Blog
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Craft Happenings: Fall 2023
Step into fall with these 23 craft exhibitions and events around the country, organized by the month in which they start. -
Craft Happenings: Summer 2023
Make craft part of your summer plans with these 25 events and exhibitions happening across the country, organized by the month in which they start.
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Remembering: Garry Knox Bennett
Furniture maker and American Craft Council Fellow Garry Knox Bennett died unexpectedly on January 28, 2022, at the age of 87. -
The Scholar's Stone
Exploring Oregon rivers and the tradition of suiseki -
Remembering: Nancy McNeil
With sadness we recognize the passing of Nancy M. McNeil, who died on January 18, 2022. She was an ardent supporter of the field of contemporary American craft both in her home city of Philadelphia and in the national arena. -
Revealed
Matthew Nafranowicz and the secret craft of upholstery -
Remembering: William Daley
Ceramic artist, educator, and ACC Gold Medalist William Daley died on January 16, 2022, at his home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He was 96 years old. -
The Queue: Tracey Beale
Tracey Beale creates metal jewelry and copper wall art that she describes as modern relics. Beale's interest in African artifacts and articles of adornment informs a lot of her work. In The Queue she shares what medium has been a major source of finding beauty, what go-to tool she uses to create texture in her jewelry, and more. -
Tufting Magic
From Instagram to #RugTikTok—the rug-making corner of the platform, naturally—rug tufting has gone viral. -
Rock Shop
A stone carver’s ode to his Baltimore studio -
The Queue: Kristy Kún
Kristy Kún is an Oregon-based fiber artist who, having studied engineering and after a career as a woodworker, has turned her focus to sculptural compositions in handmade felt. In The Queue she shares her surprising and insightful go-to tool and lets us know whose work she's inspired by. -
Metamorphosis
Working with everything from seed pods to pasta and porcupine quills, Melissa Meier transforms nature’s materials into fantastical works of art. -
Assembling California: Imprinted
Bay Area–based ceramic artist Ashwini Bhat will show around a dozen small ceramic objects under the rubric Imprinted. -
The Queue: Matthew Nafranowicz
European-trained traditional upholsterer living in Madison, Wisconsin, Matthew Nafranowicz is the furniture artist behind Straight Thread Chair Co. In The Queue, he shares what terrifying yet effective 18th-century tool he uses in his practice, what installation and spoon carving artists' he's inspired by, and more!