Craft Horizons JULY/AUGUST 1968 a SHOPPING CENTER Ahme for JEWELRY CRAFTSMEN at Your Fingertips! KILNS & CERAMIC EQUIPMENT GAS KILNS from 2 Cu
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Box 1298 EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. 90245 Dallas, Texas 75221 San Antonio, Texas 78206 AREA CODE (213) 322-2430 772-2557 772-2558 horizons July/August 1968 Vol. XXVIII No. 4 4 The Craftsman's World 5 Letters, Our Contributors 6 Countercues 7 Editorial 8 The Craft of the Object: U.S.A. 14 International Glossary of Craft Terms 16 The Object of Craft: Africa 23 International Color Portfolio of Crafts 27 Pottery in New Guinea by Margaret Tuckson 32 Exhibitions 45 Calendar 46 Where to Show The cover: Detail of decoration on a wall surrounding a Venda home in the Soutpansberg area of South Africa's Northern Transvaal. Women of the village use clays of natural color for decoration. "The Object of Craft: Africa," a photographic essay on modern African crafts, begins on page 16. Photograph by Sam Haskins. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor Patricia Dandignac Associate Editor ; Bill Weeden Editorial Assistant Edith Dugmore Advertising Department Adele Zawadzky Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale William Lescaze Leo Lionni Aileen 0. Webb Ceramics _Daniel Rhodes Metal Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles Lili Blumenau Wood Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding. Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1968 by the American Craftsmen's Council, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Telephone: PLaza 3-7425. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; Kenneth Chorley, Vice-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Direc- tor; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assist- ant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Alfred Auerbach, John L. Baringer, Mrs. Lewis G. Carpenter, Mrs. H. Lansing Clute, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, De Witt Peterkin, Jr., William Snaith, Frank Stanton. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada- Mocarski, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Counts, Trude Guermonprez, Kenneth Shores, Peter Wedland, James Wozniak. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $2. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. The complete content of each issue of CRAFT HORIZONS is indexed in the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, available in public libraries. Book re- views published in CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm edition is available from Universal Microfilms, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Craftsman's World Crafts: Can They Help Appalachia? JULY 15-19 Asheville, N. C. A new project to study methods for "Encouraging and Preserving American Handcrafts" will explore the feasibility of relieving eco- For folder write: nomically depressed areas, like Appalachia, by helping the native CRAFTSMAN'S FAIR craftsmen revive and revitalize the traditional designs for useful Box 9145 products and by helping to organize markets for those products. Asheville, N. C. 28805 The project, headed by the American Federation of Arts, New York, The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild is to be funded with a Federal grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, with supplementary financing from the CRAFTSMAN'S FAIR J.M. Kaplan Fund. It will benefit from the cooperation of profes- OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS sional designers who will involve themselves with certain fields. Among them are Olav Hammarstrom (carpentry and pre-cut cot- tages), William Pahlmann (decorative objects and accessories), Ed- ward Wormley (furniture), Marianne Strengell (textiles), and Doris and William Justema (design instruction). According to the AFA, S S1LVERSMITH1H certain steps will have to be taken first, since the proposal "faces some delicate problems." These steps include studying the possi- Catalog #68. Price $1.00 deductible from /S1 •>» first order of $5.00 or more - sent without OUR bility of the following: gaining some measure of acceptance in S charge to requests submitted on School or Appalachian communities and with local work groups who might be . organization letterhead. SHOWROOM activated; organizing markets for the craft objects once they are produced; making similar studies in some selected communities of 5 Mail Orders and Correspondence u A C yj 215 Park Avenue • Hicksville, N. Y. 11801 HAo American Indians and Eskimos. The term "handcrafts" as used by w> Phone: (516) 433-1660 and (212) 895-0686 the project, by the way, includes articles "produced in some quan- A NFW tity by hand in the home or under some cottage industry plan or New York Showroom M mi-ww 22 West 48 Street • New York, N. Y. 10036 A NRVNCCC in a handcraft production center employing a number of workers." „ Phone:(212) 895-0686 AUUKtOO The study is not concerned with the artist-craftsman who makes only one-of-a-kind works and has no skills applicable to quantity production—even on a limited basis. The project, to be directed by Tools / Findings ALLCRAFT William Katzenbach, coordinator of the AFA's decorative arts exhi- TOOL & SUPPLY COMPANY, INC. bition program, is based on a study prepared by Charles Counts for 6LJ3 Stones / Metals the Economic Development Administration in 1966. A NEW BOOK AND A SPECIAL OFFER... SELLING YOUR CRAFTS For Your Datebook by Norbert N. 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