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Creator:: Minnesota Crafts Council
Date Created:: 1980
Description:: Volume 7, number 1 of Minnesota Crafts Council (MCC) Craft Connection was published in the first quarter of 1981. The theme of this issue is artists who continue their craft while taking on new sideline roles. Contents include the Groveland Gallery; the use of crafts and commissioning of craftspeople in the interiors business; MCC's project to compile a sourcebook of craftspeople; Wisconsin Designer-Craftsmen; quilt pattern design; quilt shop Glad Creations; working between two or more fields; the National Crafts Planning Project from the National Endowment for the Arts; the various side paths a craft career can take; reflections on sideline work from potter Wayne Branum; marketing and earning money from crafts; and mending and repairing.
Contributing Institution:: American Craft Council
Type:: Text
Format:: Newsletters

Creator:: Minnesota Crafts Council
Date Created:: 1977-06-01
Description:: Volume 3, number 3 of Minnesota Crafts Council (MCC) Craft Connection was published in June 1977 and is centered around jurying. Contents include profile of weaver Jean Stamsta; profile of tapestry designer and weaver Muriel Nezhnie Helfman; the process jurors follow to select pieces for the American Crafts Council's Museum of Contemporary Crafts; a summary of the slide jurying process for the Minnesota Crafts Festival; National Endowment for the Arts advisory panels; public funds and the Affiliated State Agencies of the Upper Midwest; the eligibility of crafts in applications for grant money; profile and workshop review of potter Harry Davis; and news about the Minnesota Crafts Festival.
Contributing Institution:: American Craft Council
Type:: Text
Format:: Newsletters

Creator:: Minnesota Crafts Council
Date Created:: 1995
Description:: Volume 19, number 2 of Minnesota Crafts Council (MCC) Craft Connection was published in the second quarter of 1995. The story on the front page profiles leather worker Ken Dumdie. Other contents include the search for an Executive Director at MCC and the outsourcing of Minnesota Crafts Festival planning; doll maker Brenna Busse; weaver John Skare; the jurying process for the 1995 Minnesota Crafts Festival; celebrating the tenth year of the Fiber/Metal show; Craft Connection Gallery's first annual meeting; the 20th anniversary of the Craft Connection newsletter; legislation regarding the National Endowment for the Arts; highlights from past issues of Craft Connection; summary of a grant writing workshop with Bob DeArmond; various comments on meeting production demands; and a summary of the MCC Annual Meeting.
Contributing Institution:: American Craft Council
Type:: Text
Format:: Newsletters

Creator:: Minnesota Crafts Council
Date Created:: 1980
Description:: Volume 7, number 3 of Minnesota Crafts Council (MCC) Craft Connection was published in the third quarter of 1981. The story on the front page is an interview with Curator of Textiles Lotus Stack on the conservation of the Minneapolis Institute of Art tapestry collection. Other contents include the second phase of the National Crafts Planning Project from the National Endowment for the Arts; summary and photographs of the 1981 Minnesota Crafts Festival; the Textile Arts Alliance; profile of wall stenciler Alice Bancroft Fjelsul; the history of crafts at the Minnesota Museum of Art; and creating brochures.
Contributing Institution:: American Craft Council
Type:: Text
Format:: Newsletters

Creator:: Minnesota Crafts Council
Date Created:: 1990
Description:: Volume 14, number 3 of Minnesota Crafts Council (MCC) Craft Connection was published in the third quarter of 1990. On the front page are images of advertisements for the Minnesota Crafts Festival over the years. Other contents include a letter from Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Executive Director Pamela A. Perri regarding the National Endowment for the Arts; information about the 18th Annual Minnesota Crafts Festival and a list of exhibitors; tips for writing a press release; and a year in review for the Craft Emergenct Relief Fund.
Contributing Institution:: American Craft Council
Type:: Text
Format:: Newsletters

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