Ex-editor of New Zealand 'Craft' argues that craft needs to break with the 'grass roots' and pursue its ideals uncompromised by popularism

'Each of Timor's thirteen districts is culturally and linguistically unique with their own techniques, symbols, motifs and weaving styles.'

"The parents continue making pottery with the help of daughters and daughter-in- laws, but in this community who will be the next generation of throwers?"

"While even the poor can afford a car these days, they must now drive their fragile sedans in a sea of predatory four wheel drives."

A profile on the thoughtful German metalsmith who influenced Otto Kunzli and Henrick Forster

Canadian jeweller Paul W. Leathers talks about his new work of domestic fossils

Melbourne textile artist talks about Korean re-use of fabric scraps and its relation to Australia folk traditions

Guy Parmenter explains how his magnet bowl works

Principal jeweller for Lord of the Rings talks about designing for the big screen