Craft Happenings calendar

Lockets and Pendants Workshop

This three-day workshop introduces participants to the process of transforming flat metal into forms that can open, close, or move.

Introductory Clay Class

The perfect way to get your hands dirty, relax, and have fun! In this one-day introductory class, you'll learn the basics of throwing on the potter's wheel. If you successfully create a bowl, staff will glaze and fire it after the class is completed – all included in the price. If you'd like to take […]

WORKSHOP RETREAT: Hand-Turned Ceramic Pottery with Paul Briggs

Join us August 9-14 for Hand-Turned Ceramic Pottery with Paul Briggs. In this extended, hands-on workshop, participants will explore how to build tall, wheel-like vessels using only their hands. Working from a single ball of clay, students will learn to “turn” a form through intentional pinching—lifting and shaping the walls in a manner similar to […]

Japanese Woodworking Festival

Inspired by Kezurou-kai, an annual festival in both the US and Japan, there will be lectures on techniques, tools, and forestry, and Japanese hand tool demonstrations, allowing participants to use the tools themselves. We are excited to be hosting several Japanese woodworkers, including Yann Giguère, Jon Billing, Dale Brotherton, Karl Bareis, Brian Lam, Dave Burnard, […]

Screening and Artist Talk with Alisha B Wormsley

Join Revolutionary Care artist Alisha B Wormsley for a screening from her piece, A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair, and a short artist talk. Free and open to the public, registration required.

Convergence 2026

Convergence is the biannual conference of the the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., held this August in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Crystalline Disruption

The Barn Gallery's Summer 2026 exhibition features contemporary work by nine artists that use glass as a material in their artwork. Art includes fused glass, stained glass, kiln cast glass, blown glass, mixed media glass installations, and more. Featured Artists include Ann Kalb, Catherine Van Aken, Celeste Budd, Isaac Carman, Katie DelaVaughn, Mark Abildgaard, Mickey […]

Chain Making Workshop

This two-day workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of chain making, exploring how repeating handmade links create both structure and visual rhythm.

Perrysburg Hearts the Arts

Perrysburg Hearts the Arts will be returning in 2026 to the quaint streets of Perrysburg, OH. This fine art fair features jury-selected artists and artisans including jewelry, ceramics, painting, glass, photography, fiber and more. The event is located near convenient parking and wonderful restaurants and shops. In addition to spectacular artists, this event is free […]

Video Craft

Video Craft explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass.

From Bast to Bag: Plant Fiber Workshop

For tens of thousands of years, humans have been twisting plants into string, the foundational element of bags, nets, and textiles. Join Molly Koehn (mah-lee kayn) for this two-day, beginner-friendly workshop, and learn how to harvest and process your own plant fibers to create a flexible bag suitable for carrying water bottles, oranges, seashells, cans […]

Designing Dynamism: Kuba Textiles From the DR Congo, The Wesley Mancini Collection

The exhibition highlights outstanding examples of Kuba artistry, examining both the influence of these motifs on global design trends and the enduring creativity of contemporary artists working in the DR Congo today.

Brighton Street Art Fair

The Brighton Street Art Fair has quickly become an artist favorite! In 2026 the fair returns to Main Street in the heart of downtown Brighton, which boasts a charming atmosphere with an eclectic mix of restaurants and shops adjacent to Mill Pond and bustles with activity year round. The 3rd Annual Brighton Street Art Fair […]

Material World: Ten Women

Material World: Ten Women May 21, 2026 – August 23, 2026 Material World: Ten Women, an invitational exhibition organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan, features women artists working with non-traditional materials or using traditional materials in non-traditional ways. The exhibition highlights the use of the physical characteristics of material and technique […]

Ceramics Now

NEW YORK – The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2025 artists in residence: Lizzy Chemel, Amir Hariri, and Melissa Joseph. Greenwich House Pottery’s Artist Residency Program fosters artistic growth by providing makers time, space, materials, and a creative community to explore and generate new bodies of work in ceramics in […]

42nd Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts

This juried exhibition features the current work of the finest national contemporary quilt artists.

A Woven World

BCMT Gallery will feature A Woven World with an opening reception on 6/27, from 4-7pm, in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend. A Woven World is a consideration of the fundamentals of creation: at its core, weaving is the making of many things into one thing – adding function, strength, beauty. Fiber becomes fabric; thread becomes […]

Glass Painting in the Workshop

Join us on Saturday, August 29th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM for a glass painting workshop led by artist and teacher Mark Kobasz in the 1956 Workshop. Alongside his work in wood featured in WEM’s 32nd Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition, Mark also maintains a practice in painting on glass—a method Esherick experimented with at […]

The Out There is Right Here: Ian Collings and the Bishop Pine Preserve

Blunk Space is pleased to present The Out There is Right Here, an exhibition of new works by Ian Collings in conversation with historic works by JB Blunk, Gordon Onslow Ford, and John Anderson. Collings sourced stone locally while staying and working at the Blunk House, Blunk’s handbuilt home and studio in Inverness, California. In […]

Now is the Time to Understand More

Now is the Time to Understand More These artists serve as narrators of this time. The work acts as a catalyst for insight, carrying intent and consequence, and creating paths towards understanding. Shae Bishop, David Harper Clemons, Ann Coddington, Mary Hallam Pearse, Mercedes Jelinek, Adam John Manley. Althea Murphy-Price, Lindsay Pichaske, George Rodriguez, Piper Shepard, […]

Tread Lightly: Forrest Lesch-Middelton and Beth Schaible

Tread Lightly features individual and collaborative work by Forrest Lesch-Middelton and Beth Schaible, who together operate FLM Ceramics and Petaluma Pottery. Forrest is a potter, tile maker, and educator, and Beth is a bookbinder, letterpress printer, and graphic designer. Their works reflects a curiosity about the world, through examinations of nature and explorations of society […]

Curator Walk-Through: Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics

Join curator Hollis Goodal on a walk-through of Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics. This in-person event is free with museum admission. Space is limited; pre-registration is encouraged.

Build and Brew: Mug Making workshop with Pull-Up Coffee

In partnership with Pull-Up Coffee, join us for a mug making mixer featuring community, creativity, and caffeine! First, you’ll create your own coffee mug out of clay. Three weeks later, your piece will be fired and ready to pick up at Pull-Up Coffee in Downtown Pomona where you’ll enjoy a private coffee tasting!

Here, There, and Everywhere

To mark the occasion of Brooklyn Metal Works’ 15th anniversary, In The Gallery presents Here, There, and Everywhere (June 13 – August 30), a juried exhibition of jewelry and objects by members of the Brooklyn Metal Works alumni network. Featuring 34 artists, Here, There, and Everywhere is a reunion, a yearbook, a map, and a […]