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Description

As an open-access online compendium containing thousands of unique images, documents, and media, the ACC Digital Collections detail the history of contemporary craft in America. From ACC newsletters and photographs to firsthand documentation of major national craft exhibitions, the digital collections offer makers, scholars, and craft appreciators a glimpse at some of the ACC Library’s most invaluable resources.

The ACC Digital Collection includes digitized materials from the archives of the American Craft Council and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts/American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design). In addition, the collection includes issues of Craft Horizons/American craft magazine from 1941-1990, newsletters of the ACC and the Minnesota Crafts Council, oral histories of the Furniture Society, the Society of North American Goldsmiths slide archive, and artist file materials from the Friends of Fiber Art International.

Contributors

Jessica Shaykett | Dulcey Heller | Beth Goodrich

Institutional Affiliation

American Craft Council

Sponsors

National Endowment for the Arts | Visual Resources Association Foundation | Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund | John and Robyn Horn Foundation | First Tennessee Bank Foundation | Institute of Museum and Library Services

Is this project Alive?

Yes

Year: Known Start

2012

Decades

2010-2020 | 2020-2030

Art History

20th Century | Museum

Software and Technologies

Database

Reviewed

No

Project Images

Photograph of fiber artist Anni Albers
Photograph of fiber artist Anni Albers taken at The Third Annual National Conference of American Craftsmen, sponsored by the American Craftsmen's Council and held at Silver Bay, in Lake George, New York June 19 through 21, 1959. ©American Craft Council.
Image of James Lee Byars, wearing a hat, in his Plural Dress
Image taken of James Lee Byars (wearing hat) in his Plural Dress at the opening of the exhibition "Body Covering" on April 5th, 1968. The exhibition was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City, April 6 through June 9, 1968. ©American Craft Council.
Photograph of the artists Dale Chihuly and Jamie Carpenter creating milk glass objects
Artists Dale Chihuly and Jamie Carpenter creating milk glass objects for the exhibition "Dale Chihuly/Jamie Carpenter/Glass", on view in the Second Floor Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City from September 24-November 7, 1971. ©American Craft Council.
Photograph of the installation "Art for Use"
Installation view of "Art for Use" that was commissioned by the National Fine Arts Committee for the XIII Olympic Games. The American Craft Museum organized the exhibition to feature over 100 pieces of artwork by 72 artists. "Art for Use" was shown at the Center for Music, Drama, and Art at Lake Placid, New York from February 2-24, 1980, and from March 28 -May 25, 1980, at the American Craft Museum in New York City. ©American Craft Council.
Cover of the August, 1952 issue of Craft Horizons magazine
Cover of the August, 1952 issue of Craft Horizons magazine. Cover image features handwrought silver designed by Henning Koppel, youngest of the Jensen group in Copenhagen. Arrangement by Sydney Butchkes, photographs by Hans Van Nes. ©American Craft Council.
Cover of a catalog from America House
Photograph of fiber artist Anni Albers AnniAlbers_3rdNationalConference_1959
Image of James Lee Byars, wearing a hat, in his Plural Dress ByarsJamesLee_PluralDress_1968
Photograph of the artists Dale Chihuly and Jamie Carpenter creating milk glass objects CarpenterChihuly_1971
Photograph of the installation "Art for Use" ArtForUse_Installation_1980
Cover of the August, 1952 issue of Craft Horizons magazine CraftHorizons_1952.08
Cover of a catalog from America House AmericaHouse_catalog