Don’t miss another great Library Salon Series talk tonight! Glass and installation artist, and Emerging Voices Award finalist, Anna Mlasowsky joins us to expand on her work, practice, and why glass is the medium of choice for expressing her ideas. 

Pottery unravels in a series of work by ceramic sculptor Michael Boroniec.

Seth Rogen dabbles in furniture, with the help of Brooklyn design firm Bower.

Pulitzer prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, is giving a lecture at the Museum of Arts and Design in conjunction with several exhibitions that deal with themes of migration, travel, safety, and borders.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art rolled out the red carpet for the Met Gala, the annual opening party for its spring exhibition. The invite-only event is also a fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute. This year's show put the focus on fashion and works of medieval art, in what the Met describes as a thematic exhibition examining "fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism."

Art in the Twenty-First Century returns for season nine and features some fantastic artists, such as installation and craft-inspired artist Stephanie Syjuco. For more about her art-based activism, check out “Open-Source Activism” from American Craft Inquiry.

Folks have a lot to say about the Baltimore Museum of Art’s recent announcement that it will be deaccessioning repetitive works in their permanent collection – a controversial move toward expanding its holdings of work by women and artists of color.

Is it a botanical manuscript or a work of astrology or cosmology? The mysterious Voynich Manuscript of Yale University is an ongoing mystery – colorfully illustrated, but written in an enigmatic text that has yet to be deciphered. You can own a now-available facsimile.

Dezeen reports that the Pussyhat by Kat Coyle, Jayna Zweiman, and Krista Suh has been chosen by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum as one of 10 designs that will help predict what’s in store for the years to come. For more on the Pussyhat Project, check out “The Hat That Roared” from American Craft.

The Bard Graduate Center is hosting “DIY@BGC: Immersive Approaches to Making,” a public festival exploring various approaches and techniques of making. Programming runs until May 12.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announces the 2018 National Design Award Winners. The National Design Awards were conceived by the museum to honor lasting achievement in American design.

F&M Project (French & Michigan) announced the four artists participating in their inaugural 2019 – 2020 publication program. Included are: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, 2017 ACC Emerging Voices artist, Ryan Takaba, Sterling Allen, and Joey Fauerso. 

John Berry was named acting director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. Director Christopher Scoates will depart in June to serve as the new director of the Museum of Arts and Design.