Do you consider yourself a crafter or an artist?

every crafter is an artist, i consider me an srtist specially when i am looking at my finish product. i am not good in painting but it do crafts like cross stitch and a weave basket using old news paper. so i consider myself an artist in my own right and if people appreciates what i do then i became more proud of the artist side of me.

I would argue that I am both for some of my projects I consider myself to be a crafter--like crocheting for example. But for cross-stitching and my writing, I consider myself to be an artist.

Gee, I'm not always sure on that one. People in my community have always called me an artist, and refer to most of my work as art. When I do glass etching, painting, and things like that, I consider it an art project. Yet when I do twig furniture, sewing, rug making, and that sort of thing I consider it more a craft project than an art. I always thought of myself as an artisan (which is by definition: a skilled manual worker or a craftsperson) I looked it up in the dictionary lol. It defines a craft as a skill in doing or making something, as in the arts. An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry. Also, to make by hand. They give the definition of art as human works of beauty, something of aesthetic value, etc. See, this confuses me, because really, isn't 'art' the exact same thing?! Yet for some reason when the word craft is mentioned, people always think of somebody making things that are sold at the church fundraiser, or at the PTA fair hahaha. In reality, I think like you do on it, crafters are also artists...and artists work at their craft, so I'm thinking too they are basically the same thing.

I think any crafter is an artist....I paint on windows and people call me an artist....designing and making quilts has to be done by an artist.....but I know what you mean.....I was with my sisters once and we went to a quilt show....I told them we had just been to an art show..they said I was right but they had never considered quilting as an art form.

Well now, I find myself to be just me. I'm not a crafter by any means and I don't dabble in paint so I'm not an artist. In my opinion though their is a diference, in that even so the person who paints on chair uses art supplies, they are doing so on a piece of furniture and thus are making it unique, crafting it to their own standards or simply taste. So wherein you may consider a crafter to be artistic, they are still doing a craft, using objects other then that of a paint, easel and brush and making it their own! So that's my two cents!

I consider myself an artisan. I am not a fine artist who creates paintings on canvas or works with sculpture or any other stylized fine art medium. My stuff is above basic level crafts however and more polished than the average home made item. It is a category commonly referred to as fine craft though there is much debate on what is and isn't art. I would agree to an extent that fine art has a certain level of credential and skill involved with it.

I too agree. I did alot of painting on furniture with as much detail as anyone would on canvas, and then had this "friend" tell me this other friend of hers was a "real artist" Got off with me! I don't really care about the title, but I think that when the work involved is the same whether on wood or canvas, it should not be discounted as not as valuable!