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A biweekly roundup for and by the craft community, The Queue introduces you to the artists, curators, organizers, and more featured in the current issue of American Craft. We invite these inspiring individuals to share personally about their lives and work as well as what's inspiring them right now.

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Portrait of Lily Fulop with mended pants and shorts

The Queue: Lily Fulop

Designer, writer, and visible mender Lily Fulop is featured in the Beauty issue of American Craft in "Beauty After Damage."
Jacob Quetant of Nature Boy with his family

The Queue: Jacob Quetant

Jacob Quetant, pictured with his family, is the designer, maker, and entrepreneur behind the men's beard and skincare brand Nature Boy and is featured in the August/September issue of American Craft.
Identity Narrative products

The Queue: Mary Richardson-Lowry

Mary Richardson-Lowry is the scent maker behind the Identity Narrative line of fragrances and is featured in "The Craft of Scent" in the Beauty issue of American Craft.
Portrait of Brittany Nicole Cox at her workstation

The Queue: Brittany Nicole Cox

Based in Seattle, Washington, Brittany Nicole Cox is an antiquarian horologist trained in the repair of mechanical objects or automata.
Print by Sarah K. Khan

The Queue: Sarah K. Khan

Sarah K. Khan is a multimedia maker and scholar. In her most recent body of work, she uses prints to reimagine a women-centered history grounded in pre-European colonization of the Indian Ocean World.
Sandor Katz sitting in a garden

The Queue: Sandor Katz

Fermentation educator and author Sandor Katz is one of three artisanal food craftspeople featured in "From Passion to Plate" in the Kitchen Table issue of American Craft.
Portrait of pastry chef Jen Yee

The Queue: Jen Yee

Jen Yee is a pastry chef based in Atlanta and one of three artisanal food craftspeople featured in "From Passion to Plate" in the Kitchen Table issue of American Craft.
Portrait of Korsha Wilson

The Queue: Korsha Wilson

Food writer and host of the podcast A Hungry Society Korsha Wilson is featured in an interview in the June/July 2020 issue of American Craft.
Michael Twitty in historic garb holding a bowl of food

The Queue: Michael Twitty

Michael Twitty is a writer, culinary historian, educator, and winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation’s awards for Writing and Book of the Year for The Cooking Gene.
Neftali Duran instructing someone on cooking with a clay comal

The Queue: Neftalí Durán

Chef, advocate, and educator Neftalí Durán (right) is interested in reclaiming the traditional foodways of the original peoples of the Americas.
Anna Metcalfe Pop Up Picnic

The Queue: Anna Metcalfe

Minneapolis-based ceramist Anna Metcalfe contributed a Kitchen Heirloom Object Story on baking to the June/July 2020 issue of American Craft. She's also an artist of the Socially Engaged Craft Collective, one of our program partners for our current American Craft Forum series on craft thinking.
The Queue Ani Kasten

The Queue: Ani Kasten

This week, we turn the platform over to Ani Kasten, a full-time practicing studio artist who has been operating Ani Kasten Ceramics since 2005.
The Queue Luci Jockel

The Queue: Luci Jockel

In our first-ever installment of The Queue, Philadelphia-based jewelry artist Luci Jockel shares what's currently inspiring her.
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