We Are Makers #20

200 x 270 mm, 160 pages

Glasgow, UK

Quarterly

First published 2020

Editor-in-chief: Kate Lennie

Designer: Jack Lennie

Created by a couple of self-identified ‘makers’, the Glasgow-born publication We Are Makers exists to connect the reader and the maker, providing an opportunity for in-depth stories to be shared, craft to be (deservedly) shown off and creative communities cultivated. 

In this twentieth edition, editor Kate Lennie gives voice to an idea that has underpinned the magazine since its first issue: ‘the need to bridge the gap between maker and customer’. As she puts it, ‘We - humans - are makers. Always have been’, but creatives need an income to sustain their craft. 

Inside, Lachlan MacKee visits the rainforest studio of Australian artist and potter Peter Thompson, tracing his pottery journey and the philosophies that underpin his craft; the team take a serendipitous trip to Santa Fe’s Winter Indian Market, a showcase of Native American craft, interviewing a Navajo cradlemaker and Hopi doll carver; and, in Sheffield, hear from a map artist and jeweller, knifemaker, ceramic tile artist, and quilter, as well as makers based in Scotland, Sweden, Estonia, and further afield in California.