Craft Manifestos

The Positive Product Manifesto

https://www.storymfg.com/pages/manfifesto

STORY mfg. was born out of a desire for a more authentic, fulfilling and kind approach to fashion -- one that doesn't involve a trade-off between aesthetics and consciousness. We are a husband and wife team and work with a large group of dyers, weavers, embroiderers and tailors in our atelier in the Indian forest.

Crafting Europe

https://wcc-europe.org/.../WCCE-Manifesto-digital-copy.pdf

World Crafts Council Europe, its members and partners are the voice of millions of craft professionals, studios, and manufacturers across Europe. Craft is a dynamic and diverse sector representing hundreds of specialized trades.

Craftifesto

http://craftivism.com/blog/craftifesto/

Created in 2008 by Amy Carlton, Cinnamon Cooper, and Kate Bingaman-Burt, this poster lays out the principles of craft activism. It also clearly links this activism with feminist philosophy which has advocated the principle that “the personal is political.”

Bauhaus Manifesto

https://www.bauhausmanifesto.com/

Program of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar
Walter Gropius, 1919

The ultimate goal of all art is the building! The ornamentation of the building was once the main purpose of the visual arts, and they were considered indispensable parts of the great building.

Engineering at home manifesto

http://engineeringathome.org/manifesto

Pitzer College Art Galleries exhibit (2018). Manifesto co-wrote by Sara Hendren and Caitrin Lynch

(Affective) Craft Manifesto

https://journalofmoderncraft.com/articles/affective-craft-manifesto

Critical Studies University of New York in New Paltz (2013)

The Citizens of Craft

https://citizensofcraft.ca/manifesto

In August of 2014, the Provincial and Territorial Craft Councils and the Canadian Crafts Federation set out to "Rematerialize Craft." The goals of this exploration were to clarify and deepen the public’s understanding of craft and make craft more accessible to Canadians.

The Unknown Craftsman, Soetsu Yanagi

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1105345.The_Unknown_Craftsman

This is a running list compiled from responses to a question from

Sarah Schultz on Critical Craft Forum (10/2020).

If you have more to add email ahelgeson@warren-wilson.edu