Taylor, Paul Michael and Shalabayeva, Gulmira, editors. 2020. Kazakhstan's Crafts and Creative Economy: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Almaty, Kazakhstan: Kasteyev State Museum of Arts.
"Kazakhstan's Crafts and Creative Economy", jointly published by the Kasteyev State Museum of Arts (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and the Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., USA) presents papers delivered at the international scholarly symposium of the same title held in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2019, along with additional relevant papers solicited by the editors. The symposium brought together researchers from both institutions. The Kazakh scholars, staff of the Kasteyev Museum of Arts alongside the head of the Union of Artisans of Kazakhstan, here present compelling studies of Kazakhstan's crafts. The American contributors, who are researchers in the Smithsonian's Asian Cultural History Program, responded with papers presenting comparative examples of their own approaches to craft studies in the USA and elsewhere. The symposium was held at the National Building Museum, during the annual Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show, at which members of the Union of Artisans of Kazakhstan displayed many Kazakh craft works never before seen outside Kazakhstan. The book presents chapters by the volume's two editors, Paul Michael Taylor (researcher and director of the Smithsonian's Asian Cultural History Program) and Gulmira Shalabayeva (director of the Kasteyev Museum); by Aizhan Bekkulova (Union of Artisans); by Nataliya Bazhenova, Clara Isabaeva, Amir Jadaibaev, Svetlana Kobzhanova, Nurzhamal Nurfeizova, Yekaterina Reznikova, Galina Syrlybayeva, Oxana Tanskaya, and Gulaim Zhubabekova, and (Kasteyev Museum); and by Inigo Acosta, Jared Koller, Robert Pontsioen, and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (Smithsonian).
