Check out this interview with designer Máximo Riera, whose collection of animal-inspired chairs makes for a roaring good time.

Rogan Brown captures bacteria and fungi in detailed paper sculptures.

Etsy shut down its wholesale operation.

Are you interested in socially engaged art? Check out A Blade of Grass, an online artist resource center for makers interested in social change through art.

Vogue highlights Native designers who are reclaiming their culture through fashion.

Art Jewelry Forum posted an incredible interview with two organizations separated by an ocean, but connected in mission. That mission: support and advocacy for artists who are mothers.

Juxtaposition Arts, an arts organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focused on building community through urban youth and education initiatives, recently announced it's expanding programming, including a campaign to fund better facilities and equipment.

New online exhibition: For the annual Halstead Design Challenge, 68 metalsmiths created work from a kit of identical materials and one found object of their choosing.

After collaborating with Deborah Gans on the beautiful rose window at the Eldridge Street Museum in New York, artist Kiki Smith returns with a site-specific installation of sculptures inspired by this museum-within-a-synagogue space.

Apply now for the American Craft Council's emerging artists program. Hip Pop is a juried showcase of top emerging talent that provides a pathway for early-career artists into ACC's established, competitive craft shows.Regular applications for the 2019 American Craft Shows are also open now.

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft seeks a curatorial fellow to assist the curator in developing and executing innovative exhibitions of contemporary craft.

American fashion and design icon Kate Spade died. She was 55.

A batch of oral histories of people important to the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles – for example, Sam Maloof – is now on the UCLA Libraries website.

On June 13, ACC welcomes Dr. Heather Akou for a Library Salon Series talk about fashion collections and the politics of dress.

The Furniture Society's annual conference is June 13 – 16 at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco.

June 11 – 17 is Nation of Makers' national week of making.