If you have something to show the world, do not let my bated breath be for naught.

enni Sorkin is among the new generation of American curators and art historians whose interest in craft issues was allowed to blossom within the demanding fine-arts context of discourse and theory. Thus her book is like Elissa Auther’s 2010 in that it considers the crafts within a larger framework, and also in that it has a feminist slant. The three women around whom Sorkin organizes her arguments are Bauhaus-educated Marguerite Wildenhain, who established summer workshops at Pond Farm in California; M.C. Richards, associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina and several members of the New York avant-garde and celebrated for her cult classic ; and Susan Peterson, who established ceramics programs at the University of Southern California and later at Hunter College