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NY 12 919 craft horizons July/August 1969 Vol. XXIX No. 4 4 The Craftsman's World 5 Letters 6 Books 7 Our Contributors 8 Young Americans 1969. by Azalea Thorpe New 16 Forms for Dance: An interview with Doris Chase by Jean Batie 20 A Building Watcher by John Bernard Myers 30 Tapestry by Mona Hessing 34 Anthony Hepburn: A young British potter _ by Tony Birks 37 The Materials of Art Versus the Art of Materials by Herb Aach 39 Exhibitions 53 Calendar 54 Where to Show The Coven Ceramic mask, 5Vi" high, excavated at Tlatilco, a burfal ground of the first millennium B.C., located on the outskirts of modern Mexico City. Date is conjectured to be seventh century B.C. The mask is on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in the show entitled "Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art" (May 10-August 17). A discussion of the show will be featured In the September/October CRAFT HORIZONS. Edttorin-Chief — Rose Slivka Managing Editor -Patricia Dandlgnac Editorial Assistants Wylie Cumbie Edith Dugmore Advertising Department Yoiandé Baven Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale William Lescaze Leo Uonni Alleen O. Webb Ceramics _____—Daniel Rhodes Metal —Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles Lili Blumenau Wood Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding Polly Lada-Mocarskl Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1969 by the American Craftsmen's Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.T. 10019. Telephone: Circle 6-6840. Alleen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; Kenneth Chorley, VIce-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Execu- tive Vice-President; May E. Witter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fa I la rl no, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angelí, Alfred Auerbach, John L. Barlnger, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kllham, Jr, Jack Lenor Larsen, Sarah Tomerlln Lee, De Witt Peterkln, Jr. William Snalth, Frank Stanton, W. Osbom Webb. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada-Mocar- skl, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Count», Trade Guemnonprez, Kenneth Shores, Peter Wendland, Jamee Woz- nlak. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $2. For change of address, give old address as well as new, with zip code number; allow rix weeks for change to become effective. Ad- dress unsolicited material to the EdttoNn-dtlef, CRAFT HORIZONS, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Material will be handled with care but the magazine assumes no responsibility for iL Manuscripts 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 Universel Micro- films, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. Craftsman's World Art Carnival at The Harlem School of the Arts Here and There Created and sponsored by New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Ireland's finance minister, Charles Haughey, has made a legislative Children's Art Carnival at The Harlem School of the Arts, 641 St. proposal which, if passed, may see the home of the leprechaun Nicholas Avenue, New York, began classes this spring. The Car- inundated with a host of new residents—all artists. If voters return nival offers a studio-workshop where an anticipated 9,000 children to Dail (Parliament) the Fianna Fail party, Haughey plans to intro- a year, between the ages of 4 and 12, will paint, make collages and duce a bill that will ". create a sympathetic environment in constructions, model in clay, and be exposed to such play objects which the arts can flourish . ." by providing in a finance bill as a color organ and magnetic board especially designed to intro- that ". painters, sculptors, writers, and composers living and duce children to the elements of art Originated by Victor D'Amico, working in Ireland will be free of tax on all earnings from work director of the Museum's department of education, the staff in- of cultural merit..."... Designer Tom Isbell was commissioned cludes three teachers and four aides. Executive director, Betty Blay- by Cunard Lines to make two murals, four cylindrical paintings, ton Taylor, who organized art projects for children and teenagers and twenty banners to hang in the newly redecorated pier to under the Haryou Program (1964-66), plans to arrange field trips for welcome the arrival in New York, on May 7, of the Queen the children to visit other parts of the city, as well as encourage the Elizabeth II. The banners, all hard-edge geometric designs on felt active participation of parents in the program. Housed in a former in a brilliant crash of colors—yellows, pinks, reds, oranges, magen- garage owned by The Harlem School, the Children's Art Carnival tas, greens, blues—flared four feet by five feet in two opposing was remodeled by the Museum this past winter. Initially set up to rows ... ACC trustees Jack Lenor Larsen and Dorothy Liebes have operate for three years, contributions have come from individuals recently been in the news—Larsen for his new collection of and foundations, with additional funds being sought so that the metallic fabrics, entitled "Reflection Forms and Nature," and Carnival, as an effective service to the community, can continue Dorothy Liebes for receiving the National Home Fashion League's its operations beyond that time. Trailblazer Award for outstanding achievement in the home fash- ion industry . The Jugtown Pottery at Seagrove and the South- Publications ern Highland Handicraft Guild in Asheville were among four organizations receiving grants from The North Carolina Arts Coun- With its spring 1969 issue, Handweaver & Craftsman entered its cil. The Jugtown Pottery received $2,500 to aid Nancy Sweezy, its twentieth year. Begun after an extensive survey of handweavers in present owner, in restoring the buildings and re-establishing pro- the U.S. proved a need for a publication to serve these craftsmen duction at the Pottery, which was in legal limbo for several years, with a wide range of interests, the magazine offers information after the deaths of its founders, the Jacques Busbees. The Guild on textile design and techniques, background material, marketing received $1,910 to finance a traveling exhibit of native crafts. conditions, schedules of exhibitions and competitions, courses in Scheduled to be ready by the fall, organizations interested in the weaving, book reviews, as well as important developments in exhibition may contact the Guild at P.O. Box 9145, Asheville, handweaving in the U.S. and abroad. CRAFT HORIZONS extends North Carolina 28805 ... In the April newsletter of The North congratulations to Mary Alice Smith, editor of Handweaver & Carolina Arts Council, Ben Owen, who was the Jugtown potter Craftsman since its first publication, for making it the successful from 1923-1959, and now operates his own shop in Seagrove, magazine that it is today ... The Toledo Museum of Art singled out stamping his ware "Ben Owen, Master Potter," wrote "Reflections its spring Museum News to feature "Glass of the 20th Century" of a Potter," in which he discussed his work and described his from its collection. Included in the twenty-two page publication, relationship with the originators of Jugtown ware . With the with a photograph and biographical statement, are Emile Gallé, Jean idea that by joining together it will be possible to strengthen the Sala, Francois Décorchemont, Erwin Eisch, Harvey Littleton, Fred- contemporary jewelry field through conferences and exhibitions erick Carder, Rene Lalique, Paolo Venini, and Dominick Labino, of a professional nature, seventeen gold- and silversmiths met among others.