Craft Forward
Symposium 2011

California College of the Arts
San Francisco & Oakland

Mission Bay Conference Center
in the William J. Rutter Center
UCSF, San Francisco

April 1st to 3rd

“Craft only exists in motion.”
— Glenn Adamson, keynote speaker

Craft Forward examines the multifaceted practices that both distinguish and blur the historically charged boundaries between craft, art, design, architecture and writing. The symposium brings together a diverse group of makers and thinkers to explore the ethos of craft and its resurgence in the 21st century.

Craft Forward will be held at Mission Bay Conference Center, located in the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, and California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Oakland. Please see Transit for maps and addresses, Program for individual event locations.

Generous support for the Craft Forward symposium is provided by an anonymous donor and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Additional support is provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and by the Chalsty Aesthetics and Philosophy Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Chalsty Foundation. Special thanks to the American Craft Council for their partnership in the realization of the symposium.