Interviews & Profiles

Pittsburgh designer and maker Rona Chang balances family life and running a sustainable clothing brand.

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SaraBeth Post Eskuche channels color and energy into her vivid glass jewelry, home wares, and sculptures.

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The founder of A Nod to Design pairs beads and chains in her harmonious jewelry designs.

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Eric Carr aims to satisfy unique client needs with his fine studio furniture.

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Kristy Moreno’s clay sculptures of future ancestors are avatars of a better tomorrow.

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Ancient technique and dreamy landscapes collide in Kristin Colombano’s painterly felted textiles.

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Leah Woods’s work with the New Hampshire Furniture Masters has brought her from galleries to prison classrooms.

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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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Felicia Greenlee carves and chisels images of social change in her layered narrative wood collages. In The Queue, the Seneca, South Carolina–based artist shares about the craft community in South Carolina, the skills she gained as a textile designer, and a traveling exhibition featuring her work.

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Nosheen Iqbal foregrounds Pakistani and Islamic art in her entrancing embroidery-on-wood compositions. In The Queue, the Dallas-based artist and designer chats about CraftTexas 2025, developing clients in the corporate and hospitality worlds, and two contemporary events pushing Islamic and South Asian art forward.

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Samantha Briegel’s fashion-inspired porcelain vessels dazzle with patterns and textures. In The Queue, the Maryland-based ceramist talks about how she creates her work, her favorite slow fashion designers, and what she’s looking forward to at this year’s American Pottery Festival in Minneapolis.

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Metalsmith Thomas Bliven crafts handmade accessories for top-tier clothing labels and the celebrities who make their fashions memorable.

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Dawn Williams Boyd fashions recycled textiles into powerful paintings in cloth. In The Queue, the Atlanta-based textile artist talks about her family’s dedication to the handmade, the extensive list of tools that make her work possible, and the importance of senior art programs.

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Micah Clasper-Torch brings fashion sense to the punch needle revival.

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Inspired by textiles, ceramist Samantha Briegel adorns her work like a stylist.

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Felicia Greenlee transforms wood into layered narratives that challenge history, celebrate Black identity, and spark conversation through texture and form.

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Massachusetts woodworker Charles Thompson astutely pairs fanciful carving and expert joinery in green wood furniture.

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With wool dyed to match her imagination’s palette, Melissa Monroe creates rugs, furniture-inspired sculptures, and objects filled with life.

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Ben Medansky, a former production potter, creates bespoke wall art for clients around the world.

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Household objects from antique stores and estate sales are transformed and reimagined in MJ Tyson’s sculptural work. 

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Ato Ribeiro’s works in wood dazzle with pattern and texture. In The Queue, the Atlanta-based sculptor and multimedia artist shares about being surrounded by craft in Ghana, why he uses wood in his work, and the challenges and delights of working with different wood species.

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Bill and Shannen Oyster of Oyster Bamboo craft masterful bamboo fly-fishing rods—and pass along the skills to make them.

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Lehuauakea’s expansive kapa practice bridges traditional Native Hawaiian knowledge and contemporary ways of being.

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Kelsie Rudolph’s ceramic furniture balances the hard and the soft.

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