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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New Releases
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For the Future
An Indigenous-owned retail space on Santa Fe’s famous Canyon Road, 4KINSHIP supports Native makers—and communities. -
The Queue: Jeff Neil
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Come On In
In Harlem, Claire Oliver Gallery seeks a more inclusive and equitable approach to cultivating collectors. -
The Night Owl Downstairs
A Korean painter, printmaker, and ceramic artist has created and collected in her Atlanta basement studios for seven years while family life proceeded upstairs. -
The Queue: Tali Weinberg
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The Consummate Collector
Along with her late husband George, Dorothy Saxe built friendships with artists while collecting their work. At age 97, she reflects on her love of craft. -
The Queue: Tyrrell Tapaha
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Remembering: Jim Melchert
We remember ACC Honorary Fellow Jim Melchert, a beloved educator in the Bay Area and an artist renowned for his experimental approach to ceramics as a material and other media. He died on June 1, 2023 at the age of 92. -
Wild at Heart
For this issue, the Crafty Librarian dove into the nearly 4,000 artist files in the ACC Library & Archives and discovered that these two artists in particular spent their careers developing and showing their wild sides. -
Second Skins
Elle Barbeito transforms the skins of invasive Burmese pythons into materials for furniture and fashion. The first time she skinned a Burmese python, she made each move carefully. “Layer by layer, I could see all the connections within it. It was fascinating, and a little gross, but also really beautiful at the same time.” -
The Hammer Price
Last July in Los Angeles, a stoneware vessel depicting Popeye the Sailor Man, made in 1987 by artists Magdalena and Michael Frimkess, sold at a Bonhams auction for $65,895. Everyone was shocked, especially the auctioneer. “That was several times the estimated range,” says Jason Stein, Bonhams’s director of Modern Decorative Art and Design. “In the early ’90s, when I got my start, it would have sold in the low thousands or even upper hundreds.”