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Free To ReadAmerican Craft Council’s New Membership Program Connects You to Craft Like Never Before
Join ACC now to support craft artists and connect with benefits in the field.
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Free To ReadCrafting Your Legacy
In the inaugural column of our Craft Coalition series, the Everson Museum of Art’s ceramics curator explains how artists can get their work into museum collections.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Kristy Moreno
Kristy Moreno’s clay sculptures of future ancestors are avatars of a better tomorrow.
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Free To ReadSpector Family Foundation Launches New Craft Prize
The three-pronged initiative includes funding for early-career artists.
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Free To Read10 ACC Stories to Feed Your Spirit as You Build Community Through Craft
Craft, in all its forms and fullness, isn’t a fair-weather nicety. It is a constellation of practices and values that deepen our humanity and reflect it back to us, and foster the person-to-person bonds on which communities and societies depend.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Kristin Colombano
Ancient technique and dreamy landscapes collide in Kristin Colombano’s painterly felted textiles.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Leah Woods
Leah Woods’s work with the New Hampshire Furniture Masters has brought her from galleries to prison classrooms.
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Free To ReadUnderstanding the Field
A new essay by Jenni Sorkin considers the Center for Craft’s impactful Craft Research Fund.
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Free To ReadJoyce Lin Wins 2025 John D. Mineck Fellowship
Houston-based Joyce Lin's uncanny furniture forms have earned her a prestigious fellowship from the John D. Mineck Foundation.
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Free To ReadTreasures from the Collection
A cataloger for the American Craft Council Archives reflects on her long, strange trip through two decades of magazine back issues.
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Free To ReadThe Queue: Cait Nolan
For natural dyer and quilter Cait Nolan, creation follows nature’s rhythms. In The Queue, the New Jersey–based artist discusses the cadence of her work, the power of collaboration and asking for help, and learning from an indigo-dyeing master.
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Free To ReadAnother Dimension
Ceramist Jolie Ngo is creating intricate, ebullient work that brings together craft and emerging technology.
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Free To ReadStitched from the Soil
In a medium often focused on uniformity and speed, quiltmaker Cait Nolan relishes process, repetition, and giving back.
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Free To ReadOut of the Elements
New York–based designer Shaina Tabak’s fecund imagination pushes materials to the brink.
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Free To ReadHead and Hand
The American College of the Building Arts blends liberal arts courses and building-trades training in a four-year degree.
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Free To ReadPermanent Marker
Washington glass artist Dan Friday finds enduring forms for his ancestral Coast Salish history.
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Free To ReadMusings in Clay
Paul S. Briggs’s process-driven, spiritual ceramics practice probes his inner life.
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Free To ReadCarving Out a Musical Tradition
Modern makers look to old-school methods while reviving son jarocho culture.
Winter 2026
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Free To ReadThe Scene: Craft in Santa Fe
Local artists share the people and places that define Santa Fe, a city with a complex history that’s a nexus of rich cultural influences.
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Free To ReadFelting with Feeling
Based in San Francisco, maker Kristin Colombano’s bespoke, painterly textiles are as dreamy as they are functional.
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Free To ReadMood Lighting
Each of these four handmade sconces—crafted with unique materials, textures, and shapes—radiates a distinct mood.
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