The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design

The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design is a publication on contemporary craft politics edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch. Bloomsbury Press, 2020. Order from Bloomsbury Press Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the

Performing Austerity: Artists, Work, and Economic Speculation

The relationship between arts economies and austerity is a tumultuous one. We need only recall Stephen Harper’s sneering 2008 categorization of artists as rich complainers as evidence of the persistent myths that are used to devalue artistic work as “non-essential”