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(213) 246-8385 116 West 29th Street/New York, N.Y. 10001/212 868-38801 craft horizons of the American Crafts Council August 1974 Vol. XXXIV No. 4 6 The Craftsman's World 8 Books 11 Letters 13 Our Contributors 14 El Dorado 16 The Golden Gods of Colombia by Nina de Friedemann 18 Fausto Melotti by Gabriella Drudi 24 The Bookmaking of Virginia and Leonard Woolf by Susan Edmiston 26 The Tradition of Narrative Tapestry by June Wayne 30 The Textile Art of the Kimono by G.A. Ruda 32 Exhibitions 51 Calendar 53 Where to Show The Cover: "Firebrick Sculpture—Pasadena," 198" square x 84" high, by John Mason (1974), collection of the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Californ ia. Our coverage of Mason's retrospective exhibition at the Pasa- dena Museum is on page 32. Photograph by Frank Thomas. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor Patricia Dandignac Assistant Editor Edith Dugmore Art Director Sydney Butchkes Advertising Department Anita Chmiel Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale Leo Lionni Aileen O. Webb Ceramics Daniel Rhodes Metal Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles Uli Blumenau Wood Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding. Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1974 by the American Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Telephone: 212-977-8989. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; John L. Baringer, Vice-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Presi- dent; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Dr. Mark Ellingson, Dr. Richard Gonzalez, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Samuel C. Johnson, Jack Lenor Larsen, Sarah Tomerlin Lee, Vera Neumann, DeWitt Peterkin, Jr., Barbara Rockefeller, Sam Scherr, Carol Sinton, Dr. Frank Stanton, W. Osborn Webb. Honorary trustees are: Alfred Auerbach, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: Bill Alexander, Herbert Cohen, James Dugdale, Arline Fisch, Mary Nyburg, Frances Senska. Membership rates: $12.50 per year and higher, includes subscrip- tion to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $3. Address unsolicited material to the Editor-in-Chief, CRAFT HORIZONS, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Material will be handled with care, but the magazine assumes no responsibility for it. Manu- scripts will be returned only if accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelope. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing office. 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 reviews published in CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm edition is available from University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. For change of address, give old address as well as new with zip code number; allow six weeks for change to become effective. Address all subscription corres- pondence to Anita Chmiel, Membership Manager, American Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. The Craftsman's World Walker Phillips; fabric dyeing with Yoshiko NEW SHOPS AND "QUALITY OF LIFE" Kogo; dollmaking with Kingsbury; stained SURVEY POINTS TO glass with Erik Erikson; patchwork, ap- GALLERIES pliqué, smocking, quilting, and stuffing GROWING CRAFT BOOM with Toni Scott; needlepoint, embroidery, In the misty Pocono Mountains, silversmith and fabric collage with Shirley Silbert; sell- Thomas Mann (no relation to the German One of every five Americans over the age of ing crafts with Leta Clark; sculpture with writer) has opened a mecca that craftspeople 15 practices a craft. One out of six paints, and public alike are invited to visit. His Stuart Frummer and Manolo Pascual; ce- draws, or sculpts, according to a recent na- Mountain Gallery (35 Washington Street, ramics with Donald Mavros; and silk screen tional survey conducted by the National Re- East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania 18301) wel- with Gerald Marks ... Donna Nicholas, as- search Center for the Arts, Inc., an affiliate comes fellow travelers in the area looking sociate professor of art at Edinboro State of Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. The for an outlet for their works ... February College, Pennsylvania, has been appointed opinion sampling, which consisted of more saw the opening of the Helen Drutt Gallery visiting associate professor of ceramics for than 3,000 90-minute interviews, also re- (1625 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- the coming year at Scripps College, Clare- vealed that 89 percent of the people polled vania 19102). It features works in fiber by mont, California ... The League of New feel that the arts are important to the "qual- Yvonne Babrowicz, Sigrid Meier, Dawne Hampshire Craftsmen has instituted a new ity of life in the community," and that 64 Polis and Louise Todd; in clay by Mark education program and appointed jeweler percent feel this strongly enough to be will- Burns, Anne Currier, William Daley, Richard Erling Heistad to head it. Heistad, direc- ing to pay $5 more annual tax if it were to DeVore, David Gilhooly, Erik Gronborg, tor of the Hinckley School of Crafts in go to the arts. Even among those with annual Wayne Higby, Howard Kottler, Joyce Moty, Maine until 1973, will organize and adminis- incomes under $5,000, 50 percent would Jacqueline Rice, Rudi Staffel, Lizbeth Stew- pay this price. (Were this to happen in actu- ter workshops for all levels of craft skills, art, Paula and Robert Winokur, and Petras ality, the current federal arts appropriation including seminars for advanced crafts- Vaskys; in metal by Louise Atlas, Amy of $112 million would be quadrupled.) men, summer exploratory programs for Buckingham, Toni Goessler-Snyder, Tony high-school-age students, and the develop- Other findings included: 65 percent do Lent, Marci Lewis, Stanley Lechtzin, Eleanor ment of a school for studio craftsmen. The not believe one can get sufficient culture Moty, Olaf Skoogfors, J. Fred Woell, and League also granted a scholarship to one of and entertainment from TV, radio, and rec- the Pencil Brothers (Ken Cory and Les ords alone; 71 percent have attended mu- its own teachers, Gaale Klein, to attend a Lepere) ... Potter Marvin Bjurlin and weaver seums, or concert, theater, or dance perfor- three-year-credit course for advanced weav- Carol Schwartzott were featured in the mances during the past year; 67 percent ers, "Weaving Education," at Keene State opening exhibit of the new Todorof Ameri- believe that museums are doing imaginative College, New Hampshire. can Craftsmen Galleries (311 Bryant Street, things that make them interesting places to Buffalo, New York 14222) which got under- visit; 75 percent disagree that "museums are way this May ... Craft Routes (Route 83, stuffy, depressing places"; 62 percent be- GRANTS AND AWARDS Talcottville, Connecticut 06080), an offshoot lieve that there is so much new talent in the of a gallery by the same name in Ellington, visual arts that one should go to museums Currently accepting applications for study Connecticut, was opened this spring by and shows often; 31 percent have taken art grants in the arts: Anna Bonk and Harriet Kaufman, featuring appreciation courses; 65 percent do not The Institute of International Education jewelry by Cathleen McLain, macramé and think that "people who try to save old and will award approximately 570 Fulbright fiber art by Mickey Sequenzia, chimes by Bill historic buildings are wasting their time and awards to 50 countries for graduate study Cook, stained glass by Jerry Alexander, and money"; and 89 percent feel that every city or research abroad and for professional pottery by Thomas Shafer, Betsy Tanzer, and should have an effective and impartial plan- training in the creative and performing arts Robert Parrott.