Is it Post-craft or simply Not-craft?

It seems like the term post-craft was cultivated to show that glass art really is “in the service of meaning”, as Ginny Ruffner put it. This new terminology states that glass art is art and not simply beautiful science. That glass art contributes to our growing awareness as human beings. That glass art is not business centered; it will doff its need to sell itself (to make money) and simply find it’s artistic way by exploring the concepts of life like every other artist does.

Question: Why, in a social historical context, have SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art) vendors chosen to hype works that favor intellect over function in 2007?

Answer: Their choices could be a conscious decision to show works that might move glass closer to acceptance in the art world. Enough glass artists and critics wondered about glass’s viability as art, and they is responding by selecting works to display that meet the criteria of so-called meaningful art. This came at the expense of utilitarian objects because some people could not find deeper meaning in useful items.

Mark Lyman (of SOFA) said in 2007…"the main evolution seems to be a further embrace of the abstract and sculptural over the functional, increasingly sophisticated intellectual content, and experimentation with new materials.” (Blue Manifesto Blog Accessed September 2008)

If the post-craft glass is an evolution of glass art away from the Crafts aspect of Arts and Crafts, then why not just call it Arts? That is what they're trying to prove with this after all!

Does "Post-craft" work as a label? Should it really be called Not-craft?

Enough with the pre-fix "post"! Post-modern, post-apocalyptic, post-coital, post-classical...post-rock. Please read "Musical terms that you irrationally hate"