Dr. Sandra Alfoldy is Professor of Craft History at NSCAD University and Associate Curator of Fine Craft at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She is the author of The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft (2012), Crafting Identity (2005), editor of NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts (2007), and is co-editor with Janice Helland of Craft, Space and Interior Design (2008). She curated the Canadian Craft exhibition at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, and co-curated with Rachel Gotlieb 2007’s On the Table.  She received her Ph.D. from Concordia University in 2001. Her new research project “Craft and Popular Culture” is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.