Craft and Heritage

Elaine Cheasley Paterson is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Canada. Susan Surette is part-time Faculty at Concordia University, Canada and ceramic artist.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Susan Surette (Concordia University, Canada)

Section 1: Place and Belonging
Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada)
1. Popular Heritage: 'Donegal Village' at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893, Janice Helland (Queen's University, Canada)
2. Sopon Bezirdjian, Craft, Heritage and Identity in Victorian Manchester, Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (University of Lincoln, UK)
3. Empire, Nation, and Biên Hòa Ceramics: Craft as a Site of Chronopolitical Reproduction, Thu-huong Nguyen-võ (UCLA, USA)
4. The Unicorn and the Ground-Hornbill: Heritage in the Keiskamma Art Project’s Intsikizi Tapestries, Brenda Schmahmann (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
5. Latin-American and Latin-Canadian Textile Practices: Art, Activism and Diasporic Identity, Nuria de Grammont (Concordia University, Canada) and Maria Ezcurra (McGill University, Canada)

Section 2: Sustainability and Resilience
Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada)
6. Blessed are the Cheese Makers: A Cultural History of Cheese in Early-Twentieth Century Ireland, Eleanor Flegg (writer, Ireland)
7. Piecing Heritage in Transition: The Lakota Sioux Star Quilt as a Symbol of Pan-Indigeneity, Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada)
8. A Cart Before a Horse: How the Subfield of Traditional Workmanship is Transforming the Field of Heritage Conservation, Giedre Jarulaitiene (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
9. Becoming Heritage Smart: Negotiating the Dilemma of Craft Practice in a Ceramic Center, Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
10. Postcolonial and Global Heritage Narratives from Communal and Individual Perspectives in Dumbara Weaving – Sri Lanka, Chamithri Greru (UAL, UK) and Britta Kalkreuter (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)

Section 3: Collections and Cultural Institutions
Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada)
11. Canadian Women China Painters: Artists and Amateurs, Rachel Gotlieb (Sheridan College, Canada)
12. Crafting Civic Engagement? How Heritage Lottery Funding Reframed Watts Gallery: Artists’ Village, Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada)
13. Craft as Performance in China’s Porcelain Heritage Capital, Maris Gillette (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
14. Craft Narratives from Heritage Sites in Buganda, Maureen Muwanga Senoga (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
15. Hunting for Lost Crafts: The Contemporary Value of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland, Juliette MacDonald (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)