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The American Craft Council (ACC) is a national non-profit organization that champions craft based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Founded in 1943 by Aileen Osborn Webb, the council hosts national craft shows and conferences, [1] publishes a quarterly magazine called American Craft [2] and a quarterly journal called American Craft Inquiry, [3] maintains an extensive awards program, [4] and is home to ...
Aileen Osborn Webb (1892–1979) was an American patron of crafts. [3] [4] [5] She was a founder of the organization now known as the American Craft Council, which gives an annual award named for her. [6] She was considered a "principal supporter" of the American Craft movement during the Great Depression. [1]
American Craft is a periodical magazine that documents crafts, craft artists, and both practical and creative aspects of the field of American craft. [2] [3] Originally founded by Aileen Osborn Webb in 1941 as Craft Horizons, the magazine has been published by the nonprofit American Craft Council under the title American Craft since November 1979.
Pages in category "Fellows of the American Craft Council" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He is considered an important figure within the American studio woodturning movement and in contemporary woodturning in the United States. [1] [2] He was the department head in the woodcraft industry program at Berea College for forty years. [3] Osolnik was elected as an American Craft Council (ACC) honorary fellow in 1994.
Craft Horizons was founded and initially edited by Aileen Osborn Webb, who also founded the organization now known as the American Craft Council. [3] [4] Craft Horizons began as an untitled newsletter in November 1941, [1] sent out to artists who had purchased stock in, and consigned works to, America House. [5]
The School for American Crafts (originally the School for American Craftsmen, SAC) was founded by Aileen Osborn Webb and the American Craftsmen's Council (ACC) in the 1940s. It sought to provide training in traditional crafts and "to develop and raise the standards of the hand arts in the United States." [1] [2] [3]
Maurice Heaton was born in 1900 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to English parents. [2] His father and grandfather were glass artists. [4] In 1914 during World War I, his family moved to New York state, and by 1919 the family settled in Valley Cottage, New York which was a rural area at the time.