Interviews & Profiles
Inspiration and practical insights from and about makers.
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The Queue: Kristy Moreno
Kristy Moreno’s clay sculptures of future ancestors are avatars of a better tomorrow.
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The Queue: Kristin Colombano
Ancient technique and dreamy landscapes collide in Kristin Colombano’s painterly felted textiles.
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The Queue: Leah Woods
Leah Woods’s work with the New Hampshire Furniture Masters has brought her from galleries to prison classrooms.
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The Queue: Cait Nolan
For natural dyer and quilter Cait Nolan, creation follows nature’s rhythms. In The Queue, the New Jersey–based artist discusses the cadence of her work, the power of collaboration and asking for help, and learning from an indigo-dyeing master.
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The Queue: Felicia Greenlee
Felicia Greenlee carves and chisels images of social change in her layered narrative wood collages. In The Queue, the Seneca, South Carolina–based artist shares about the craft community in South Carolina, the skills she gained as a textile designer, and a traveling exhibition featuring her work.
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The Queue: Nosheen Iqbal
Nosheen Iqbal foregrounds Pakistani and Islamic art in her entrancing embroidery-on-wood compositions. In The Queue, the Dallas-based artist and designer chats about CraftTexas 2025, developing clients in the corporate and hospitality worlds, and two contemporary events pushing Islamic and South Asian art forward.
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The Queue: Samantha Briegel
Samantha Briegel’s fashion-inspired porcelain vessels dazzle with patterns and textures. In The Queue, the Maryland-based ceramist talks about how she creates her work, her favorite slow fashion designers, and what she’s looking forward to at this year’s American Pottery Festival in Minneapolis.
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Runway Ready
Metalsmith Thomas Bliven crafts handmade accessories for top-tier clothing labels and the celebrities who make their fashions memorable.
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The Queue: Dawn Williams Boyd
Dawn Williams Boyd fashions recycled textiles into powerful paintings in cloth. In The Queue, the Atlanta-based textile artist talks about her family’s dedication to the handmade, the extensive list of tools that make her work possible, and the importance of senior art programs.
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Slow Style: Punch Needle Fashion
Micah Clasper-Torch brings fashion sense to the punch needle revival.
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All Dressed Up
Inspired by textiles, ceramist Samantha Briegel adorns her work like a stylist.
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From Canvas to Carving
Felicia Greenlee transforms wood into layered narratives that challenge history, celebrate Black identity, and spark conversation through texture and form.
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The Rhythm of Adornment
Massachusetts woodworker Charles Thompson astutely pairs fanciful carving and expert joinery in green wood furniture.
Fall 2025
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Tufted Joy
With wool dyed to match her imagination’s palette, Melissa Monroe creates rugs, furniture-inspired sculptures, and objects filled with life.
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Ceramic Surrounds
Ben Medansky, a former production potter, creates bespoke wall art for clients around the world.
Fall 2025
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From What’s Left Behind
Household objects from antique stores and estate sales are transformed and reimagined in MJ Tyson’s sculptural work.
Fall 2025
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The Queue: Ato Ribeiro
Ato Ribeiro’s works in wood dazzle with pattern and texture. In The Queue, the Atlanta-based sculptor and multimedia artist shares about being surrounded by craft in Ghana, why he uses wood in his work, and the challenges and delights of working with different wood species.
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The Queue: Bill and Shannen Oyster
Bill and Shannen Oyster of Oyster Bamboo craft masterful bamboo fly-fishing rods—and pass along the skills to make them.
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The Queue: Lehuauakea
Lehuauakea’s expansive kapa practice bridges traditional Native Hawaiian knowledge and contemporary ways of being.
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The Queue: Kelsie Rudolph
Kelsie Rudolph’s ceramic furniture balances the hard and the soft.
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The Hard and the Soft
Kelsie Rudolph makes ceramic chairs, benches, lamps, and side tables prized by a Los Angeles designer and a Paris gallery.
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A Slow, Sustainable Yarn
The creative team at Merida abandoned manufacturing to create small-batch, handmade rugs that embody artistic ambition.
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A Place of Refuge
Washington sculptor and furniture maker Kevin Reiswig finds inspiration growing in his backyard.
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Fishing for Perfection
The makers at Oyster Bamboo construct custom-made fly rods that are as beautiful as they are expertly engineered.
Summer 2025
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