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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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. -
The Energy of Kinship
How animism will reshape the way we design and make. -
Returning
An artist steps into the studio of sculptor Randy Takaki and comes away changed. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Kindred
The magical, meaningful collaboration of Wence and Sandra Martinez. -
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. -
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.