Merging Art and Design Through Craft: An Appreciation of Murano Glass David Revere McFadden Chief Curator, Museum of Arts and Design, New York © David Revere McFadden, 2003. All rights reserved. The writer Arthur Koestler wrote true creativity often starts where language ends. Creativity is nourished at many levels of consciousness, but especially through the world of the senses. What we hear, smell, taste, touch, and see are doorways into the creative process. Through the physical senses, we are able to give material form to our deepest desires, longings, and visions. Artists in any medium recognize and reveal the power of the senses, and in so doing reaffirm the quintessentially human ability to create and perceive beauty. In the closing years of the twentieth century, a new awareness of what was considered art helped focus attention on objects created by craftsmen and designers. Until this time, their work was considered not only separate from–but even unequal to–the fine arts. Finally, a new paradigm of creative activity emerged, demonstrating the intimate relationship of art, craft, and design. Today art, architecture, craft, design, and fashion have interpenetrated each other to an exceptional degree, rendering hard and fast distinctions among the fields useless and deceptive.
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