We investigate how DF artifacts can function as static intermediary tools, which we term proxies, to support crafting practice.
We discuss how approaches such as ProxyPrint that are designed aware of the medium can create more engaging making tools that embed tacit knowledge, encourage creativity, and engage users in ways that can sustain crafting practice.
Balancing a bucolic family life with a prolific crafting practice, Oksana Pero utilizes felting, sewing, and embroidery processes to create endearing soft sculptures.
All shoes are hand-crafted by Bethlehem's staff of 100 people using Ethiopian craft practices like hand-spun organic cotton and are sold in 55 countries, bringing revenues of over $1 million into the West African nation.
Similarly, several works by contemporary artists here employ stitching, quilting and other craft practices.
Ms. Luongo, a Rhode Island-based artist, is poking fun at those who regard craft practices as devoid of ideas.
Arts subjects emphasize the skilled craft, practices, and standards of excellence involved in creating representations through images, words, sounds, and movement (e.g., sculptures, stories, plays, music, dance, films, or video games).
As an artifact and process, craft practices reveal and reflect on the conditions that bring them into being (Adamson 2013).
This book argues that is was modern craft and not modern art that spearheaded nonhierarchical and participatory experiences, through the experiential properties endemic to craft practices and, in particular, ceramics.
Scholarship on everyday aesthetics includes examination of craft practices, which are often pursued in the home where many women continue to work, and to artistic traditions that do not feature a distinction between "fine art" and "craft," such as the cultural traditions of Asia (Saito 2007; Mandoki 2007; Leddy 2012; Light and Smith 2004).
