The Queue
Meet craft's movers and shakers and stay up on trends
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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The Queue: Saskia Wilson-Brown
Featured in "The Craft of Scent" in the Beauty issue of American Craft, Saskia Wilson-Brown is the founder of the Institute for Art and Olfaction.
The Queue: Takahiro Kitamura
Tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura is the owner of State of Grace Tattoo in San Jose, California. In the Beauty issue of American Craft, he shares an object story about a statue carved by his mother.
The Queue: Lily Fulop
Designer, writer, and visible mender Lily Fulop is featured in the Beauty issue of American Craft in "Beauty After Damage."
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Queue: Tung Chiang
Tung Chiang is a designer and ceramist and the director of Heath Clay Studio in San Francisco.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
In our first-ever installment of The Queue, Philadelphia-based jewelry artist Luci Jockel shares what's currently inspiring her.
