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: 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. -
The Queue: Beth Dow
Based in the Twin Cities, Beth Dow is the artisan behind Fieldwork Goods, a line of leather accessories made with traditional saddlery techniques and vegetable-tanned leather. In The Queue, Beth shares about the intention behind her work and how she balances her craft with a photography practice—with a shoutout to another leather artist she admires. -
Beloved Patches of Orange
A fashion scholar reveals the story of a collaboration between the quilters of Gee’s Bend and designer Greg Lauren—and the power of color in quilts. -
[Object As...] Alex Anderson
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
[Object As...] Ebitenyefa Baralaye
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
[Object As...] Bukola Koiki
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
[Object As...] Leandro Gómez Quintero
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
[Object As...] James Maurelle
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
[Object As...] Morel Doucet
Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator. -
The Queue: Aspen Golann
Aspen Golann is an artist and furniture maker blending early American furniture forms with sculpture and social practice. She's also an educator and the founder of The Chairmaker's Toolbox, a project that is amplifying and supporting the work of underrepresented artists in the woodworking field. In The Queue she shares about the questions that drive her personal practice—as well as some of her "artist crushes!" -
Cloth Encounters
Meet American artists and designers who are using the rich, resonant vocabulary of textiles to say things we need to hear. -
Maker: Aspen Golann
Near Boston one afternoon, Aspen Golann is hunting for a log. “You have me on a log day,” she says, explaining that she will carve the felled specimen into a replica of a 1770s settee, at Colonial Williamsburg’s annual Working Wood in the 18th Century conference. “It’s about as nerdy as it gets.”