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What do you consider yourself?

Artist

70% (17)

Craftsperson

0% (0)

Artisan

16% (4)

Hobbyist

8% (2)

Crafter

4% (1)

Total Votes : 24

(last vote on : 3/21/2008 8:45:34 PM)
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RE: What do you consider yourself? - 3/20/2008 6:44:39 PM

dawnt

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Bless you, Robin and Jeanne!

Good insights, Carmen and Marie! This is a great discussion; I'm so glad for all the input!

I always liked "painter" and "potter" and those nice descriptive terms, too. (Or ceramicist, sculptor, jeweler etc.) Glass doesn't really have a nice term like that. If we had one, I'd use it. "Glasser" just sounds weird.

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RE: What do you consider yourself? - 3/20/2008 6:58:44 PM

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I could call myself an artisan until the cows come home. But the people who see my work don't. They usually say I am a crafter. If attention to detail, painstaking execution and good design elevates a crafter to something else, I guess I'm that something else. But what you call it I have no idea.

Meanwhile, I keep foolin' around with glass.

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RE: What do you consider yourself? - 3/20/2008 8:58:56 PM

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I consider everyone here an artist. When I was at a lecture today, viewing Hohokam pots and jars, I considered those to be art (and they were--even though I assume they were used for something). Some like to say that craft is functional, but I think that just means it's functional art.

I consider myself an artist, with dabbling hobbies I don't consider myself skilled at. But, in almost every case, I consider Apollistic pursuits to be art.

Like Kris Jean, "craft" makes me think of paste and construction paper.

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RE: What do you consider yourself? - 3/21/2008 4:28:00 PM

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quote:

What do you think, Steph? Since you work in a craft medium, do you think your work has to be more special, somehow, to transcend the craft/art line? I kind of feel that way about my stuff.

Most definitely! There is so much awesome work out there that I admire greatly and it inspires me to keep trying to do better with each piece and not just crank out piecework by the dozens. I admire those than can do both but I am not one of them. One thing I have learned is I can't create on demand. But then....

Let's take the dagger bracelets for example. I saw one in a shop with a class scheduled to learn it but I knew right away it is just simple peyote odd count so no reason for the class for me. It is a pattern and some very artistic person thought it up. I call that bracelet an amazing little work of art for sure. But to make it? That is craft.

Now on to the freeform work...I call that art. And threin lies the rub. Even a pattern piece is art so what is the answer? In the execution I think.

I have been trying to think of an answer to your poll/questions all week and it is very difficult and I still haven't picked a poll answer!

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RE: What do you consider yourself? - 3/21/2008 9:24:31 PM

defyinggravity

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quote:

So, to me, it doesn't matter what the medium is...if you make pretty, original things, you're an artist.

I completely agree Cary.

Artist is a general title that implies one is involved in creative pursuits.

All other titles, whether used alone or in combination with the title artist are an indication of media, methodology, and other qualifiers. This extends beyond all forms of visual art of course. Think musicians, singers, composers, architects, scientists even.

There are of course times, places and situations where the qualifier would be the proper title to use for identification or marketing purposes. The fact remains though, that all are artists.

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