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What a weekend! A big thank you to every attendee, presenter and volunteer. Our vibrant craft community is what makes an...
09/08/2026

What a weekend! A big thank you to every attendee, presenter and volunteer. Our vibrant craft community is what makes an event like American Craft Connects so special. Such a pleasure to make new friends, see old faces, and discuss the current state of craft in America!

American Craft Connects kicks off tonight at the Weisman Art Museum () in Minneapolis! It's going to be a packed weekend...
09/04/2026

American Craft Connects kicks off tonight at the Weisman Art Museum () in Minneapolis! It's going to be a packed weekend of speakers, panels, and conversation about craft. Can't wait to see you there!

If you love woodworking done the old-fashioned way—using only hand tools—and are intrigued by the idea of “woodworking c...
09/02/2026

If you love woodworking done the old-fashioned way—using only hand tools—and are intrigued by the idea of “woodworking comedy,” you could do worse than spend this Labor Day weekend in the Amana Colonies ().

On September 4 and 5, the venerable settlement in eastern Iowa will host Handworks 2026, a confab attracting some 80 vendors of new and vintage woodworking tools, as well as wood artists with wares to sell.

Joining vendors from the Midwest, both coasts, New England, and the South will be makers from Canada, Australia, France, and China. Link in bio to read the full article.

📷 : Joel Moskowitz

While teaching at the Children’s Art Carnival () in Harlem in the mid-1970s, New York City textile artist (and 2024 Amer...
09/01/2026

While teaching at the Children’s Art Carnival () in Harlem in the mid-1970s, New York City textile artist (and 2024 American Craft Council Fellow) Michael A. Cummings (._cummings) saw how his young students approached art instinctively and without constraint, layering fabric scraps, buttons, and feathers into colorful collages. “It allowed me to think, ‘Michael, you have to let go of this book learning and just be a free spirit like the students,’” recalls Cummings, who had just started working with fabric at the time. “Through the Carnival I got comfortable and familiar with the possibilities of not only fabric, but embellishments and surface treatments,” he says.

He shifted his own practice to collage-inspired quilts adorned with embroidery, found objects, and other embellishments—work that established him as a leading innovator in textile art.

Cummings’s quilts are among the artworks featured in Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery () in Manhattan through September 13. Link in bio to read the full article.

📷 : Michael A. Cummings quilts
Installation image by Olympia Shannon, Courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University.

For his Shards From Moritzplatz Berlin Necklace (1983–84), Bernhard Schobinger () strung together antique crystal beads,...
08/31/2026

For his Shards From Moritzplatz Berlin Necklace (1983–84), Bernhard Schobinger () strung together antique crystal beads, television bulbs, and broken shards of a German Coca-Cola bottle. The items were all scavenged from Moritzplatz, at the time a gathering place for punks and Neue Wilden artists in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The unlikely combination captures the Swiss jeweler’s anti-aesthetic approach, with precious stones threaded alongside the political and consumer detritus of the time.

A towering figure in contemporary jewelry, Schobinger has spent the past five decades treating the form as a subversive medium, working with everything from barbed wire and fishing lures to asphalt and broken toys. Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger, on view through January 3, 2027, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (), is the first US exhibition devoted to his work, which curators Cindi Strauss and Elizabeth Essner describe as, “complex assemblages in which found and precious materials coexist, challenging traditional hierarchies of value.” Link in bio to read the full article.

Bernhard Schobinger, Ring of Rings, 2019,
yellow and white gold, Helen Williams Drutt
Family Collection, US. © Bernhard Schobinger;
photo © Virginia Price

One week away! Hear from leading voices across the field, celebrate the 2026 ACC Biennial Award recipients, explore Minn...
08/28/2026

One week away! Hear from leading voices across the field, celebrate the 2026 ACC Biennial Award recipients, explore Minneapolis’s rich craft scene, and connect with people who care deeply about the future of craft. Are you going?

Rachel Burnstein () lives and works out of a century-old Victorian home in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. The stain...
08/28/2026

Rachel Burnstein () lives and works out of a century-old Victorian home in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. The stained-glass artist has dubbed her house “The Pink Palace” for its bubblegum-pink siding and white gingerbread trim. Fittingly, an original stained-glass window spans the front facade. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” she says.

Inside, the walls are covered floor-to-ceiling with art from friends and artists she admires. Tchotchkes and well-loved books crowd the shelves; even the light switch covers are personalized. It’s a warm, chaotic, maximalist home full of things collected or gifted over the years.

It’s also where Burnstein has built a business out of the wavy, psychedelic mirrors she crafts—one that has earned her nearly 50,000 Instagram followers since 2020. “I made an account called Bad Glass Shop,” she says. “I think I was just like, ‘This stuff is bad, and it’s glass. Maybe one day it will be good.’” Link in bio to read the full article.

Photo courtesy of Rachel Burnstein

Micah Wiles (.creek.farm) creates intricate, impeccable baskets from split white oak, often sourcing and preparing the m...
08/27/2026

Micah Wiles (.creek.farm) creates intricate, impeccable baskets from split white oak, often sourcing and preparing the materials himself on his 100-acre family farm in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The artist and farmer has been making baskets for over a decade, continuing a fiber-art legacy that has become closely associated with Appalachian and south-central Kentucky craft in recent decades despite its Old World roots. Recognizing “the fragility of the tradition,” and his desire to see it continue, Wiles wanted to inspire more people to become dedicated weavers, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to go from tree to basket on their own.

Coincidentally, Cynthia Main, the artist behind Berea, Kentucky’s small-batch production studio Sunhouse Craft (), had approached Wiles about teaching her staff about the artform. Link in bio to read the full article.

Summertime in the subarctic demands a host of harvesting activities. There are greens to gather from the beach, berries ...
08/25/2026

Summertime in the subarctic demands a host of harvesting activities. There are greens to gather from the beach, berries to pick from the tundra, salmon to catch from the rivers. Still, Nome-based Iñupiaq artist MaryJane Litchard, one of a small number of artists in Alaska who practice baleen weaving, is determined to make time for weaving hair barrettes with baleen she gets from whaling captains in Utqiaġvik, the northernmost city in the US. Link in bio to read the full article.

Glass artist Paul Marioni has died at his home in Mexico at the age of 85. An American Craft Council Fellow, he was a ma...
08/21/2026

Glass artist Paul Marioni has died at his home in Mexico at the age of 85. An American Craft Council Fellow, he was a major figure in the studio glass movement of the 1970s. Link in bio to read the full remembrance.

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