Can you give Craftsmanship a hand?
We have some great new stories in the works for 2023 and beyond that we can't wait to share with you. Can you help support our work?
Dear Friends,
Whether you’ve been following our work for years or are new to our community, we’re delighted to have you here. If you’ve joined us recently, you may not realize that our multimedia magazine, Craftsmanship Quarterly, is a labor of love—by us, and by you. It is an entirely reader-supported publication that we currently offer free of charge and free of ads. Our small, hardworking team spends months developing stories that are as meticulously researched and richly illustrated as we can manage. In doing so, we make an extra effort to choose subjects that resonate with our values of mastery, sustainability, and durability—principles that matter more than ever in our increasingly throw-away society. If you care about these issues, too, we hope you’ll help us expand this work by donating as you can.
We also want to tell you about some exciting new topics we have in the works for 2023, and beyond. We have one issue in the works on “The Art of Repair,” and another that will focus on the craftsmanship happening in technology and new materials. We’ll also be working on improving and expanding our most popular community initiatives—our free, online Artisans’ Directory and our official Facebook Group—to make them even more useful and effective for our members.
To keep doing all of this, and still pay our contributors fair market rates, we really do depend on your support. If you can donate $12 today—the equivalent of just $1 a month—that would help sustain our work well past next year. And if you can afford to donate more than $12, you help keep the magazine accessible to all. (And thanks to our nonprofit fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media, any of your donations are tax-deductible.) So we hope you will support our work in any way you can.
We’ll return to our regular weekly publishing schedule in early January, with new stories focused on stonework. While we’re away, I hope you'll always find something intriguing to read, watch, or listen to within our pages. We always welcome your thoughts via email, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Thank you for reading and sharing our stories, for donating to our cause when you can, and for being such a loyal part of the Craftsmanship community.
Wishing you all a joyful holiday season,
Todd Oppenheimer
Editor & Publisher, Craftsmanship Quarterly
As a gift to our growing Craftsmanship community, and to promote #shophandmade for the holidays (a value close to our hearts), we invite you, our members, to submit your own handmade work for our second annual Holiday Artisan Spotlight.
The chosen entries will be featured on our primary social media channels: Instagram; Twitter; and, most prominently, Facebook, where we have almost 120k followers. We will run as many of these posts as we can throughout the holiday shopping season. There is no charge to you—just complete the form linked above, and we’ll take it from there!
Native American Craft: The Southwest
In our first issue focused on Native American craft, which we hope will be joined by others in the coming years, we look at the unusually rich and varied craft traditions of some of the Southwest’s Indian tribes. These communities rarely let outsiders see much of their cultural practices, but thanks to the tireless work of a few New Mexico writers and others, who have spent years developing relationships with members of the region’s tribes, we can offer you a glimpse into the work of some remarkable Indigenous artists and artisans.