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  • John Hermanson playing a guitar.

    The Queue: John Hermanson

    John Hermanson of Limber Bows has crafted a new kind of hiking pole. In The Queue, the Bozeman, Montana–based maker and musician recommends his favorite handcrafted gear, describes a unique tool for his work, and tells us about the summer festivals in his hometown.

  • Windchime made of clay in browns and blacks.

    The Sounds of Summer

    With the window open on a warm afternoon, you might hear someone practicing piano down the street, chirping birds gathered in a tree, cars honking at an intersection, or children laughing over a game of soccer in the park. Perhaps you’ll also hear wind chimes, their soft rhythmic ringing letting you know a refreshing breeze is on the way.
  • Renwick Megaplanet - glass sphere with blues, greens, and pinks creating various textures.

    The Glass Alchemist

    It all started with a seemingly endless stream of eighth graders who swarmed his studio every Wednesday for the glass-blowing demonstrations he’d agreed to do. “They weren’t the least bit interested in me or goblets,” Simpson says. But who wasn’t astounded by the recent Apollo 8 mission photos of Earth rising behind the moon, like a little blue marble with white swirls?
  • Portrait Tilke Elkins

    The Queue: Tilke Elkins

    For Tilke Elkins, wild pigments contain radical possibilities—for equity, for our relationship with place, and for art. In The Queue, the Oregon-based artist and founder of Wild Pigment Project shares about her first time working with wild pigments, the endless usefulness of rocks, and her favorite conversations from her newsletter Pied Midden.

  • Nike of the Strait, a site-specific sculpture along the Detroit Riverwalk.

    The Scene: Craft in Detroit

    Detroit has risen, fallen, and risen again. Situated along the Detroit River, which connects Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and creates a section of the US–Canada border, the city is known as the birthplace of Motown Records and Ford Motor Company, the home of Robert Graham’s Monument to Joe Louis bronze fist sculpture, and the site of the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in American history.
  • Emmett Moberly-LaChance presses the midsole layer to the upper of the boot.

    Adventure Craft

    For most of human history, we lived, worked, and played outdoors. But over the past century or so, we’ve come to spend less time outside and more time in—over 90 percent of our day, by some estimates. A quarter of Americans never leave the house at all during the day.
  • So Young Park in her studio.

    The Queue: So Young Park

    So Young Park looks to nature for inspiration for her wild, exuberant jewelry. In The Queue, the metalsmith, who recently returned home to South Korea after many years in the US, shares about her creative process, how her tools bring joy to her practice, and some new techniques and materials she hopes to incorporate into her work.

  • Clay work in multiple colors in a  circular sculpture.

    Wild Style

    Wild Style. Brie Ruais works fast, separating a hunk of clay that weighs as much as she does into slashes and craters, decorating it with handprints and smudges.
  • Alison Elizabeth Taylor working in her studio.

    Painting with Wood

    Marquetry hybrid is a synthesis of painting, collage, photography, and wood veneer marquetry on panel. It is a slow and painstaking process. Hours of tedium are gobbled up; days drip away into weeks, months. Often work must be thrown out and attempted again when something doesn’t go right due to technical or aesthetic challenges.
  • Cynthia Lahti headshot

    The Queue: Cynthia Lahti

    In Kelly Reichardt’s new film, Showing Up, Cynthia Lahti’s figurative sculptures steal the show. In this special edition of The Queue, we spoke to Portland, Oregon–based Lahti about how she became involved in the film, what she taught star Michelle Williams about ceramics, and how the obsessive pursuit of beauty makes for great movies.

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