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Free To Read10 ACC Stories to Feed Your Spirit as You Build Community Through Craft
Craft, in all its forms and fullness, isn’t a fair-weather nicety. It is a constellation of practices and values that deepen our humanity and reflect it back to us, and foster the person-to-person bonds on which communities and societies depend.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Kristin Colombano
Ancient technique and dreamy landscapes collide in Kristin Colombano’s painterly felted textiles.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Leah Woods
Leah Woods’s work with the New Hampshire Furniture Masters has brought her from galleries to prison classrooms.
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Free To ReadUnderstanding the Field
A new essay by Jenni Sorkin considers the Center for Craft’s impactful Craft Research Fund.
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Free To ReadJoyce Lin Wins 2025 John D. Mineck Fellowship
Houston-based Joyce Lin's uncanny furniture forms have earned her a prestigious fellowship from the John D. Mineck Foundation.
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Free To ReadTreasures from the Collection
A cataloger for the American Craft Council Archives reflects on her long, strange trip through two decades of magazine back issues.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Cait Nolan
For natural dyer and quilter Cait Nolan, creation follows nature’s rhythms. In The Queue, the New Jersey–based artist discusses the cadence of her work, the power of collaboration and asking for help, and learning from an indigo-dyeing master.
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Free To ReadAnother Dimension
Ceramist Jolie Ngo is creating intricate, ebullient work that brings together craft and emerging technology.
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