Spring 2025
American Craft’s Spring 2025 issue is focused on the theme emerge.
In this issue, we share stories of emergence. You’ll discover how dirt and water excavated from a 500-year-old mudhole is used to create Catawba pottery, wood is carved into logic-defying forms, and new motifs in beaded jewelry emerge from a multicultural heritage. And you’ll meet makers who are instigating a neon renaissance. One of our renewed efforts in American Craft is to share more stories about people prioritizing craft in their lives. People such as Mike Lagg and Paula Wilson, who collaborate on creative works and on making most of the items that fill their home and studio spaces in rural New Mexico.
After emerging from reading this issue, we invite you to find or think of a handmade object that means something to you. What is its story? How does it contribute to the story of who you are? How does the connection to the creative work of the human hand make life more meaningful for you?
Inside this issue.
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18 articles
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Vivacious
Three contemporary artists use imaginative techniques and materials to create furniture, tapestries, and sculpture exploding with life.
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Connective Roots
Drawing on folklore and patterns from her cultural heritage, Madison Holler creates intricate beaded jewelry and sumptuous collaborative designs.
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Finds: Spring 2025
Staff from the American Craft Council share three craft objects that they found surprising and delightful.
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Preview: Two Suchitra Mattai Exhibitions
The artist traces her family’s migration history in richly colored textiles in museum exhibitions this spring.
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Hands-On History
Master Catawba potter Bill Harris is preserving—and evolving—a 4,000-year-old cultural practice.
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Enchanted Planters
The ceramic vessels here, created by four makers from the Los Angeles area, would bring a California vibe to most any setting.
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New Releases: Spring 2025
New craft books featured in the Spring 2025 issue of American Craft.
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Talking Clay
The Brickyard Network of podcasts provides listeners insights into various aspects of ceramic making—along with plenty of laughs.
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The Quilters
This documentary short follows a men's quilting group inside a maximum security prison.
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Young Americans and ACC’s Support for Emerging Artists
ACC has supported emerging artists since 1950, beginning with the Young Americans competition.
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Couture for the Wind
Hai-Wen Lin designed a cotton and silk cyanotype garment that transforms into a kite.
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A World of Fiber
Among the few dealers of global and multi-generational fiber arts, browngrotta arts is revered for its beautiful documentation of the craft.
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Shapeshifter
Woodworker Ashley Joseph Martin’s creature-like nightstands, coffee tables, lamps, and decorative vessels invite imaginative interpretation.
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Deep in the Wood
Raul De Lara coaxes sculptures from wood that appear to move, shine, and squish—both embracing and defying the rules of nature.
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A Handmade Wonderland
Paula Wilson and Mike Lagg have transformed their New Mexico home and studios into a haven for creativity.
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A Neon Renaissance
Meet the new generation of makers transforming a glass art tradition.
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Craft Happenings Spring 2025
Upcoming exhibitions and events across the country.
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Photo courtesy of Raul De LaraArtist Raul De Lara Like the Ones Back Home / Como Las De Mi Tierra, 2024, walnut, oak, cedar, 108 x 84 x 36 in.
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Photo by Rubinski VisualRubinski Works’ jewelry, earrings, and wall hangings are made of metal (fine silver or gold filled), glass and metal seed beads, and beeswax nylon thread.
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