Published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show, Crafting a Legacy showcases the Museum's burgeoning collection of contemporary American crafts. More than one hundred color plates illustrate many of the Museum's prime holdings in ceramics, wood, fiber, glass, metal, and furniture. Entries on sixty-four featured artists, including Dale Chihuly, Wharton Esherick, Sheila Hicks, and Peter Voulkos, place their work in the context of the dynamic field of American crafts. Suzanne Ramljak reveals the valuable role that crafts play in contemporary culture and artistic practice.

Ceramics : Robert Arneson, Bennett Bean, William Daley, Richard DeVore, Ruth Duckworth, Viola Frey, David Gilhooly, Wayne Higby, Jun Kaneko, Michael Lucero, Ron Nagle, Gertrude and Otto Natzler, William Perry, Kenneth Price, Richard Shaw, Paul Soldner, Rudolf Staffel, Toshiko Takaezu, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Robert Winokur, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman Fiber : Sheila Hicks, Lewis Knauss, Richard Landis, John McQueen, Michael Olszekewski, Ed Rossbach, Cynthia Schira, Joyce Scott, Thomas Stearns, Lenore Tawney, Evelyn Svec Ward, Claire Zeisler Furniture : Wendell Castle, John Cederquist, Wharton Esherick, James Krenov, Sam Maloof, Wendy Maruyama, Judy Kensley McKie, George Nakashima Glass : Howard Ben Tre, Dale Chihuly, Dominick Labino, Harvey Littleton, Richard Marquis, Tom Patti, Judith Schaechter, Toots Zynsky (Mary Ann Zynsky) Metal : Chunghi Choo, William Harper, Stanley Lechtzin, Albert Paley, Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Olaf Skoogfors Wood : David Ellsworth, Gyongy Laky, Mark Lindquist, Edward Moulthrop, James Prestini, Robert Stocksdale