RosettaStone: CRAFT A primary, secondary, and annotated source reader for functional craft. By: Randi O'Brien

This is an annotated evaluation of the following:

Making Space for Clay?: Ceramics, Regionalism, and Postmodernism in Regina Saskatchewan. By David Brian Howard
David Brian Howard, “Making Space for Clay?: Ceramics, Regionalism, and Postmodernism in Regina Saskatchewan” in Neo Craft: Modernity and the Crafts, ed. Sandra Alfoldy, 33-46 (Nova Scotia: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2007)

Reviewed by Randi O’Brien

Making Space for Clay?: Ceramics, Regionalism, and Postmodernism in Regina Saskatchewan written by the Associate Professor of Art History at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, David Brian Howard, researches the building of universality within modernism and the “revolt against modernist orthodoxy” within ceramic artist of Regina Saskatchewan. Howard presents a view and model for ceramic artist to investigate the contradictions of regionalism and cultural resistance which the author believes is topical when addressing the context of rejection of modernism and the “relationship between diverse material practices and regionalism”. My overall impression is that the author has fleshed out the claim in a personal and immediate way while making the argument approachable to a variety of regions.