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.
Fred Anderson was born in 1907 in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1926. He initially worked as a painter of homes and churches, specializing in stencil work and marbling technique. In 1948 he opened his own wallpaper and paint store in St. Louis Park.
