event-type
: Celebrations + Gatherings
Seven pottery studios will host Sixty-eight potters from twenty states.
They will present months of handmade work for sale amid the hospitality of our local potters at their rural studios.
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Join the Hermitage Museum & Gardens on Friday June 12, 6-9pm, as we celebrate our special exhibition, Handwork at the Hermitage!
Enjoy a Tour with Lindsay Neal, Curator of Collections, 7 pm; Guitarist Joe McMurray of the Tidewater Guitar Orchestra; Artist Rick Nickel’s animated film Building a Legacy: Woodsend, the Sloanes, and the Hermitage; Artist activities inspired by the exhibition; bar with selections from Waters Edge Winery; Food from Creative Catering of Virginia and Mission BBQ.
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In conjunction with Suzanne Sullivan’s solo exhibition The Wilderness of Mirrors, join us at Brooklyn Metal Works for a chess tournament celebrating stealth, strategy, and subterfuge. Ceramicists Maggie Boyd and Julia Elsas will join Sullivan in this collaborative event, each creating a handmade chess board that will be set up for gameplay. Sign up to challenge the artists and immerse yourself in The Wilderness of Mirrors!
*Please note that these spaces are only accessible via stairs.
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The Workhouse Clay International is the anticipated annual showcase of contemporary ceramics at the Workhouse Arts Center. Now in its 16th year, this exhibition represents the depth and breadth of contemporary functional and sculptural ceramic artworks.
The 2026 juror is potter and podcast host, Ben Carter, who considered 270+ entries to select 50 pieces that represent a variety of styles and techniques, and which demonstrate high technical skill.
Reception: Saturday, April 11, 6-8pm
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Every 2nd Friday of the month, the Torpedo Factory Art Center is open late, offering free activities, live music, art workshops, and open artist studios.
This month, we’re celebrating Handwork 2026, and featuring the diversity of the crafts that define America, bringing compelling stories and underrepresented art and artists into the spotlight.
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Detroit, the Motor City, is rich with cultural ingenuity, built by working hands. Known for its industrial power and labor movements as well as its vibrant music, art, and design scenes, Detroit represents the confluence of creative and diverse communities.
The conference theme, Labor & Legacy, explores jewelry and metalwork as both practice and inheritance—honoring the labor of makers and their commitments to sharing knowledge. This intergenerational passion drives the future forward.
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The MFA Textiles Program in the School of Fashion at the Parsons School of Design is pleased to welcome Jamie Okuma for the Handwork 2026 Artist Residency, as part of Handwork 2026 presented by Craft in America. We invite you to join us in celebrating the artist residency at a Meet & Greet Reception with Jamie Okuma.
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Join us in celebrating the exhibit Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.
Paper is an underappreciated resource that touches every aspect of our lives, even architecture. We see the influence of paper in construction materials, architecture models, and as design inspiration. This exhibition focuses on paper as it shapes the spaces we live and work in.
This event is free and open to the public. Reception from 4:00 – 7:00 PM.
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Come participate in the annual Rawhide Gathering in Woodruff, Utah!
Held every year by acclaimed local maker Dan Ames, this gathering draws people from around the country for three days of braiding.
Everyone is welcome to come and participate or just observe, but please reach out to Dan Ames for more details.
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Fiber Art for All is Textile Center’s yearly winter Open House celebrating all things fiber art!
Featuring a Makers Market with 25 local artists, hands-on demos with our staff and teaching artists, coffee, music, a scavenger hunt, and more, it’s a chance to make connections and find inspiration during Minnesota’s coldest and darkest season!
Free and open to the public, there’s opportunities for all to explore, create, shop, and engage with fiber art in all its forms.
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Free event with Quilts of Valor, demonstrations, hand’s on activities for all ages held for our 16th year at the International Quilt Museum.
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Makers of all experience levels are invited to craft in community and explore the rich traditions of textile work. The Fellowship honors the diverse fiber arts that have shaped our nation’s cultural heritage.
The Fellowship meets Fridays from 1–3 PM, alternating between the two host museums. Participants bring any fiber project, such as crochet, knitting, weaving, spinning, or needlework, and work side by side in a supportive, skill-sharing environment.
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Join HCCC Curator + Exhibitions Director Sarah Darro for a tour of the new exhibition, Clutch City Craft, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the makers, materials, and stories shaping Houston’s vernacular—from the infrastructures beneath our feet to the technologies that carry us beyond Earth.
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Kick off Go Texan Day and rodeo season at the opening reception of Clutch City Craft, an exhibition surveying the makers and material traditions that have shaped Houston.
Come with your finest Houston western wear—boots, buckles, hats, grillz, and low riders are encouraged!—for a chance to take home prizes.
Opening reception from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, with western wear judging beginning at 7:00 PM. The evening will also feature open studios by the newest resident artists.
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The 2026 Project Threadways Symposium explores the power of making through the theme of Regeneration.
Presentations, workshops, and exhibitions center cotton, from soil to shelf to symbol—who grows it, how it is nurtured, who benefits in the global marketplace, and its generational legacy.
Speakers explore power and representation in the supply chain, connect craft and culture, and showcase pioneers restoring health and humanity to the world’s most ubiquitous fiber.
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