If you’re in Minneapolis this weekend, you won’t want to miss our Holiday Craft Hop, co-hosted by RSP Architects. Stop by the Grain Belt Brew House in northeast Minneapolis on Saturday to check out more than 60 of Minnesota’s best makers co-curated by ACC, the Minnesota Jewelry Arts Guild, and A Conspiracy of Strange Girls.

The Made Here initiative in the Twin Cities is the largest vacant storefront initiative in the country. Biannually, Made Here showcases the talent and creativity of Minnesota artists while energizing downtown Minneapolis with its installations. Don't miss the latest iteration, "Energy: Made Here," launching December 19.

Paper artist Meloney Celliers creates layered illustrations using pen and a paper-folding technique called quilling.

A new type of urban art hit the parks and streets in various European cities: birdhouses.

What's up for Etsy and the business of handmade? The New York Times talked to its new boss to find out.

A start-up company whose mission is to inspire young makers by making STEM education fun is making a splash with a new Star Wars droid invention kit. Check out this interview with LittleBits CEO Ayah Bdeir on how they’re keeping kids interested in technology by learning through play.

Apparently we truly do live in a “gilded age,” as evidenced by Tiffany & Co.’s new Everyday Collection.

Robby the Robot from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet sold at Bonhams for nearly $6 million, according to Hyperallergic.

The wall labels for the exquisite 16th-century pieces that make up the "Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance" exhibition, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explain each object's worth through a different type of currency: cows.