Craft Happenings calendar

Concurrent Artists-in-Residence Exhibitions

Clay Art Center presents exhibitions from our 2025-2026 Residency cohort featuring: Rittenberg Artist-in-Residence Alvaro Villa, Second-Year Artist-in-Residence Carley Holzem, Second-Year Artist-in-Residence Christine Raposas, and Westchester Community Foundation Fellow Stephanie Perez. La House of Objects en el Orbital Alvaro Villa ALVARO as Ceramic Brujo welcomes viewers into La House of Objects en el Orbital to navigate […]

Can Craft Save America?

From weathervanes and trade signs to quilts, carvings, and painted portraiture, American folk art encompasses a wide range of handicraft practices dating back to the 17th century that symbolize ingenuity, independence, and pride, key values of American identity. The term, which emerged in the early twentieth century, has evolved over time, reflecting changes in the […]

The Ridge Tapestries – A Community’s Story

The Ridge Tapestries depict the creativity and dedication of a community founded in a rural area of Northern California over 50 years ago, and their ongoing efforts to protect the watershed they call home. The stories of the San Juan Ridge, nestled on the western slope of the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, are told through […]

Bead Fest

Experience Bead Fest 2026, the ultimate destination for beaders and jewelry makers, at Valley Forge Casino Resort.

Resident Artist Talks: Arden Carlson & Dominique Muñoz

Join HCCC for talks by current resident artists Arden Carlson (wood) and Dominique Muñoz (craft + photography). Discover the artistic processes of working craft artists and learn about their works of art, influences, and materials. After the talk, visit the residents’ open studios to learn more about their tools and explore their work up close! This […]

Clutch City Craft

The craft culture of Houston—the home of a nationally famous rodeo and NASA’s Space Center—includes handmade cowboy boots, mosaic street signs, and the fiber artists who design space suits. Those making practices and more will be on display in a show that’s part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, an initiative of Craft in America and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Embroidered Portraits for Everyone

Turn a photo on your phone into a treasured heirloom with embroidery. If you’ve always admired embroidery, but wanted to create something special, and not from a kit, join Jamie Maloney for Embroidered Portraits for Everyone. In this in-depth workshop, she’ll take you step-by-step through the process of stitching a portrait from a photo of […]

Guild Fine Craft Show: Mount Desert Island

Guild Fine Craft Show: Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic Campus 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor ME 04609 FRI, AUG 7: 5pm-8pm SAT, AUG 8: 10am-4pm SUN, AUG 9: 10am-4pm $5 weekend admission | under 18 free Free on-site parking The 49th Annual Guild Fine Craft Show: MDI returns to the beautiful seaside campus […]

Stained Glass Honeycomb Workshop with Kolika Chatterjee

Artist Kolika Chatterjee will lead a stained glass workshops on honeycombs at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Online Cowboy Art Talk #2

Silversmiths Beau Compton and Scott Hardy, and rawhide braider Leland Hensley from Cowboy Craft: Traditional Art of the West, will present on the history and intricacies of their highly specialized practices. There will be a Q & A at the end of the presentation.

Haystack Distinguished Speaker Series: What’s All This Temporary Construction? Reflections on Haystack and the Creative Process with Stuart Kestenbaum

Stuart Kestenbaum, a poet and the former director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, will give a talk at the school.

Onyx Patchworks: An Artist Talk with Dr. Jaleesa Wells

Dr. Jaleesa Wells Onyx Patchworks Exhibition: July 16 – August 27, 2026 Artist Talk and Reception: August 13, 2026 Onyx Patchworks is a solo exhibition of Dr. Jaleesa Wells hosted by the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, showcasing her ongoing fiber art quilts series. In Onyx Patchworks, Dr. Wells explores Kentucky history through textile […]

Lockets and Pendants Workshop

This three-day workshop introduces participants to the process of transforming flat metal into forms that can open, close, or move.

WORKSHOP RETREAT: Hand-Turned Ceramic Pottery with Paul Briggs

Join us August 9-14 for Hand-Turned Ceramic Pottery with Paul Briggs. In this extended, hands-on workshop, participants will explore how to build tall, wheel-like vessels using only their hands. Working from a single ball of clay, students will learn to “turn” a form through intentional pinching—lifting and shaping the walls in a manner similar to […]

Screening and Artist Talk with Alisha B Wormsley

Join Revolutionary Care artist Alisha B Wormsley for a screening from her piece, A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair, and a short artist talk. Free and open to the public, registration required.

Japanese Woodworking Festival

Inspired by Kezurou-kai, an annual festival in both the US and Japan, there will be lectures on techniques, tools, and forestry, and Japanese hand tool demonstrations, allowing participants to use the tools themselves. We are excited to be hosting several Japanese woodworkers, including Yann Giguère, Jon Billing, Dale Brotherton, Karl Bareis, Brian Lam, Dave Burnard, […]

Chain Making Workshop

This two-day workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of chain making, exploring how repeating handmade links create both structure and visual rhythm.

Crystalline Disruption

The Barn Gallery's Summer 2026 exhibition features contemporary work by nine artists that use glass as a material in their artwork. Art includes fused glass, stained glass, kiln cast glass, blown glass, mixed media glass installations, and more. Featured Artists include Ann Kalb, Catherine Van Aken, Celeste Budd, Isaac Carman, Katie DelaVaughn, Mark Abildgaard, Mickey […]

Video Craft

Video Craft explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass.

Convergence 2026

Convergence is the biannual conference of the the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., held this August in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Perrysburg Hearts the Arts

Perrysburg Hearts the Arts will be returning in 2026 to the quaint streets of Perrysburg, OH. This fine art fair features jury-selected artists and artisans including jewelry, ceramics, painting, glass, photography, fiber and more. The event is located near convenient parking and wonderful restaurants and shops. In addition to spectacular artists, this event is free […]

From Bast to Bag: Plant Fiber Workshop

For tens of thousands of years, humans have been twisting plants into string, the foundational element of bags, nets, and textiles. Join Molly Koehn (mah-lee kayn) for this two-day, beginner-friendly workshop, and learn how to harvest and process your own plant fibers to create a flexible bag suitable for carrying water bottles, oranges, seashells, cans […]

Brighton Street Art Fair

The Brighton Street Art Fair has quickly become an artist favorite! In 2026 the fair returns to Main Street in the heart of downtown Brighton, which boasts a charming atmosphere with an eclectic mix of restaurants and shops adjacent to Mill Pond and bustles with activity year round. The 3rd Annual Brighton Street Art Fair […]

Material World: Ten Women

Material World: Ten Women May 21, 2026 – August 23, 2026 Material World: Ten Women, an invitational exhibition organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan, features women artists working with non-traditional materials or using traditional materials in non-traditional ways. The exhibition highlights the use of the physical characteristics of material and technique […]