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Shannon Wilson Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1992, pp. 67-68 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436459/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:57 GMT from JHU Libraries traditional crafts and craftspeople are still with us, and efforts are continually being made to keep them a part of the craft scene, the average craftsperson is now university- or craft-school-trained. He/she knows the market, knows something about exhibiting and selling, and is often a clever business person. Given all this, area craftspeople are becoming more and more "mainstream," their work indistinguishable from that of other areas. Barker draws astute conclusions about the recent history and the future of crafts. Surprisingly, after so many years of working for and with government funding, he concludes that often the subsidies did more harm than good. Knowing nothing about crafts, government agencies have often supported groups with poor standards of work or organization—or none. Or they have instituted training programs on the premise that any craft can be taught to anyone in six easy lessons. The private organizations, the guilds, with or with- out outside subsidies, have been the ones who
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
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