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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[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. -
[Visionaries in Craft] 99 Clay Vessels: The Muslim Women Storytelling Project
Seeking a fresh way to honor and support women who have experienced Islamophobia, multimedia artist and educator Alison Kysia crafted 99 differently shaped clay pots that represent asma al-husna, the 99 Beautiful Names of God in Islam. -
[Visionaries in Craft] Indigo Arts Alliance
Indigo Arts Alliance was founded in 2018 by marketing professional Marcia Minter and her husband, artist Daniel Minter—because, says Marcia, “we had experienced firsthand the marginalization of Black and brown artists.” -
The Assembler
Carin Jones has been working as a full-time artist for 11 years but still has a hard time calling herself one. “I don’t envision an idea and make it come to life,” says the jeweler who lives in Kingston, Washington, and whose work is inspired by the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. “I let the materials direct me." -
The Queue: Alice Fujii
Based in La Crescenta, California, Alice Fujii is a ceramist whose berry bowl is featured in the Market section of our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, she shares her favorite tool, a porcelain artist she admires, and the science fiction show she devoured during the pandemic. -
Vasylkiv Cockerel
After a high-rise building in Borodianka, Ukraine, collapsed under Russian shelling, journalist-photographer Elizaveta Servatyanska looked up and saw in the ruins an undamaged rooster-shaped ceramic jug atop a kitchen cabinet. -
Hip Hop Glassmaker
Leo Tecosky does more than make graffiti in glass—he captures the spirit of a cultural movement. -
The Queue: Thomas Little
Thomas Little is an ink and pigment maker based in North Carolina whose work transforming guns into ink is featured in our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, he shares his methods for decreasing harm in a violent world and his unusual collaboration with nature. -
Forging New Paths
Rachel David, Elizabeth Brim, and Ellen Durkan take artistic blacksmithing into new territory. -
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
A Renwick Gallery exhibition of craft that’s been overlooked. -
The Queue: Carin Jones
Carin Jones is the Washington-based jeweler behind Jonesing for Jewelry and a featured artist in the Summer 2022 issue of American Craft. In The Queue, she reflects on her zoological background, her favorite tool, and what she’s been watching. -
An Homage to Yugi
The bronze tableware that my Korean family filled with offerings to our ancestors nourishes me as an artist—and a human.
