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Craft in the Expanded Field with Dr. Sandra Alfoldy

An OnDemand Online Lecture

Jun 19, 2013


Using Rosalind Krauss' seminal 1979 text Sculpture in the Expanded Field as its starting point, this enlightening lecture examines craft's growing pains, how they relate to the art-historical past and what they tell us about the field’s future.

Sandra Alfoldy

Dr. Sandra Alfoldy received her PhD in craft history from Concordia University in 2001 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester in 2002.

Sandra Alfoldy

Dr. Sandra Alfoldy received her PhD in craft history from Concordia University in 2001 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester in 2002. Her current research focuses on the relationship between craft and architecture in postwar Canada and the historical tensions between Canadian studio craft and industrial design. She is the author of Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), editor of NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts (NSCAD Press, 2007) and co-editor of Craft, Space and Interior Design: 1855-2005 (Ashgate Press, 2008).

Dr. Alfoldy co-curated the 2007 traveling exhibition On the Table: 100 Years of Functional Ceramics in Canada. She was the chief curator of the Canadian fine craft exhibition at the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea and the Canadian fine craft exhibition at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. In 2007, she organized the international “Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts” conference at NSCAD University. She credits her professional-textile-artist parents, Andy and Elaine Alfoldy, for instilling in her this obsession with the crafts.

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