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Crafty Ohio

Crafty Ohio. American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life Webinar #2 | July 21 st , 2011. Art and Craft: The Great Debate. Art (Traditionally). Craft (Traditionally). Who : Professional artisans (men), homeworkers and hobbyists (women)

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Crafty Ohio

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  1. Crafty Ohio American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life Webinar #2 | July 21st, 2011

  2. Art and Craft: The Great Debate Art (Traditionally) Craft (Traditionally) Who: Professional artisans (men), homeworkers and hobbyists (women) What: Sewing, knitting, wood and metal working, pottery, glass When: (insert complicated answer) Why: Employment, hobby, family, ceremony Where: Working class, women, and non-white of the western world, non-westernized countries How: Apprenticeship, “home schooling” • Who: White, educated, westernized men • What: Painting, drawing, fine art printing, sculpture, photography* • When: (insert complicated answer) • Why: Aesthetic enjoyment, honoring a patron, religious expression, intellectual exploration • Where: “Western” World • How: Patronage, some degree of independent wealth, formal education

  3. Art and Craft Today Purpose Material Skill Level Form and Function Dialogue Gender VijaCelmins, Ocean, 2003 Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach 2, 1990

  4. Analyzing Craft • Purpose • Material • Skill Level • Form and Function • Dialogue • Gender Wholecloth Quilt, ca. 1825-1875 - The history of this quilt is unknown. The comforter is made of hand-woven red, blue, and green striped wool fabric. The front and the back are of the same fabric. It is tied with cream thread. The size is 50 x 71 in.

  5. Analyzing Craft • Purpose • Material • Skill Level • Form and Function • Dialogue • Gender Hadley Abolitionist Quilt, 1842 - This 72" by 72“ quilt was made by Quaker women of Clinton Co., Ohio and Wayne Co., Indiana. These women had been disowned by mainstream Quaker meetings due to their anti-slavery activities. The quilters were all members of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends, which was comprised of 12 monthly meetings in Indiana and Ohio. Rebecca Harvey Hadley of Clinton Co., who along with her daughters signed the quilt, was related to several of the Indiana signers.

  6. Analyzing Craft • Purpose • Material • Skill Level • Form and Function • Dialogue • Gender Lois K. Ide World Peace Quilt, 1987 - Perhaps Ide’s best-known piece; UNICEF used this quilt for a greeting card in 1993. The pieced background of the quilt is based on a traditional Around the World pattern. Peace, World Peace, Peace on Earth, May Peace Prevail on Earth, and There will be World Peace are embroidered in 38 different languages. The all-cotton quilt measures 65 x 66 in. Ide was a native Ohioan who began sewing at four. She learned appliqué and patchwork from her mother and embroidery from her aunt. After years of mastering her craft, she became a master quilter and an internationally known teacher.

  7. Susan Noakes McCord, Grandmother’s Fan Quilt, c. 1900 Quilts Hannah and Em Greenlee, Crazy Quilt, 1896 Amish quilts from the Heritage Center, Lancaster Co. PA

  8. Maria Montoya and Julian Martinez, Jar, c.1939 Louisa Keyser, Beacon Lights, 1904-05 Carl Toolak, baleen basket, 1940 Pottery and Baskets Anasazi Pottery, c. 1100 Attr. Caesar Johnson, Gullah rice fanner basket, c. 1960 Sikyatki, polychrome bowl, c.1350-1700

  9. Silver Gene Theobald, Diament Teapot, 1928 Thomas William Brown, Tea Service, c. 1840-50 Paul Revere Jr., Teapot, 1796

  10. Furniture and Decor James McNeil Whistler, The Peacock Room, 1876-77

  11. Creating and Studying Craft • Social • Economic • Geographic

  12. Ohio CraftPre-Industrial Revolution

  13. Pottery What materials do you need to produce pottery? What challenges do you face in producing and transporting pottery?

  14. Pottery: Geology

  15. Pottery: Minerals

  16. Pottery: Rivers & Canals

  17. Pottery: Industry

  18. Industrial Revolution • To what degree does the Industrial Revolution change these patterns? • What about pottery production today? Mass produced? Artisan?

  19. Glass • What materials do you need to produce glass? • What challenges do you face in producing and transporting glass?

  20. Glass: Geology

  21. Glass: Minerals

  22. Glass: Rivers and Canals

  23. Glass

  24. Industrial Revolution • To what degree does the Industrial Revolution change these patterns? • What about glass production today? Mass produced? Artisan?

  25. Furniture, Fiber, and Fabric • Where are these crafts produced prior to the Industrial Revolution? • Where are these crafts produced during and after the Industrial Revolution? • What about today? Mass produced? Artisan? • Why do you think these crafts are different from glass and pottery?

  26. Essential Information • Standards • Map Applications • Other Ohio Industries (soap, pork, oil, coal, steel, corn, soy) • Mapping Ohio Artists • Ohio Art Institutions and Ohio Industries • Additional Resources • Ohio As America

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