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  • Portrait of Amanda McCavour posing against a desk in a studio with embroideries hanging on the walls

    The Queue: Amanda McCavour

    Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. Learn more about her work, what she considers to be her biggest challenges in her career, and see which contemporary artists' Amanda is currently inspired and excited by.
  • A shed-like artist studio with tall humanoid wooden sculptures

    Returning

    An artist steps into the studio of sculptor Randy Takaki and comes away changed.
  • portrait of a woman seated on a stool in a plain room beside an unlit fireplace with various ceramic pieces arranged on the sill

    The Queue: Dina Nur Satti

    Based in New York City, Dina Nur Satti is the artist behind Nur Ceramics and is the featured maker in the the Fall 2021 issue of American Craft. In this week's Queue post, Dina reflects on the ethereal side of creative practice and learnings from the past year, and shares about the scholars and artists who have influenced her work.
  • Person in black tshirt shaping hot glass as part of a demonstration in a workshop with onlookers

    Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience

    Seattle and its environs are the heartland of art glass in America, and this heritage will be on display when the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum joins Visit Seattle, Pilchuck, and a host of galleries and artists to present the third annual Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience.
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    The Queue: Amy Weiks & Gabriel Craig

    Amy Weiks and Gabriel Craig are the co-founders of Smith Shop, a dynamic, craft-centric metalworking studio based in Detroit. Amy shares a goldmine of new podcasts for you to check out to stay inspired, and Gabriel details which body of work best reflects our Fall issue's theme of "Kinship". See their book recommendations and more in this installment of The Queue.
  • horizontal grid of photos of children holding up handmade prints featuring rivers lakes hearts trees and words in cursive script

    On This Land Where We Belong

    Artist, writer, arts activist, and cultural community organizer Shanai Matteson explores how creative expression and activism shape the world we live in—and make kin.
  • portrait of dina nur satti with various ceramic vessels

    Dina Nur Satti

    The pivotal moment for Dina Nur Satti came early. She had been taking ceramics classes for less than a year, at a Manhattan pottery studio, when she shared her first mugs and tumblers with her father.
  • two artists posing in their studio with weavings and symbolist paintings hanging on the walls

    The Queue: Sandra & Wence Martinez

    Sandra and Wence Martinez have been working together for decades in a true artistic partnership. Sandra is a symbolist painter. Wence is a weaver with ancestral roots in Oaxaca, Mexico. He weaves the patterns in her paintings. Together they make up Martinez Studio. They both share what kinship means to them, what their go-to tool is in their toolkit, and much more in The Queue.
  • portrait of a man and women smiling and seated against and clay colored wall with black and white weaving hung on it

    Kindred

    The magical, meaningful collaboration of Wence and Sandra Martinez.
  • portrait of sarah schultz

    Fond Farewell

    Outgoing executive director Sarah Schultz reflects on her tenure at the American Craft Council and the value of craft in her own life.
  • salad inside of a glass orb on a cement platter with carved letters and impressions

    More Than a Plate

    Ceramist Gregg Moore collaborates with chefs—and the land—to create custom dishes that reflect everything from sustainable farming to police brutality to the Chilean coastline.
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