“It’s historical, it’s international, it’s traditional, it’s so many things,” Isken said. That can be confusing to visitors, she said. As a noncollecting museum, Craft Contemporary doesn’t have the same commitment to historical works that other museums might, though it does plan to offer educational programs about the history of craft. “We’re looking more at the process, the hands-on, the materiality,” she said. “And we felt that by calling ourselves the Craft & Folk Art Museum, that it was a little limiting.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times