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  • Craft reference site:  http://www.hellocraft.com/about/
  • Great Forbes article:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2011/12/09/what-every-entrepreneur-can-learn-from-the-crafting-industry/
  • I heart route-setting (rock-climbing):  http://routecrafting.blogspot.com/
  • Rob Barnard has a great collection of essays spanning at least the last twenty-five years. They span a number of topics which he has categorized them by: "Use," "Tradition-Is There Room For It In The Future?" "The Modern Crafts Establishment," etc... Under each of these topics he has listed his many writings. Thoughtful writings which I highly recommend: http://www.rob-barnard.com/essays/contents/ 
  • Interview with Glenn Adamson by Alex Rauch on portlandart.net: http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/02/glenn_adamson_t.html 
  • Interview with Garth Clark by Alex Rauch on portlandart.net: http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/10/garth_clark_exc.html 
  • Collection of technical and aesthetic writing by the Australian wood-fire potter Owen Rye: http://www.owenrye.com/articles/index.html 
  • Writings by Dick Lehman, an inspirational wood fire potter: http://www.dicklehman.com/html/writing/index.html 
  • Articles by Australian wood fire potter Steve Harrison, author of "Laid Back Wood Firing," "Australian Wood Firing" and other books: http://www.hotnsticky.com.au/ 
  • Ted Talk by Rob Forbes: http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_forbes_on_ways_of_seeing.html 
  • The Smithsonian Institution has a great resource called the "Archives of American Art." There are interviews with Val Cushing, Jun Kaneko, Kurt Weiser, Charles Furgus Binns, Beatrice Wood... the list goes on and on:  http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/