Little Journeys

Working Up My Grief: What Does “Arts & Crafts” Do For Us In Times of Loss?

by Kate Nixon   "Work Your Grief Up Into Art and It Is Gone." The very first page of Arts & Crafts Ideals: Wisdom from the Arts & Crafts Movement in America  - one of my first Arts and Crafts books - is a reminder from The…

A Shopmark for the Holidays

By Bruce Johnson   Editorial note: This article has been re-published. Original date of publication: December 24, 2019.    When I was a high school English teacher back in Illinois, I spent more of my free periods in the…

Found In Translation: An American Arts and Crafts Auction Overseas

by Kate Nixon   Once in a while, I get a tip about an Arts and Crafts auction or event that comes out of left field. While I am certainly enthusiastic about the idea of the American handcrafted being studied overseas, I was pleasantly…

Head, Heart and Hand

Editor's note: this article has been republished. Original date of publication: October 22nd, 2019.   The first business I started after serving for five years in a high school classroom was an antique restoration shop in Iowa City.…

A Devious Start To a Life of Collecting

by Bruce Johnson Editor's note: this article has been republished. Original date of publication: September 12th, 2011.   When I lived in Iowa City and was first introduced to the Arts & Crafts movement, I discovered that the…

Carrying On the Family Name: The Cole Family

by Kate Nixon   The Carolinas have a storied history in local craft including hosting craft schools like the John C. Campbell Folk School, the "pottery paradise" of Seagrove, the oft-exhibited old Edgefield Pottery particularly the…

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