Vol. 21 No. 1
Spring/Summer 2026: RESONANCE
This issue of Studio is about the connected nature of craft: how craft builds relationships between people, communities, and generations. Craft builds on tradition, using it as a foundation to further explore the possibilities and relationships between history and modernity. Forging links between generations of makers, craft acts as the central pillar from which contemporary expressions build — from materials to storytelling — craft transforms how we make and how we experience the world around us.
The vital importance of craft is celebrated in this issue: from craft traditions to teaching legacies — to proclaim the transformative impact of craft — from medium to message. Cross-generational links of mentorship ensure the continuity of skills refined over many years of studio practice and experimentation to be gifted to peers and emerging makers. Craft can shift, transform, and overcome boundaries through generosity and the permeability of skill that can be applied across disciplines. Craft carries knowledge and culture through care and intention, and is an investment of time, skill, and community that invites a mindful participation. Resonance requires a reciprocal relationship as it builds, and that is how community is made — through an ever-expanding network of knowledge — that each person shares with others. Craft is an ever-expanding process of world-building; we are building the world we want to make.
Lera Kotsyuba, Interim Editor-in-Chief
CONTENTS:
Resonance
EXPANSIVE CRAFT
Visual artist Jodie De Verney reflects on the roles of making and time in craft practice. READ
A RECORD OF BECOMING
A glimpse into the fantastical world of Sami Tsang’s ceramics by curator and writer Gladys Lou.
TO LEAD WITH WONDER: THE POWER OF GLASS
Interim editor in chief Lera Kotsyuba explores the 40-year career of groundbreaking glass artist Irene Frolic.
HARD WORK – EDUCATION FOR VALUES-BASED LIVING
Former editor in chief of Studio Magazine, Leopold Kowolik argues for the power and value of craft education in Canada. READ
ONE BEAD AT A TIME
Member of Norway House Cree Nation, beadwork artist, and lecturer at the University of Manitoba, Tammy G. Wolfe proclaims the power of the bead, and celebrates makers in her community.
CRAFTING CHINATOWN: MODEL-MAKING FOR COMMUNITY MEMORY AND IMAGINATION
Simon Liao and Linda Zhang discuss the impact of cultural memory and place in the “Let’s Build a Collective Memory of Chinatown” project.
YELLOWKNIFE: THE CRAFT CAPITAL OF CANADA?
Curator and arts administrator Laura Hodgins makes a bold statement, championing craft in the Northwest Territories.
FAMILIAR FACES OF ANCESTORS AND THE STORIES THEY CARRY
Ceramicist and writer Lewis Nicholson illustrates the connection between community and making in the powerful work of Gordon Sparks.
PORTFOLIO
Ozana Gherman, Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory, (Edmonton, Alberta)
