Craft lives inside the artist, and it operates in the mind, not in
standards or techniques. Creative writers navigate thresholds in
consciousness as they develop their arts practice. Craft
Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing explores
what it is to be an artist as it traces radical, feminist, and
culturally embedded traditions in craft. The new term "craft
consciousness" identifies the nexus from which writers explore
making processes and practitioner knowledge. Writers, as with all
artists, create and reimagine themselves anew, and it is in this
perpetual state of becoming that they find ways to enlarge their
sense of artistry through an exploration of forms, processes, and
mediums beyond the written word. For writers, this book initiates a
reexamination of the mission of creative writing through disrupting
patriarchal, racist, colonialist, ableist, and capitalist
associations with dominant craft. Drawing from twenty-five
interviews with living artists outside of writing and in a host of
fields from conceptual art to leatherwork and dance, the book
shines a light on how the processes associated with craft are
embodied. Craft is an internalized matrix; it need not be
commodified for the marketplace or codified in the standards
necessitated by institutions of higher education. By redesigning
writing workshops and MFA/PhD programs through craft consciousness,
new potentials and collaborations emerge, and it becomes more
conceivable to imagine dynamic, inclusive relationships between
writers, scientists, and other artists.
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