You would think that someone had written about the Craft revival of the 1970s, but when I search for this topic, only one article comes up, by Andrea Peach called Crafting Revivals? An investigation into the craft revival of the 1970s: can contemporary comparisons be drawn? She has made it available to everyone at this site: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/2695 It is a very short article and I encourage everyone to read it. She writes: Craft in Britain flourished during the 1970s largely due to the activities of the Crafts Advisory Committee (CAC) now the Crafts Council, which was established in 1970. The CAC was a state backed, central organization charged specifically with shaping a new identity for Britainâs crafts. Its remit included raising the professional status of crafts, and promoting the craftsman as âartistââ¦. The CAC facilitated and nurtured craft through the allocation of grants and loans, the commissioning and patronage of work, the organization of exhibitions, publications and publicity, as well as the running of conservation projects and training. It was responsible for the creation of Crafts magazine in 1973, which is still in circulation. Crafts was visually exciting in comparison to other art magazines of the time, containing large colour photographs and profiles of makers involved with âthe new craftsâ.
No one has mentioned the Crafts Advisory Committee, and yet so many of our descriptions of how we got started include going to some class that someone had organized. Was it the Crafts Advisory Committee that was funding these? I am not sure how this applies to what was happening in the US, although clearly we benefited from a ripple effect. Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
