Studio welcomes article pitches from both emerging and established writers, academics, scholars, and journalists writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design and related stories. We are interested in original ideas, unique voices and perspectives, little-known histories, and anything that challenges the status quo of craft and design and the ideas around making.
Studio Magazine is a national publication committed to thoughtful, careful, and engaging writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design. We also have an ongoing commitment to supporting and mentoring writers.
Fall/Winter 2024: SPECTACLE
Deadline: March 31, 2024
For this issue of Studio, we’re looking for essays on the spectacular in craft. We’re interested in how craftspeople, processes, materials, and work are used to draw attention. We’re intrigued in presentations of craft beyond the display of crafted objects in museums, galleries, and shops. What are the connections between craft and performance, from the rise of the celebrity maker to the use of crafted objects as props to communicate identity? Topics of interest include:
Making and performance: how is craft used by performance artists, and how do craftspeople perform their work for an audience?
How do crafted objects contribute to the production of spectacle (e.g. the sculpture-smashing scene in the wildly popular Glass Onion)?
What are the relationships between craft and entertainment?
Making has become part of celebrity culture, from stars who publicly take up craft as a hobby (like the actor Seth Rogen’s pottery, or the rapper Juvenile’s furniture-making) to crafts artists and makers who become celebrities through reality TV programmes like All That Glitters and Blown Away — what does this mean for the future of craft?
Please send pitches to [email protected]. Include in your pitch a brief bio and links to writing samples. We review all pitches, and those that are accepted for publication will be contacted by email. Payment is upon publication.
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