Sloppy Craft

Foreword: Anne Wilson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Introduction: Elaine C. Paterson and Susan Surette, Concordia University, Canada

Section One - Explorations of Postdisciplinarity through 'Sloppy Craft'
Introduction
'Male Trouble': Sewing, Amateurism and Gender, Joseph McBrinn, University of Ulster, Ireland
Sloppy Craft as Temporal Drag, Elissa Auther and Elyse Speaks, University of Colorado, USA
An Impression of Déjà vu: Craft, the Visual Arts and the Need to get Sloppy, Denis Longchamps, Concordia University, Canada

Section Two - The Implications of 'Sloppy Craft'
Introduction
Doomed to Failure, Sandra Alfoldy, NSCAD University, USA
The Value of 'Sloppy Craft': Creativity and Community, Juliette MacDonald, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Why is Sloppy and Postdisciplinary Craft Significant and What are its Historical Precedents?, Gloria Hickey, curator and writer, USA
From Maria Martinez to Kent Monkman: Performing Sloppy Craft in Native America, Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Concordia University, Canada

Section Three - 'Sloppy Craft' in Practice and Pedagogy: A Conversation
Introduction
Eliza Au, Ceramist, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, British Columbia, Canada
Jean-Pierre Larocque, Ceramist, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Kelly Thompson, Fibres, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Conor Wilson, Ceramist, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Peter Wilson, Ceramist, Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia

Postscript - Reprint of Glenn Adamson's text 'When Craft gets Sloppy,' from Crafts No 211 (March/April, 2008), 36-40

Index