Foreword
Carol Sauvion, executive director of Craft in America, Inc.

Prologue
President Jimmy Carter

Introduction: The Evolution of American Crafts


PART I: COMMUNITIES OF CULTURE

Chapter 1: Religious Communities and the Honoring of the Handmade

Chapter 2: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America

Chapter 3: Native Communities – Indigenous Crafts by American Indians

Chapter 4: Communities of Heritage – Southern Contributions


PART II: SCHOOLS AS COMMUNITIES OF CRAFT TEACHING

Chapter 5: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

Chapter 6: California College of the Arts

Chapter 7: The Cranbrook Vision

Chapter 8: School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology

Chapter 9: Black Mountain College

Chapter 10: Penland School of Crafts


PART III: THE PLACE OF CRAFT IN AMERICA

Chapter 11: The New Studio Crafts Movement

Chapter 12: Shaping Craft in an American Framework


Epilogue: A Past That Is Prologue

Endnotes

Selected Bibliography for General Reference

Craft Centers and Schools

Museums That Show Craft, Design and Decorative Arts

Acknowledgments

Index