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The American Craft Council (ACC) is a national non-profit organization that champions craft based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Founded in 1943 by Aileen Osborn Webb, the council hosts national craft shows and conferences, [1] publishes a quarterly magazine called American Craft [2] and a quarterly journal called American Craft Inquiry, [3] maintains an extensive awards program, [4] and is home to ...
The American Made Show, (formerly known as the Buyers Market of American Craft) was the nation’s largest wholesale trade show, providing US and Canadian professional studio artists a venue to build relationships with qualified retailers and wholesale craft buyers. Founded by Wendy Rosen, the show featured approximately 1,500 artists ...
The Mart opened in 1957, as Atlanta Market Center (AMC), and hosts more than a dozen trade shows every year including The Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market, Atlanta Apparel and Fall Design Week. Trade show exhibitors rent permanent showrooms as well as temporary booths during trade shows. Some permanent showrooms are open ...
Handcrafted America is an American TV series, which is broadcast on INSP. It is hosted by Jill Wagner, who travels across the United States visiting people with specialist crafts. Each episode, Wagner visits three different artists to discuss and study their craft. The show first aired in 2015 and has a total of 39 episodes across three seasons.
Michelle Holzapfel (born Michelle Chasse on December 9, 1951) is an American woodturner and a participant in the American Craft movement. She has five decades of experience turning and carving native hardwoods in Marlboro, Vermont, where she has lived her adult life. Holzapfel fits the definitions of both Studio artist and Material movement artist.
The annual regional outdoor show and sale features more than 120 local artists and craftsmen.
The American studio craft movement is a successor to earlier European craft movements. Modern studio crafts developed as a reaction to modernity and, particularly, the Industrial Revolution . During the nineteenth century, Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle and English social critic John Ruskin warned of the extinction of handicrafts in Europe .
The Atlanta Dogwood Festival is an arts and crafts festival held each spring at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia, established in 1933. Originally held for nine days across two weekends and the weekdays between, it is now held only one weekend during early April, when the native flowering dogwood trees are in bloom. The festival attracts ...