Today I went to Craft Show School 101. The tuition was $25 and what an education! The institutional venue? Grace Lutheran Church in Elmwood Park. Yup, it was your Grandma’s Craft Show. Americana. My table was up in their hall-of-fame/library. My reason to do the show was to see what’s making crafters tick. I didn’t [...]

Arts, Opinion WANTED: Crafters Who Can Change the World There’s a revolution going on across America, one stitch at a time. International students from Saudi Arabia, China, Panama and Korea at The Little Bits Workshop created memory boxes to contain their American memories. I just read the book Handmade Nation by Faythe Levine and Courtney [...]

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