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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.
  • two models wearing garments made from colorful patchwork quilt with orange black red and earth tones

    Beloved Patches of Orange

    A fashion scholar reveals the story of a collaboration between the quilters of Gee’s Bend and designer Greg Lauren—and the power of color in quilts.
  • impressionistic oval painting depicting a sun shining down on a landscape with a pond. There's a face in the pond and the landscape is catching fire

    [Object As...] Alex Anderson

    Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator.
  • shiny black ceramic vessel with coiled texture and various shapes on the surface

    [Object As...] Ebitenyefa Baralaye

    Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator.
  • Paper sculpture of two houses one red and one black connected by a red string

    [Object As...] Bukola Koiki

    Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator.
  • wooden sculpture reminscent of a paddle or brush

    [Object As...] James Maurelle

    Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator.
  • ceramic sculpture of upside-down head with flowers leaves and dragonflies adhered to it

    [Object As...] Morel Doucet

    Learn how one of our six "Object As..." participants brought their object into being and what it means to them, followed by a note from the curator.
  • woodworker in studio looking away from camera and smiling while standing at bench with tools

    The Queue: Aspen Golann

    Aspen Golann is an artist and furniture maker blending early American furniture forms with sculpture and social practice. She's also an educator and the founder of The Chairmaker's Toolbox, a project that is amplifying and supporting the work of underrepresented artists in the woodworking field. In The Queue she shares about the questions that drive her personal practice—as well as some of her "artist crushes!"
  • model wearing japanese inspired orange yellow and navy clothing walking up dusty grassy hill

    Cloth Encounters

    Meet American artists and designers who are using the rich, resonant vocabulary of textiles to say things we need to hear.
  • grayscale photo of a woodworker splitting a log in the back of a truck

    Maker: Aspen Golann

    Near Boston one afternoon, Aspen Golann is hunting for a log. “You have me on a log day,” she says, explaining that she will carve the felled specimen into a replica of a 1770s settee, at Colonial Williamsburg’s annual Working Wood in the 18th Century conference. “It’s about as nerdy as it gets.”
  • dome shaped ceramic shelter with hands prying open the door from the inside

    Craft Happenings: Spring 2022

    The craft field is flourishing this spring with new exhibitions, exciting conversations, and more. Here are 29 events happening across the country for you to explore.
  • handmade gold necklace inlaid with fragments of a shattered car window

    Maker: Tracey Beale

    Much like the jewelry of ancient Egypt, a source of inspiration for Beale and where jewelry was also believed to be spiritually charged, the shapes she incorporates into her collections each have their own meaning.
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Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition