Death of the Novelty King -- Crawl space -- A path to uncertainty -- Four-wall handball -- What's in a name? -- A spiritual passage -- A mid-career challenge: walking in the woods with Walt Whitman -- Who needs education? -- What labor has taught me -- What I tell students about craft as a career -- The creative circle: making, displaying, and viewing -- How money, or the lack of it, challenges an artist's career -- How our perceived limitations can become our strengths -- Artist portfolio. Diversity on the American art/craft landscape: artists to learn from -- Kate Anderson -- Rick Ayotte -- Melissa Ayotte -- Bennett Bean -- Lanny Bergner -- Dale Chihuly -- Sharon Church -- Cristina Córdova -- Amber Cowan -- Marilyn da Silva -- Einar and Jamex de la Torre -- Nick Dong -- Kathleen Elliot -- Darlys Ewoldt -- Shane Fero -- Pat Flynn -- Donald Friedlich -- Andrea Gill -- Michael Glancy -- David Graeber -- William Gudenrath -- William Hunter -- Ferne Jacobs -- Lauren Kalman -- Lewis Knauss -- Jon Kuhn -- Eva Kwong -- Cliff Lee -- Tom Loeser -- Carmen Lozar -- Sam Maloof -- Richard Marquis -- Mark Matthews -- Bruce Metcalf -- Robert Mickelsen -- Tom Patti -- Mark Peiser -- Douglas Randall -- Kari Russell-Pool -- Judith Schaechter -- Michael Schunke -- Joyce J. Scott -- Sondra Sherman -- Michael Sherrill -- Mara Superior -- Patti Warishina -- David Willis -- Walter Zimmerman.