Buzek and Stevens notes

BUZEK

I think that Buzek sees art using craft media in many cases. I feel like she sees craft as a use of certain mediums like beads or ceramics. I think the difference between the two is small and hard to describe. She says the lines blur between the differences between art and craft a few times in the article. She does seem to describe art as more elitist, has a special audience, is more structured, and privileged. Craft was described a having an everyday feel, handmade, sensual, and it "aims to integrate the Utopian intellectual ideals of art within practical objects of everyday life. Craft has a "specific role to play beyond materiality." Therefore, material does have something to do with the difference between art and craft but the differences do go beyond that. It was difficult for me to really see a difference. I did feel like art was described as more structured throughout the article whereas craft had it's own free feel to it. On page 13 it says "craft theory cannot be assimilated neatly into that of contemporary art, but instead merits its own language and measures."

I think Buzek's main concern regarding art and craft is showing the reader of her book that there is a clear difference between the two. I don't think she necessarily likes that the two are being blurred together as one. Also, I think she wants people to see that the differences go beyond the materials used in craft like I stated above. That's the main issue she's trying to get at. Also, I think she may be trying to get to the differences between art and fine art as well. Fine art is mentioned a few times in the article.

avant garde-refers to people or work that are experimental or innovative, particularly in respect to art, culture, and politics

• Important because I knew it was an art movement and therefore would be important when discussing the difference between art and craft. I have to know what the subject is before comparing it to something else.

STEVENS

I believe that Stevens thinks that the way people view craft differs, especially in relation to age. He talks about Generation X and the baby boomer generations a lot. He compares the type of craft that once was and how it has evolved. "Gradually, it is becoming apparent that the domain of craft is at a generational crossroads and is presently expanding to embrace aspects of cultural hybridization that have not previously been recognized or articulated within the status-quo craft community" (43). Then Steven's goes on talking about how today, people who craft are not sticking to tradition. They are using the Internet to discuss craft, sell craft, and create new craft. Also, DIY is new for this generation. I think he does a good job explaining this new type of craft as well as looking at the baby boomer generation and describing that craft as well. He tries to validate both types, but I think he leaves it open to the reader to decide if the Gen-Y and Gen-X craft is "real" craft.

Like stated before, the different generational groups are the baby boomer generation and the Gen-X generation. "Just as the baby boomers' countercultural in the 1960s was a response to the conformity of the 1950s, DIY craft is not at all interested in American craft's hierarchies, power structures, or institutional methods for confirming status" (53). The new generation has more choice and isn't interested in as much structure as the baby boomer generation. I see that difference too and also, see the internet as a clear difference. Now craft is being made, sold, and ideas are being bounced around thanks to this new medium.

third wave feminism- a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but often marked as beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present.

• This is important because it was mentioned more than once in the text. I knew what feminism was, but was curious about this because of the fact that it was mentioned a few times.