Art vs. Craft: this is the debate that never ends (it just goes on and on my friends)
If you’d like some interesting reading on it, these finds stem from the thread on Orchid, Jeweler$ versus Painter$$$ in which Pat Pruitt recommends the podcast, “How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement,” by Garth Clark, ceramics expert:
http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/programs_lecture.php
which lead me to these:
http://wdbannard.org/?mode=by&id=69 Craft and Art Envy
http://www.brucemetcalf.com/blog The Craft Gadfly, the blog of Bruce Metcalf
Here’s a transcript of a speech given by Bruce at SNAG 2008, which got some vigorous blogosphere response (terribly interesting, wish I could find that blog again).*
Bruce’s speech on the Indie Crafts movement is quite interesting, given his understanding of the history of the various crafts movements. http://www.brucemetcalf.com/pages/essays/diy_websites_energy.html
* Found it: http://www.imogene.org/blog/2008/03/09/confessions
Very interesting! I’d missed the MCC’s podcast series, so I really appreciate your tipping me to that.