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  • horizontal grid of photos of children holding up handmade prints featuring rivers lakes hearts trees and words in cursive script

    On This Land Where We Belong

    Artist, writer, arts activist, and cultural community organizer Shanai Matteson explores how creative expression and activism shape the world we live in—and make kin.
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    Dina Nur Satti

    The pivotal moment for Dina Nur Satti came early. She had been taking ceramics classes for less than a year, at a Manhattan pottery studio, when she shared her first mugs and tumblers with her father.
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    The Queue: Sandra & Wence Martinez

    Sandra and Wence Martinez have been working together for decades in a true artistic partnership. Sandra is a symbolist painter. Wence is a weaver with ancestral roots in Oaxaca, Mexico. He weaves the patterns in her paintings. Together they make up Martinez Studio. They both share what kinship means to them, what their go-to tool is in their toolkit, and much more in The Queue.
  • portrait of a man and women smiling and seated against and clay colored wall with black and white weaving hung on it

    Kindred

    The magical, meaningful collaboration of Wence and Sandra Martinez.
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    Fond Farewell

    Outgoing executive director Sarah Schultz reflects on her tenure at the American Craft Council and the value of craft in her own life.
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    More Than a Plate

    Ceramist Gregg Moore collaborates with chefs—and the land—to create custom dishes that reflect everything from sustainable farming to police brutality to the Chilean coastline.
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    The Queue: Giles Clement

    Giles Clement is a New York-based photographer who uses wet-plate methods to create his portrait work. He sees his photos as collaborative efforts telling the stories of his subjects only if they are open and willing to share. Giles lets us know which artists he's recently purchased work from, what's the biggest barrier he's had to break through as an artist, and more in The Queue.
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    Craft Happenings: Fall 2021

    Make this fall a season filled with craft. Here are 16 exhibitions and other events happening across the country for you to explore.
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    Q&A With Bisa Butler

    The textile artist shares about her sources of inspiration, her process, and the role kinship plays in it—as well as her sewing machine, “The Beast.”
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    The Queue: Amber Cowan

    Amber Cowan is a sculptural glass artist based in Philadelphia. Her work is based around the reuse and rejuvenation of American pressed glass. In this edition of The Queue read about Cowan's practice, what current exhibition she wants more people to know about, and how she stays grounded in her daily life.
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    Absence Made Present

    A novelist responds to the work of Diana Al-Hadid, who draws on rich historical and cultural archives to transform raw materials into an art of memory and possibility.
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