>[!NOTE]+ Record > Author:: [[Glenn Adamson]] > Reference:: https://freeweekly.com/2021/02/19/conversation-on-craft-exhibition-weaves-new-threads-into-american-story/ > Date:: 2021-02 > Tags:: #USA > WeftLinks:: [[World Craft Dictionary]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Glenn Adamson's definition in "Crafting America" (2021) This definition of craft has been employed by Glenn Adamson and was used as the curatorial principle for the exhibition *Crafting America*. >Each of these materials has its own unique history and organizers knew viewers would come to the exhibition with myriad perceptions of the field. So the curators decided to take a straightforward interpretation of craft: skilled making at human scale. >It’s a form that, regardless of medium, requires intensive training and technical skills that are learned, Padgett clarifies. This framework distinguishes the medium from handmade pieces, as well as from machine manufacturing, adds Glenn Adamson, guest curator and scholar of craft, design history and contemporary art.