FROM THE EDITOR
Kinship. If we’ve learned anything over the past 18 months of life during a global pandemic, it’s that connection matters. So in this issue, which honors American Craft’s 80th anniversary, we explore craft and kinship. Here you’ll find stories of artists whose work has been shaped by deep connection. On the cover is a quilted portrait by Bisa Butler, who finds kin among the people in the old photographs that inspire her textile work (page 22). Our “Maker” profile highlights Dina Nur Satti, whose ceramic vessels reconnect her with North and East African ceremonial traditions and her cultural identity (page 19). Thought-provoking essays by the late Anni Albers (page 41), cultural forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort (page 44), and American Craft’s art director Lisa Mauer Elliott (page 58) offer insights into the soulful…