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  • Nigerian artist Layo Bright’s Adebisi VII, 2020, kiln-formed glass, 11.5 x 11.5 x 3 in., appears alongside glass artworks from a global group of Black artists in A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists at the Museum of Glass. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

    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.
  • Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger invited members of the public to embroider bandanas for Each/Other, 2021, approx. 12 x 20 x 9 ft., part of Sharing the Same Breath at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

    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.
  • Michelle Williams, in Kelly Reichardt’s new film Showing Up.

    New Releases

    Kelly Reichardt's new film Showing Up; books about your brain on art, artist and designer Rogan Gregory, and British studio pottery; and glass podcast Cracked with Chevonne Ariss.

  • Amy Denet Deal stands at the entrance to 4KINSHIP, which she opened in Santa Fe in 2022. Photo by Wade Adakai.

    For the Future

    An Indigenous-owned retail space on Santa Fe’s famous Canyon Road, 4KINSHIP supports Native makers—and communities.
  • Jeff Neil in his Tennessee workshop. Photo courtesy of the artist.

    The Queue: Jeff Neil

    Jeff Neil melds two traditional craft forms—Shaker boxes and quilts—into delightful wooden boxes and trays meant to be used. In The Queue, the Tennessee-based woodworker shares about the box that first captivated him, his workhorse plane, and a fellow Tennessean who is a masterful chair maker.

  • Claire Oliver (left) with artist Simone Elizabeth Saunders, whose Unearthing Unicorns exhibition was held recently at Claire Oliver Gallery.

    Come On In

    In Harlem, Claire Oliver Gallery seeks a more inclusive and equitable approach to cultivating collectors.
  • Jiha Moon in her painting studio. For her new still life series, Moon mounted Korean mulberry paper, or hanji, on canvas, then used ink and acrylic to paint symbolic icons including the peach, peony flowers, and haetae, a Korean mythical creature that protects family and loved ones.

    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.
  • Tali Weinberg weaving with plant- and insect-dyed cotton in her former studio. Photo by Melissa Luckenbaugh.

    The Queue: Tali Weinberg

    Tali Weinberg weaves natural and petrochemical-derived materials into elegant textiles in response to pressing social issues. In The Queue, the Illinois-based artist shares details about her favorite loom, how she combines the personal and the political in her work, and five poignant works about climate change.

  • Dorothy Saxe sitting with some of her craft collection. BUST: Robert Arneson, A Hollow Jesture, 1971, glazed ceramic, 20.25 x 12.5 x 14 in. NECKLACE: Pal and Lumi Kepenyes, untitled necklace, ca. 1985, brass, 11 x 4.5 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of Craig Lee/The Examiner.

    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.
  • Tyrrell Tapaha weaving. Photo courtesy of Bill Hatcher.

    The Queue: Tyrrell Tapaha

    Tyrrell Tapaha entwines elements of agro-pastoral living and Diné weaving into dazzling textiles. In The Queue, the Flagstaff, Arizona–based sheepherder and fiber artist shares about their free-flowing process, their cherished tools, and a new exhibition on Diné textiles in Santa Fe.

  • Portrait of Jim Melchert. Photo: Michael Malinski

    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.
  • Marjorie Schick's Necklace, 1993, painted papier-mâché, 18.75 x 20.25 x 4.5 in.

    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.
  • A pile of Elle Barbeito’s belts made from vegetable-tanned leather, Burmese python skin, waxed cotton thread, and vintage buckles.

    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.”
  • Buyers attend a Bonhams auction in London.

    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.”
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Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition