Yukari Iwatani Kane
...Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and her work has appeared in a variety of other publications, such as NewYorker.com and the MIT Technology Review. While growing up, Yukari moved between...
Alison Main
Alison Main is a freelance writer, graphic designer, and art director. She has been published in Paleo Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, News of Pelham, JolieTalks.com, and NaturalHealth365.com. She ghostwrites on...
Grace Rubenstein
...in TheAtlantic.com, New York Times, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco’s Bay Citizen, and Parenting and Edutopia magazines. She is the multimedia editor for TED Books and a contributor at...
Charlie Siler
...nuclear power and solar energy, and website, climateshowdown.com, aggregates the latest news on climate change. Charlie is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be reached at charlesjsiler@yahoo.com....
Ruth Alden Wicker
Ruth Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert. She splits her time between managing her internationally recognized website, EcoCult.com, which attracts 150,000 readers a month, and contributing...
Lorraine Sanders
...her writing appearing in a range of publications, including Women’s Wear Daily, FastCompany.com, MensJournal.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Ozy. You can connect with her on Instagram @spiritof608....
Terry Collins
Terry Collins is a longtime journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a front page editor for HuffPost.com and has written and edited for the likes...
Catching Color in Food Waste
...the support I have through online sales. But the most rewarding element of my narrative with craftsmanship is that I feel that I am living my values everyday. Also, don’t...
Shrine and the Art of Resilience
...staying with people he meets, occasionally sleeping on floors. His formula is simple: He shows up with brushes and buckets of paint, and offers his services, free of charge. He’ll...
Donate
...contact Susie McKinnon at susie[at]craftsmanship.net. Online Donate now Check Please make your check payable to “Independent Arts & Media,” with The Craftsmanship Initiative in the memo box and mail to:...
Artisans’ Directory
Welcome to our online Artisans’ Directory The Craftsmanship Initiative (TCI) launched this directory of artisans, makers, schools, guilds, and other craft-related organizations in 2021, as a public service. In that...
A Visit to La Esquina, Mexico’s Folk Art Toy Museum
...– all woven from reeds taken from the banks of Lake Pátzcuaro. La Esquina, Museo del Juguete Popular Mexicano, Coleccion Angélica Tijerina, Nuñez 40, Centro, San Miguel de Allende. www.museolaesquina.org.mx...
Romain Blanquart
...a staff photographer at The Detroit Free Press. He is currently working on The Tyranny of Hope, a long-term essay that explores life at the intersection of hope and hopelessness....
The Art of Lace: A Resource Guide
...available in a free online version, by Samuel L. Goldenberg (1904). Amazon also has an inexpensive Kindle version. The Lace Book by N. Hudson Moore (1904) isn’t oppressively technical, and...
Labor’s Realities
...to spend a lot of my free time just recovering physically,” he told me. “If my wife wants to cook a meal with me or go for a hike, I...
Michael Erard
...other outlets. He is the author of “Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean,” and “Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners.”...
Finding Your Ikigai in Craftsmanship
The Japanese have a term for what we as human beings search for in life and it’s called Ikigai, or “the meaning of life.” Many people struggle to know exactly...
A Sense of Place
As the world re-opens from Covid, some of us will travel in search of specialty, must-taste foods or beverages; others for some rare handmade item, whether it be a fine...
Hitting All the High Notes: Delbert Anderson Trumpets On
...notes that leaves the bumblebee in search of a new route: https://craftsmanship.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Groove-Warrior-Quartet.mp3 Shiprock (Tse Bit’a’i) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet above the high desert plain of the Navajo...
The Future of Craftsmanship
Look at almost anything you own of real quality, and you immediately see its maker’s commitment to beauty, functionality, and longevity. Those values, which in our mind define works of...
Crawford Coates
Crawford Coates, a writer and editor in Ventura, Calif., is the publisher at Calibre Press, a public-safety training company. His most recent article, “A Scoutmaster’s Fall,” appeared in the Summer...
Help Clean the World’s Water
...(WASH) team works in over 100 countries worldwide to improve water and sanitation services, as well as basic hygiene practices. CAWST: CAWST provides technical training and consulting, and acts as...
Co-Op Resources
...technical assistance, research, and partnerships to create a new economic system centered around shared ownership and control. The Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) provides technical assistance, training, and outreach programs...
Tomorrow’s Craftsmen and Craftswomen
...of his older brother, George, who had an accident during his training for the Navy. But Chihuly went on to college at his mother’s urging, and it was at the...
On a Rugged Greek Island, an Herbal Scientist Follows the Path of His Ancestors
...some training, pitched in.) Herbal knowledge seems to have run in Vassalos’s family. His great aunt was as a nurse, and went on to become a healer, using both herbs...
Chef Nephi Craig: Decolonizing Recovery through Native Foodways
...training, teaching therapeutic, practical skills that support people in recovery and promote their personal and professional development. In addition to his work as a chef, Craig is also a Behavioral...
Mea McNeil
...There, she lived in a school for tea ceremony and picked up an enduring meditation practice. She has also spent 12 years writing, crafting, and performing rod and shadow puppet...
Sharon Tilley
...consulting practice, helps a variety of mission-oriented organizations grow and thrive. She is also an avid musician, and can be occasionally found playing saxophone in Marin County jazz venues, or...
The Laws of Thermo-Culinary Dynamics
...Thermal Inertia.”) To test how the inertia plays out in practice, I decided to conduct an experiment (at the suggestion of Harold McGee, the author of “On Food and Cooking:...
Getting Serious about Play: A Resource Guide
...gap, found in The Washington Post (Aug. 2016). Olga Jarrett’s 2013 article, “A Research-Based Case for Recess.“ A 2014 article in The Atlantic on Finland’s practice of offering students frequent...
Fileteado Porteño: Preserving the iconic street art of Buenos Aires
...with what he knows best and leave tattooing to experts like Momenti. For Genovese, “Fileteado porteño is a practice closely linked to design. It has reached new uses without losing...
The Democratization of Craft
...“socially engaged practice.” The school recently took that mission one step further by consciously blending art and architecture—and, in the latter, emphasizing environmentally sound design. Today, Philadelphia continues to promote,...
Can Japan’s Akiya Movement Rebuild Rural Communities?
...herb-style steam baths, a practice that dates to the [13th century] Kamakura era,” she said. “By bringing back this culture, I am hopeful this can start a whole new movement...
Aya Rokeach: Notes from a Young Oboist
...it’s way stronger than the average person’s.” Craftsmanship “What kind of exercises do you do to get your tongue in shape?” Aya: “You have to practice faster articulation: the physical...
The Living Traditions of the Chumash Tribe
...have been virtually lost over the years, worsened by the practice of schoolteachers and others pushing Native American children to abandon their language and customs. But a number of traditions...
Cathy Hay vs. Her Followers
...bar them from writing for other outlets for an extended period of time. When asked about this, Hay said, “It is perfectly common practice across many different sectors to stipulate...
Preservation or Exploitation?
...preserved. The practice demands keen cultural awareness. “Museums,” Duffek points out, “are artificial places, where we’re doing things that were never really done in First Nations communities. Taking down a...
After a Glimpse at Free Trade, Cuba Spirals Downward
When I traveled in Cuba in the summer and fall of 2016 and met the ingenious people I describe in this article, prospects for renewed engagement between the U.S. and...
Alex Boerner
...Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, Merge Records, FADER, and others. Alex grew up in Minnesota and is an avid Minnesota Twins baseball fan. His work can be seen at alexboerner.com....
Michael Cervin
...of Switzerland for Forbes Travel Guides, Wine & Spirits, The Santa Barbara News Press, IntoWine.com, 65 Degrees, Food & Beverage World, and others. Michael’s articles have appeared in Robb Report,...
James Daly
...Forbes ASAP, Editor in Chief at Redherring.com, an Executive Producer at Byliner, Producer of the Reinventors web series “Reinventing Hollywood,” and a new media columnist for both Rolling Stone and...
Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps is professor of Law at the University of Baltimore and the Supreme Court correspondent for Theatlantic.com. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post. His freelance work...
Brian Howe
...Dream: Movements in the US Indie Music Underground. Previous deep dives into how interesting things are made delved into Afrofuturist puppets, hand-lathed records, and virtual reality. For more, visit waxwroth.com....
Shawn Linehan
...her photographs have recently graced two books, “The Culinary Herbal” and “Herbal Apothecary,” both published by Timber Press. You can see more of her work at shawnlinehan.com or at @shawnlinehan...
Ben Marks
Ben Marks was the senior editor of CollectorsWeekly.com for more than a dozen years. In various past lives, he’s been an editor at Sunset (magazine and books), a theater critic...
Phoebe Rubin
...San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Phoebe is currently producing and directing a feature-length documentary about women over 70 who continue to work. She can be reached at phoebe@parisroosevelt.com....
Preston Slaughter
...and English literature), she spent two years teaching English in Thailand while fulfilling her dream of traveling the world with camera in hand. Preston’s work can be seen at prestonslaughterphotography.com....
Shmuel Thaler
...Thought” program. During these trips, he has documented conversations with The Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. You can see more of Thaler’s work at shmuelthaler.com....
An Artisanal Tour of Michoacán — with 18 Towns Devoted to Ancient Crafts
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to find the indigenous artists outside of Pátzcuaro without a guide. We went with Jaime Hernández Balderas, from animecha tours, animechatours@yahoo.com. He is a native...
Pátzcuaro’s Casa de la Real Aduana: the Ultimate Craft Hotel
...you won’t want to miss. (Prices were accurate at the time of publication, but may be subject to change). Casa de la Real Aduana: Ponce de Leon 16, Centro, info@realaduana.com...
