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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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A New Model for Craft Makers—Brought on by Instagram
Nearly 12 years have passed since October 2010 when Instagram was launched as a photo-sharing social media application on Apple’s mobile operating system. In this time, the app has powerfully influenced the world of craft in key ways. -
The Queue: Rachel David
Rachel David is a North Carolina–based blacksmith and sculptor whose heavily textured metalwork is featured in our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, she shares the joys of working in a new place, her many art crushes, and the tools that make her work possible. -
The Queue: Drew Cameron
Drew Cameron is based in Iowa City, where he makes paper from military uniforms. In The Queue, he shares about the camaraderie and perspective he finds with other veterans, his favorite papermaking tool, and where he likes to buy paper goods. -
[Visionaries in Craft] Nest
Inspired by Muhammad Yunus’s work microlending to small businesses, in 2006 the 24-year-old Rebecca van Bergen, armed with a master’s degree in social work, decided to aid female craft artisans globally “beyond the creation of small debt,” as she puts it. -
[Visionaries in Craft] The Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths
For centuries, blacksmithing in America has had a macho-white-guy image. But not all blacksmiths are cisgender Caucasian men. -
[Visionaries in Craft] Crafting Diversity, Berea College
Founded in 1855 as the first coeducational, interracial college in the South, Berea College has a proud tradition of equity. It has also been committed to craft since the late 19th century. -
[Visionaries in Craft] The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
Throughout American history Black craftspeople, free and enslaved, have too often labored in total obscurity. But the patient work of Tiffany Momon and her colleagues is bringing these makers to public awareness, one name at a time. -
[Visionaries in Craft] Craft Equity
The creators of Craft Equity identify themselves as an anonymous group of queer and racially diverse craft artists who exhibit and teach internationally. -
[Visionaries in Craft] CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund)
For years, when craft artists suffered major setbacks, colleagues would support their recovery by passing the hat at American Craft Council fairs. However, for glass artist Josh Simpson, ceramicist Marylyn Dintenfass, and Carol Sedestrom Ross, this wasn’t good enough. -
[Visionaries in Craft] The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Crafts
The Eliot School inspires lifelong learning in craft and creativity for all. -
[Visionaries in Craft] Badass Cross Stitch
Badass Cross Stitch, says Shannon Downey, “is not an organization or a team—it’s just me.” -
[Visionaries in Craft] African American Craft Initiative
“As a senior curator, folklorist, and textile artist,” says Diana Baird N’Diaye, PhD, lead curator and developer of the AACI, “I noticed that throughout the craft sector African Americans were grossly underrepresented and underdocumented.