Mary Lewis

Mary Lewis is Head of Craft Sustainability at Heritage Crafts. Her work focuses on the long-term viability of the most threatened crafts on the Red List, the makers practising them, and the routes by which crafts are passed from one generation to the next. She works Monday to Thursday noon. She holds, in working memory, a register of where the most fragile English craft practices currently sit and who is doing the work.

Mary supplied the introduction list that generated the six Heart of England outreach emails (including bowl turning, coppice work, and other Red List trades), which now form the spine of the August Heart of England trip. She subsequently connected TEA to Rob Wade, a peer photographer who has been working with HCA on endangered crafts for two years - a network introduction TEA needed to know about. She has also offered, on multiple occasions, to point the archive toward specific Red List makers in regions where TEA had no warm route in.