If you find yourself in Baltimore, you will not want to miss the American Craft Show, February 24 - 26. Check out more than 650 artists and makers, and get inspired! There are so many opportunities to connect. Support emerging artists in our Hip Pop and School-to-Market programs. Engage with stylists, interior designers, and local Baltimore arts organizations through Style Slam, Make Room, and the Let’s Make Inspiration Stations. New this year, we are pleased to welcome 20 of Scotland’s finest makers as Craft Scotland joins us.

The massive online handmade marketplace, Etsy, has announced its next venture: Etsy Studio.

Jenny Sabin Studio won 2017 MoMA PS1’s Young Architecture Program competition with their proposal of a shelter made from robotically knitted textile solar panels. The project immerses visitors in a cooling microclimate during the day, and glows at night using energy collected from the sun.

This wool art installation of hand-knit wool ropes by Raya Kassisieh will be repurposed into blankets for Syrian refugees and Jordanian families when the exhibition closes.

Kirby Tepper is an actor and teacher who wants to help artists learn to negotiate. Check out his webinar scheduled for February 27.

Diana Scherer makes amazing geometric patterns out of plant roots.

Anish Kapoor is banned from using a certain color of pink until he gives up exclusive rights to his favorite black, and Sarah Archer explores the history of the color in society and revolution.

A new exhibition entitled "SuperMaterial" spotlights ingenious materials being designed around the world today.

We're excited to learn more about the remarkable ways wool is being used today through the work of Janice Arnold in the exhibition "Felt DeCoded | Wool: Nature's Technology," now on view at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.

The Corning Museum of Glass has announced its 2017 artist residents. 

In connection with their exhibit "Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse," the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, has assembled a remarkable list of resources on sustainable textiles and fashion.

Will the National Endowment for the Arts find an unlikely ally in Ivanka Trump?

Dr. Karol Wight, the president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, has just been appointed to the State Department Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Emerging Voices Awards. Congratulations to our Emerging Artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Emerging Scholar Sarah Parrish, and our shortlist artists: Hannah Batsel, Ted Lott, Anna Mlasowsky, and Gerardo Monterrubio.

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