Craft Alliance has consistently defined itself as an environment for artists, collectors, students, and the art-viewing public to begin new conversations. The mixing of ideas, perspectives, and skills allows us as individuals to connect ourselves to a larger context outside of our own subculture; to become a community.
Craft Alliance believes it is vital to create space and opportunity for the varied St. Louis communities to come together. Our programming is built to stimulate the creative potential of our students. They come from all over the city, from different schools, from different neighborhoods; their family lives are all very different. The nature of our programs engages our students, together in the culture of craft.
Our Community Outreach programming (and CAF inparticular) has been illustrative of the fact that a student doesn’t just do something else; he or she becomes something else. As an organization we have witnessed what our students become through their studio work.
Our CAF students have found themselves at the beginning of a new year of programming - at the beginning of new studio engagements and relationships. We've posed a question. How do we build ourselves? What does that look like?
Maybe - just maybe - it looks like... South Park?
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