American art pottery, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, emphasized aesthetic beauty and unique glazes over mass production. Using traditional materials, it was known for a color palette of ...

The Arts and Crafts movement was a response to similar conditions ... William Morris — believed that the objects we used daily should be both beautiful and well-made. They championed traditional ...

During the last three decades craft scholarship has grown exponentially, creating a field of study that invites us to consider how craft discourses and craft objects have shaped one another since the ...