About this ebook
The symposium was a groundbreaking event, a first in Canada, offering to the crafts community a new depth of consideration. The book, too, is a Canadian first, and it will allow a dialogue about the academic side of the craft movement to continue.
Each of the book's three sections, History, Theory and Critical Writing, contains a keynote paper and essays by experts in each field, including Mark Kingwell writing 'On Style,' Blake Gopnik on 'Reviewing Craft Exhibitions for the Art Pages,' and Robin Metcalfe addressing 'Teacup Readings: Contextualizing Craft in the Art Gallery.'
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About the author
Jean Johnson was the Coordinator of the Craft Studio from 1979 to 1991, when she became the Crafts Project Manager, a position she still holds. She has been celebrated by the Ontario Crafts Council, the Ontario College of Art and Design and NSCAD and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1993 for her work with the Canadian crafts community.
