Word: craftsman
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...wholly surrendered to either industry or "professionals." If, living in rural Maine or Pennsylvania in 1850, you wanted a chair, a yarn winder or a painted fire screen, there was a probability that you would have to make it yourself; the only other choice was a local or traveling craftsman. (By 1880 the mail-order and catalogue business was to change all that.) So folk art includes the minutely stitched embroideries over which the dutiful daughters of urban merchants strained their young eyes, no less than such humble ornaments as the chalkware statuettes cast from plaster by itinerant peddlers...
Ferrugia shows her work at Passim's, Jim Rippe, another Radcliffe craftsman, shows his at Hilles--each tries to drum up both economic and emotional support from a community that seems all too willing to accept superior work, but none to eager to provide for it. Teachers at the Radcliffe Pottery Studio should be recompensed for their time. Artistic exhibitions are important but artisans should not have to feel it necessary to give a show in order to peddle their wares...
Opening today his show at Hilles will also feature a previously recorded guided tour. Supposedly based on the collected writings of Jeremiah Rippe, a 19th-century craftsman, these structures baffle and boggle the contemporary psyche. Part Peter Max and part Michael Valentine, they scorn traditional interpretation. They also seem crazy...
...himself states, "This stuff is not strictly humorous. Some of it has to do with what it feels like to be a craftsman in 1973 who feels like maybe it would have been more comfortable to be alive a hundred years...
...like any craftsman, Steve takes pride in his product. When he runs out of clams, he does not mind telling you about the other clam sellers in Ipswich. But he is quick to warn you that the other clams may not be fresh, and somehow you know that the warning is sincere and not competitive salesmanship...