This week finds the American Craft Council on our home turf in St. Paul, hosting the 2017 American Craft Show at the St. Paul RiverCentre, April 7–9. Stop by and check out over 200 makers and artists, along with our fantastic show programs, including: Let’s Make Inspiration Stations, Make Room, Style Slam, Hip Pop, and School-to-Market.

Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman (of Parks and Recreation fame) are set to host a six-episode competition reality show, The Handmade Project. The casting call is still out, and any interested makers are welcome to apply.

Check out this thoughtful advice on breaking free of "artistic paralysis" from our friends at TextileArtist.org. 

If you're in the Asheville area this Friday, stop by the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design to hear scholar Sarah Archer's take on the graphic identify of Craft Horizons magazine.

Check out this digital knitting machine that allows users to upload designs and produce them lickety-split.

Moving back on the knitting timeline, did you know knitting was used to communicate secretly during WWII?

A new service called Artifax will fax artworks to congress in protest of the NEA budget cuts.

Here is your brain on crochet: Israeli home brand Iota employs women who work at home to create crochet components for poufs, stools, and rugs.

Most of the artists working at the European Ceramic Workcenter are new to clay, reports Diane Daniel, frequent American Craft magazine writer.

"Creativity is a part of myself that I had suppressed and ignored, viewing it as an inconsequential, frivolous hobby," says a doctor whose life was saved by the arts.

Crafts magazine has launched an exciting new book club. Check out their discussion of Christopher Frayling's On Craftsmanship. 

At last year’s Burning Man, a project was featured that involved a grove of interactive trees designed by a group of artists and techies – OfBrooklyn.com has the inside scoop on how that project came to fruition.  

Painter and photographer George Woodman, husband of renowned ceramist and ACC gold medalist, Betty Woodman, has died.

Don’t miss the American Craft Council’s Library Salon Series! On April 12 we have papermaker and educator Mary Hark talking to us about her practice, her teaching, and her community projects.

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