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  • Stoneware and porcelain tableware by Miro Chun, 2022. Photo by Miro Chun.

    The Queue: Miro Chun

    With an architect’s eye, Miro Chun creates minimalist, functional tableware. In The Queue, the Phoenix, Arizona-based ceramist shares about the beauty in commonplace materials, the other artists in her family, and her dream collaboration.

  • String Theory Theater founder Dirk Joseph performs with a crankie. Photo courtesy of Creative Alliance.

    Hand-Turned Tales

    For centuries, craftspeople have created backlit moving scrolls to tell stories. Intimate and expressive, the “crankie” tradition is thriving thanks to a growing troupe of enthusiasts
  • At her loom textile and visual artist Amber M. Jensen weaves fine blue and ivory woolen threads into a classic Whig rose pattern.

    Immersed in Beauty

    A Minneapolis-based textile and visual artist describes finding inspiration and introspection in her warehouse studio during winter.
  • Sarah Zapata in her studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2023. Photo by Minnie Bennett.

    The Queue: Sarah Zapata

    Sarah Zapata weaves the many strands of her identity into colorful, cascading, textile installations. In The Queue, the Brooklyn-based fiber artist shares about a piece of textile art she first encountered as a teenager, the potential of fabric waste, and the joys of researching a site-specific installation in Kansas City.

  • Detail 1: Surviving as the anomaly created by white supremacy, 2021–2022—made by vanessa german, Ché Rhodes, and the collective Related Tactics—is part of the exhibition Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass. Photo courtesy of Related Tactics.

    Craft Happenings: Winter 2024

    This winter, warm up with these 18 events and exhibitions happening across the country, organized by the month in which they start.

  • Art by Vaughan Nelson of One Blue Marble

    Market: To Have and to Hold

    When you want to protect and honor special items—and keep track of them—handmade keepsake boxes are a beautiful solution. These four options, in ceramic and wood, offer a variety of styles and sizes for holding some of your most cherished possessions.
  • Misha Kahn. Photo by Joshua White, courtesy of Friedman Benda and Misha Kahn.

    The Queue: Misha Kahn

    Misha Kahn’s unrepentantly maximalist works use a dizzying array of materials and techniques to steamroll over the borders between craft, design, and sculpture. In The Queue, the Brooklyn-based designer and artist shares about the iconic craft artists whose works populate his home, the challenges of working with wood, and the alchemical magic of electroforming.

  • Stack of niche magazine covers.

    Niche Magazines

    Professional associations in the field of craft cover specific types of media and technique, and a good number of them produce magazines. The American Craft Council Library, which can be visited by appointment, holds nearly 100 periodical subscriptions, as well as myriad issues of publications no longer in print, most of them catering to specific areas of the craft field. ACC librarian Beth Goodrich highlights five such publications here, with a longer list (not exhaustive) of niche magazines below.
  • Misha Kahn's Harvest Moon. Photo by Timothy Doyon, courtesy of Friedman Benda and Misha Kahn.

    Assemblage

    Definitively maximalist and wildly inventive, designer and sculptor Misha Kahn uses all the traditional craft mediums, combining them in new and fantastical ways to create furniture, lighting, and sculpture.
  • Sophie Glenn with her tool cabinet, Anni Albers in the Black Lodge, 2019, various hardwoods, brass hardware, 36 x 24 x 14 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.

    The Queue: Sophie Glenn

    Sophie Glenn’s clever furniture isn’t what it appears to be. In The Queue, the Reading, Pennsylvania–based woodworker, metalworker, and furniture designer shares about her process, why she references pop culture in her work, and the challenges of converting traditional wood forms into metal.

  • Malone in his kiln shed and creative space working on the sculpture I Can Only Suggest, the Choices Are Yours. Photo by Steven M. Cummings.

    Pieces of Life

    Chris Malone’s elaborate clay and mosaic sculptures tell stories of spirituality and an unknown past.
  • Made from kiln-cast glass, Viviano’s Recasting Detroit, 2021, combines imagery from the city’s manufacturing past and its current urban landscape, 11 x 16.5 x 13.5 in. Photo by Tim Thayer /  RM Hensleigh.

    Seeing Is Believing

    After moving to Plainwell, Michigan, a town of about 4,000 residents on the banks of the Kalamazoo River, artist Norwood Viviano realized that nearly everyone he met had in some way been affected by the paper mill industry. The Plainwell Paper Mill, established in 1887, was the town’s beating heart until it declared bankruptcy and shuttered its plant two decades ago.
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