American Craft recently visited the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. As we entered, we were delighted to find gallery guide Nili Baider just beginning a tour. She took us straight to Canadian artist Shary Boyle’s recent Outside the Palace of Me exhibition.

Kandy G Lopez stitches mesmerizing, bold portraits of people of color. In The Queue, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida–based multimedia artist shares about her favorite place to get materials, the qualities that draw her to a portrait subject, and a fascinating Miami fiber art exhibition.

This spring, awaken the senses with these 22 craft exhibitions and events across the country, organized by the month in which they begin.

The Crafty Librarian on the 1967 Made With Paper exhibition in New York City.

Jason Preston on becoming an appraiser, the Antiques Roadshow scene, and how to put a price on inherited jewelry.

These four contemporary ceramists make vessels worthy of any tea ceremony you’d care to invent.

Tom Fruin turns found materials into vivid public sculptures. In The Queue, the Brooklyn-based sculptor shares about the discarded items that find their way into his work, his favorite tools, and two visionary South American artists with recent shows in New York.

The author of Worn: A People’s History of Clothing traces the story of wool, from Mesopotamia to Wyoming to a small weaving mill in upstate New York.

Ian Alistair Cochran casts resin in a new light. In The Queue, the Chicago-based artist shares about the tool that enables him to create perfectly smooth resin, his experiments with new-to-him materials, and the elemental appeal of light.

Founded by two craftspeople, Kentucky-based Lost Art Press preserves and presents deep knowledge of hand tool woodworking.

Spotlights on the people and spaces that define craft in New Orleans.