Numbers
8 mm (film type)
16 mm (film type)
3-D, three-dimensional
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A
a while (2 words: obj. of preposition); awhile (1 wd: adverb)
ACT UP - no need to spell out, but should be in all caps
aesthetic
African American (no hyphen unless adjective)
aha
antebellum
archaeology
the Archive Project (Visual AIDS)
Area (club)
Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard
Art AIDS America (exhibition)
art-making
artwork
Ashanti
avant-garde
B
back and forth (adv); back-and-forth (n, adj)
backtrack (1 word)
baisse taille
Ballroom scene
balsa wood
band saw (2 words.)
basket maker
Bay Area
bentwood
bicentennial
Black C.A.R.E. (Black Community AIDS Research and Education)
blow job (two words)
blowpipe
body monitors
boxwood
Boy Scouts; scouting, scout leader; Boy Scout leader
brand-new
brush plate
buttonhole (1 word)
C
cabinetmaker (1 word)
camel hair (or camel's hair)
candleholder
candlestick
catalogue
Catch One (club, LA)
chain saw
champleve (1 word)
chest of drawers
china paint
chinoiserie (lowercase)
chokin
Christie's
civil rights movement (lowercase)
Club Fuck!
coal miner (2 words.)
ColorCore
copy editor / copyedit
counterculture
craftsman
crosshatch (v, n)
cross-hatching (n)
cuff links (2 words.)
custom-made
cut out (v, 2 words)
cutout (n, adj)
D
da Vinci
Dahoumey
damascene
Damascus steel
dango
de Kooning
decision making (n, 2 words)
Depression
die-in
dinnerware
disc (for recording)
"documenta" when referring to the series of exhibitions; "documenta 7" or whatever number when referring to a specific exhibition.
drywall
Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!)
E
Early American
earthwork
East Coast (but going east, eastern)
Ecstasy (capitalized; recreational drug)
electro + process (1 wd., electroplate, etc.)
eye-opener
F
Fahrenheit
faience
fall-front (desk)
feminist movement
fiberglass
fierce pussy (all lowercase)
Fiesta (ware)
fine-tune
firebox
fire-glazed
firsthand
flatware
flossa
fly-shuttle loom
free-form
freelance
freestanding (1 word)
fresco, -oes
Fulbright Program (various awards within)
full time (n)(rarely encountered), usually full-time (adj/adv)
fund-raising
furniture maker
G
gay-bashing
gemstone
GI Bill (no periods)
glassblower
glassmaker
GMAD (Gay Men of African Descent)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis)
God, goddam (n,v), goddamed (adj, adv)
gold leaf (n, 2 words.)
gold medal (lowercase)
Gran Fury (artist collective)
gray (not grey)
GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Gump's
H
hairpin (1 word)
hand-blown
hand-building, hand-built
handcrafted (1 word)
hand-forging
handmade
hand-make
hand-quilted
handsaw
hands-on
hand-spun
handweaver, handwoven
hardwood (1 word)
high chair (2 words)
high tech
high-rise
HIV government assistance programs (spell out in brackets)
HIV-positive
hollowware
honan
HOWL! Festival
I
iCI (Independent Curators International, NY)
ikat
ikebana
Imari
internet (lowercase)
ironwork, glasswork, etc.
J
jacquard (fabric)
Jacquard loom (named after inventor)
jewelry maker (2 words.)
jigsaw (1 word)
K
Kaposi sarcoma, Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV)
karat
kente
kilnload
L
LA (not L.A.) (with exceptions)
La MaMa
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
lace making (2 words.)
Le Palace (club, Paris)
lengthwise
Lesbian Herstory Archives
LGBT Center (cap C, NYC)
life-size(d)
lifetime
linocut
long-range
long-standing
long-term
longtime
lost wax, lost-wax process
low-fire
low-tech
Lucite
lumberyard (1 word)
M
MacArthur Fellowship
makara
mange
man-made
mass-produced, mass production
mat (n,v) (around a picture)
matte (nonglossy finish)
medium (mediums is plural for materials; media is "mode of expression")
metalsmith, metalworker
MicroGeneSys
mid-'70s
Midwest, but midwestern
mingei
Mission District
MOCA
mock-up
model making (2 words.)
mokume gane
MoMA
MSM (Men having Sex with Men or Men Seeking Men) (also WSW)
Mylar
N
NEA grant, fellowship (unless titled)
niello
nunome-zogan (per MFA, Boston)
O
October (journal)
off and on (adv; hyphenate if adj; ditto one of a kind, one on one, etc.)
okay (not OK or ok)
open-minded
Oribe
Oriental
P
palate (taste)
palette (colors)
Palladium (club)
pallet (bed)
paper cord
papermaking (1 word)
part-time (adj)
Ph.D., B.A.
photo + technique =1 word., photogravure, (but photo etch)
Plexiglas
plique-à-jour (accent grave over "a")
postwar
pottery-making
Prescription drug names (especially if obscure) add "[prescription drug]"
Printmaking
PS1
Pyramid Club
Q
quilt maker, quilt making (2 words)
R
raku
ready-made
redwood
resume (no accents necessary)
Rhodes Scholar/Scholarship
rokusho
rolltop (1 word)
rosewood
round-over (except as verb, then two words, no hyphen)
rya
S
S/M, S and M if "and" is spoken (S-and-M if adjective)
salt glazing (n), salt-glazed (adj), salt-glaze (v)
sandblast(ing)
sapwood
sawmill
Scotch tape
S-curve
semiprecious
setup (n, 1 word)
shakudo
short-lived
short-term (unless n)
silk screen (n, 2 words.)
silk-screen (v & adj)
silkworm
sketchbook
slip-casting
SOFA (Sculptural Objects & Functional Art)
SoHo (with exceptions like an organization that doesn’t capitalize the "H")
Sotheby's (Parke-Bernet Galleries, '37-64; Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co, '64-70)
South, but southern
spell-check
Sperone Westwater
still life (2 words.; hyphenate for adj.)
still lifes
stoneware
strip piecing
Styrofoam
Super 8 (film type)
T
tabletop (1 word)
TAG (Treatment Action Group)
takaniku zogan
tape recorder (n, 2 words)
tape recording (n, 2 words)
tape-record (v)
T-cells
terra-cotta
The Kitchen (performance space)
The Marys
theater, not theatre
tie-dye
time frame (2 words)
time-consuming
time-out
tinfoil
tintype (1 word)
toolmaker, toolmaking (1 word)
Treatment and Data committee (precursor to TAG)
T-shirt
tulip tree
tulipwood
tussah
TV
U
ukiyo-e
underpainting
university-educated (adj)
university-trained (adj)
USA, DC, LA, Washington, D.C., U.S., U.K., the States
V
van Gogh
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
Voulkos's (for possessive)
W
WAC (Women's Action Coalition)
watercolor (1 word)
website, web, but World Wide Web
well known (adv)
well-known (adj)
West Coast (but west, western)
WHAM (Women's Health Action and Mobilization)
wheat paste (n, two words); wheat-paste (adj or verb)
wheel-thrown, wheel throwing
widespread
wide-spreading
women's movement
wood carving
wood turning (2 words., per Renwick)
woodblock (1 word)
wood-carver
woodcraft
woodcut
woodworking, woodwork, woodshop
workshop
wrought iron
X
xerox (lowercase), but Xerox machine
X-ray (n)
x-ray (v)
