Table of Contents

Craft and the Semiotics of Pattern: A Feminist Perspective; Lisa Samphire: Bending the Bullseye; Ancient Affections: Paul Mathieu's Making China in China; Flowers and Leaves: Constructing Nature; Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft & Free Time; The Art of Camouflage, A Female Touch: Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney; Stardale: A Success Story; Thinking Textile; How to Knit an Academic Paper; Rules of Grammar or Childish Babble?: Interpreting Ornament and Meaning in the Context of Modernity; Immaterial beauty; But is it (ceramic) Art? Ceramics and the "Problem" with Jean-Pierre Larocque's Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art; Louise Perrone's Museum; Sara Washbush: The Parting Glass; Vancouver Sculpture: Craft Concepts; John Macnab: Between Centres; Sarah Link's Drift; Christina Mayr: Focus on the Vessel; How Long is a Piece of String?

About the Author

Co-editors Paula Gustafson, Nisse Gustafson and Amy Gogarty are also contributors to this third volume. Paula Gustafson, who passed away in July 2006, was the editor of the previous two volumes of Craft Perception and Practice and was editor of Canada's award-winning magazine Artichoke: Writing about the Visual Arts. A life-long craft advocate and activist, she received the first Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts award for critical writing about contemporary Canadian crafts. Her daughter, Nisse Gustafson, is a writer, editor and professional fundraiser. She has previously contributed to Artichoke magazine as both a writer and editorial assistant. Amy Gogarty is an artist, writer, and educator who recently relocated to Vancouver after teaching for sixteen years at ACAD in Calgary. She recently co-edited the book Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice, forthcoming from Ronsdale Press.