Collectible Ceramics Designed and Crafted in America Since 1952
Contrasting cultural attitudes and receptivity between India and Maine I have an unexpected project to work on this week and I have nothing to lose except my time and energy, and Continue Reading →
Getting the history of Midcentury Design right! Here’s my chance! Rare and only known example of this slip cast form in original ebony-brown glaze, designed and handcrafted by Weston Neil Andersen Continue Reading →
The grassroots fertilizes the mainstream but needs its independence! I recovered boxes from storage filled with the earliest midcentury examples of my parent’s work from the forties and fifties. It Continue Reading →
Centralization vs Decentralization in the Bronze Age In 2004 anthropologist Edward M. Schortman and Patricia Urban published Modeling the Roles of Craft Production in Ancient Political Economies, a research paper discussing trends Continue Reading →
The outgrowth of a lifelong commitment to living a creative work-centered life. Makers have often been at the forefront of revolutions and movements. Ever since the Soviet Revolution, Russia Continue Reading →
I saw a message on my LinkedIn page the other day that said eleven people had searched my profile last week. I clicked on the message. It said all eleven Continue Reading →
Placing the contemporary in the long view of history Jeremy Beck Unsplash I published Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence on Medium where I was criticized for including “Andersen Design” in the Continue Reading →
The Power and the Beauty of the Working Class The Present State of the Of the Working Entrepreneurial Class Once there was a popular phrase for a conceptual ideal. It Continue Reading →
Substack is evolving as the medium where the writer has the freedom to evolve new forms as Medium shows indications of becoming more regulated. Shubham Dhage Unsplash I published a Continue Reading →
Photo by Stephanie Klepacki / Unsplash In the Portland, Maine industrial opportunity zone, a homeless shelter is planned as a residence in a business but businesses in residence Continue Reading →