Artist Preta Wolzak explores the impact of tourism and climate change on the North and South Poles in two of her series of embroidered works Ma Petite Inuite and Everybody Needs a Hero.

The first Black Fashion Week kicks off in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organizers are looking to highlight and celebrate underrepresented designers and stylists.

Hyperallergic highlights a 19th-century text that helps to identify colors in nature. Scottish painter Syme published Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours in 1814, and it has just been produced in facsimile by Smithsonian Books.

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s towering abstract flower paintings, ceramist So Yeon Park creates tableware to match from slip-cast porcelain.

Outsider art continues to make its way into formal art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York just opened “History Refused to Die,” an exhibition featuring works donated through a recent gift from the Soul Grown Deep Foundation. The show is on view through September 23.

Congratulations to Craft in America. The renowned organization just received a whopping $50,000 from the NEA to continue producing its award-winning documentary series.

Ceramist, painter, and ACC Gold Medalist Jun Kaneko will have a solo exhibition at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia next summer (opening June 1, 2019).

Jeweler and ACC Fellow Sharon Church was honored with the 2018 SNAG Lifetime Achievement Award this past week at the organization's conference in Portland, Oregon.

Camilla Dietz Bergeron, a former stockbroker who became an antique and estate jeweler, died this week. She was 76.