Craft Happenings calendar

Hands-on Houston: Bolo Ties

Get an early start on Go Texan Day at this month’s Hands-on Houston by crafting a one-of-a-kind bolo tie!

Press Play: Free Printing Event & Open House

Press Play is an annual open house that invites participants to experience letterpress printing and book arts through hands-on activities in MCBA’s studios.

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

“I’m interested in what the material can do,” renowned artist and educator Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) once said. Her work—ranging from intricate wire sculptures to bronze casts, paintings, prints, and public works—bears out this experimental mindset. Here some 300 pieces from her six-decade career paint a definitive portrait of an avant-gardist who loved natural forms. Learn about the book on page 65.

Wunderkammer: The Collection of Susan Beech

The 17th- and 18th-century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, was a private collection of marvelous objects, reflecting the owner’s sensibility, including curiosity about new worlds being opened by exploration. In this exhibition, visitors will get a glimpse of San Francisco Bay Area collector Beech’s expansive, sometimes surreal sensibility, as reflected in nearly 100 works from her sumptuous and eclectic assemblage of art jewelry.

Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural

In this show, first featured at the Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, one visitor at a time will be able to enter a gorgeously colorful and complex stained glass structure by Philadelphia artist Schaechter—a three-tiered “cosmos” that invites contemplation of our outer and inner worlds. Accompanying it are a number of her other works, which draw on natural elements to create what organizers call “biophilic beauty.”

Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures

Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures presents monumental fiber works and an immersive recreation of the artist’s NYC studio.

Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Statements

This is the first dedicated exhibition of the work of fashion artists Viktor&Rolf in the United States, and it features more than 100 of their most daring and avant-garde designs.

The Art of Mending

In this four-week class, discover the simple joy of repair through hand sewing and creative mending.

Curator Walk-Through: Fired in Revolution

Join guest curator Jamie Kwan on a walk-through of Fired in Revolution: Ceramics from the People’s Republic of China.

Objects of Desire at Asher: Off the Wall

Join HCCC for shopping and some hand-crafted touches—just in time to find an artful gift for your discerning sweetheart or yourself!

Ann Van Hoey: Clay, Color, and Form

Ann Van Hoey is a Belgian ceramicist whose first career, commercial engineering, shaped her distinctive cutting and folding of clay into precise, mathematical vessels.

Dyani White Hawk: Love Language

This survey of the Lakota artist’s work—including paintings, sculpture, video, beadwork, quillwork, glass mosaic, and more—documents 15 years of her efforts to foreground Lakota artistic forms and cultural teachings while reminding audiences of the legacies of settler colonialism and oppression. A highlight is her series of paintings enhanced with shimmering beadwork, entitled Wopila|Lineage.

Glass Coast Weekend 2026

Curated by Habatat, this collectors-focused weekend features first access to the Glass Art Fair—the largest for-sale glass exhibition in the Southern U.S.—plus artist talks, live glassblowing, and opportunities to meet leading contemporary glass artists at Ringling College.

Yage Wang

This show will feature recent work by China-born, Hong Kong–based Wang, who inverts the usual relationship between ceramics and painting. Instead of applying decorative or representational painting to vessels, he creates “paintings” in ceramic—three-dimensional, loosely interpreted versions of oil-on-canvas works. Adding an additional layer of sly complexity, he often parodies paintings that include ceramic pieces.

47th Annual Yuma Art Symposium

The Yuma Art Symposium is one of the most unusual arts educational forums in the country. This three-day total immersion art event hosts exhibitions, events, demonstrations, and presentations given by nationally and internationally recognized and emerging artists. Ten artists in in several disciplines—metal, clay, photography, printmaking, painting, wood and fiber—will be presenting.

Amy Usdin: After All

In an exhibition organized by the museum’s Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Usdin displays fiber pieces in various forms, including curtains and nets in hemp, linen, wool, cotton, and more. The work, according to the organizers, “portrays the continuous cycle of life and entropy” and “explores the blurred lines between past and present, emphasizing our fragile ties with each other and the earth.”

Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books

Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books—drawn from Yale Library Special Collections—presents over 30 artists’ books by contemporary American artists and select international creators who explore and subvert traditional bookmaking materials, elements, and forms to reflect upon the power of the book form to share experiences, challenge assumed truths, and envision new futures.

Nancy Callan and Katherine Gray: The Clown in Me Loves You

In what the Fuller calls “a sculpted fusion of kitsch and catharsis,” West Coast artists Callan (Seattle) and Gray (Los Angeles) collaborated for four years on a body of work that explores how we understand and experience the world of clowns and clowning. The pieces on display, executed with venerable Venetian glassblowing techniques, reflect childhood memories of clowns, the mythology of the circus, personal and political associations with the entertainers, and more.

The Art and Design of Howard Smith

Smith (1928–2021) was among the handful of postwar Black craft artists with strong ties to industry; his textiles and ceramics were produced by some of Scandinavia’s top design firms. Along with his commercial designs, some of which incorporate African motifs, this retrospective highlights his diverse art practice, including paper cuts, jackets turned into sculptures, and shamanistic masks made from hats.

Certain Restrictions Do Apply: Carolyn Mazloomi and Sharon Kerry-Harlan

A landmark two-person textile exhibition featuring new works by artists Carolyn Mazloomi and Sharon Kerry-Harlan.

Adorned with Memory

The Heard presents necklaces, bracelets, rings, and earrings from the notable collection of Native art assembled by the late Arizona grocery-store magnate Eddie Basha. The show underlines Basha’s longtime support of Native creativity and his friendships with artists including Duane Maktima (Laguna Pueblo/Hopi), Terry and Joe B. Reano (Santo Domingo Pueblo), and Carl and Irene Clark (Diné).

Celebrations in Fiber

Rochester Art Center presents Celebrations in Fiber, a group exhibition by the Zumbro River Fiber Arts Guild, which showcases the rich and diverse world of fiber arts.

Dripping Earth: Cannupa Hanska Luger

These clay forms—augmented with willow branches, blankets, felt, used sports equipment, and other traditional and untraditional materials—reach backward to the earth-molding, lodge-building traditions of the artist’s Mandan and Hidatsa forebears. The clay sculptures and works in other media on display join Luger’s ongoing series, Future Ancestral Technologies, which imagines new Native narratives in the spirit of speculative fiction.

Calina Hiriza and Sandra Kosinski

This two-person exhibition showcases the work of Calina Hiriza, a Romanian American abstract artist working in resin and acrylic, and Sandra Kosinski, a New Jersey–based ceramist.