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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Craft Happenings: Summer 2022
Is it summer already? Now's the time to fill out your calendar with craft exhibitions, symposiums, festivals, and more. Here are 25 events happening across the country for you to check out, organized by the month in which they start. -
The Queue: Angel Yoon Kyung Cho
Based in Barcelona, Angel Yoon Kyung Cho is a graphic designer and ceramist whose writing about Korean yugi bronzeware and family ritual appears in our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, she shares her methods for staying grounded, her unusual drawing tools, and an artist she admires. -
Wearing the Truth
With her sculpted paper dresses, Fabiola Jean-Louis unflinchingly confronts history and imagines Black futures. -
The Queue: Tina Fossella
Tina Fossella is a ceramist based in Mill Valley, California. Her bright, simple berry bowl is featured in the Market section of our Summer 2022 issue, and she’ll also be an exhibitor in our upcoming American Craft Made / Baltimore online marketplace! In The Queue, she shares how her work is informed by the spiritual and sacred, how she connects with customers, and what she’s been reading. -
The Fashion Factor
Far from being frivolous or merely superficial, fashion offers insights into social norms and identity that can inform craft practice. -
The Queue: Gabriel Frey
Based in Orono, Maine, and featured in the Market section of our Spring 2022 issue, basket artist Gabriel Frey weaves black ash into elegant carryalls. In The Queue he shares about a new pursuit, a chef and a writer who are working to shine a light on Indigenous traditions, and what's on his reading, listening, and watching lists. -
The Connector
Visionary artist Sonya Clark fashions artworks—cosmic, spiritual, and sociopolitical—with the help of many hands. -
American Craft Council Announces Andrea Specht As Its New Executive Director
Please welcome our new Executive Director as she joins at an exciting time in our organization's history. -
From Discarded To Maximized
Our obsession with stuff is a problem. Nicole McLaughlin demonstrates how it could also be a solution. -
The Queue: Rhiannon Griego
Based in Santa Fe, Rhiannon Griego is one of nine textile artists featured in our Spring 2022 issue who are "grappling with issues of environmental, economic, and social sustainability." In The Queue she shares about finding beauty in paradox and steadiness in change—and gives a shoutout to another textile artist whose work she'd love to own. -
The Object in Its Place: As Designed by Ted Cohen
The Museum of Craft and Design is especially proud to present a distinctive, celebratory exhibition honoring the extraordinary exhibition designer Ted Cohen (1928–2021). -
The Queue: Shae Bishop
Shae Bishop is a North Carolina–based ceramic and fiber artist who makes sculptural garments that he displays with photographs of himself wearing the pieces in specific environments. In The Queue Shae shares how fashion and history inform his craft, what he's been reading, and about two artists whose work he admires.