Masters of Craft

For centuries a creative hot bed, modern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is home to veteran craft persons and artists as well as world class institutions promoting craft. Included are Philadelphia Museum of Art; five highly respected art schools with growing materials-based programs and facilities; rich and varied private and museum collections; dozens of active non-profit craft and community-based arts organizations; and many successful commercial galleries.
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“Ever since the American Crafts Council came into existence in 1943, it has been supported by great numbers of crafts-persons who have sown seeds which have covered much of our country with imaginary forests, in whose shade individuals could rest, expand their world and find appeasement from twentieth century tensions. As in any forest, there are trees which tower above the others. We count you among these giants.”
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