The Cricket Press specializes in hand-printed music gig posters, art prints, and more.

Craftsmen Keith Lovik is a master of a time-honored area of puppetry - the ventriloquist dummy.

Mija Riedel examines Michele Pred’s search for materials.

Leah Ollman critiques Jeff Irwin's animal-inspired ceramics in a San Diego library.

The Baltimore show approaches!

Dennis Stevens looks at craft’s different “political generations.”

From carved crayons to recycled dishes, Diem Chau offers tales of innocence, nostalgia and experience.

From opposite directions, two Los Angeles museums—The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens and the Museum of Contemporary Art—succumb to the collaborative charms of craft.

Christopher Lloyd surveys “European Design Since 1985” at the Indianapolis Museum
of Art

A Boston “diaspora” spread the gospel of the Useful and the Beautiful throughout America at the turn of the 20th century. Beverly K. Brandt, author of The Craftsman and the Critic, explains how it all happened.

Using a variety of cutting, carving and surface techniques, Michael Peterson works the burl portion of the timber he finds in his Northwest locale to create sculptural forms that evoke landscape.

The singular River Walk is only the half of it in arts-friendly San Antonio, Texas. Shannon Sharpe finds the pulse of creativity in this colorful Southwest city.

Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman made “things we could be proud of that people could afford and get pleasure from putting on their walls or tables.”

Is it spring yet? Andrew Wagner sure hopes so.

A Swedish design collective finds strength in numbers. David Sokol reports on their rambunctious projects.