Working at a Joyous Creative Thing: Weaving, Making, and Material Culture in Letty Esherick’s Legacy, highlights Artist-in-Residency Kelly Cobb’s ongoing research and creative work at WEM. It marks the first public presentation of Letty Esherick’s textiles in at least five decades. They are shown alongside new works by Cobb, as well as artworks across disciplines by a group of skilled collaborators that range from handmade garments to sound art to embroidery.

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Now in its 49th year, American Craft Made Baltimore is the largest juried craft fair on the East Coast. A celebrated local institution, American Craft Made brings together over 400 artists, 10,000 attendees, and dozens of local partner organizations from across the East Coast for shopping, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, and connection through craft.

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Step inside The Living Temple—a vibrant retrospective celebrating the boundary‑breaking Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009), whose life was her canvas.

From colorful textiles, costumes, and posters to ceramics, video, and sound, Moki’s work dissolves the line between home and stage, art and everyday life.

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Working across painting, textiles, and musical performance, Lisa Alvarado creates works rich with visual and sonic resonance.

Through new work created during her residency, Alvarado invites viewers into a meditative environment where she weaves together ancestral memory, collective history, and the land as both record and source of renewal.

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Clay as Care considers ways in which care manifests in ceramic art and how viewing art and working with clay can promote personal and communal health. Featuring artists whose practices address healing, rest, and resilience, including Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Ehren Tool, and Maia Chao. A reflection of the values of care that we see as inherent in the act of making art with clay.

Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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An exhibition documenting the history and career of one of Pennsylvania’s preeminent glass artists and Pittsburgh Glass Center co-founder, Kathleen Mulcahy. The exhibition will include Mulcahy’s work from 2001 to the present. Works from Ron Desmett will also be included in the exhibition. Though Ron is deceased he was a significant partner in the development of Pittsburgh Glass Center.

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For 25 years Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) has been growing a vibrant community of glass artists. Today that community includes hundreds of glass artists who have moved to Pittsburgh to live and make their art and those that have become passionate about glass by learning and teaching at PGC.

Gathered Locally highlights some of the glass artists who live and create in Pittsburgh.

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This special themed folk art show celebrates the past, the present, and the future of Norwegian folk art in the United States and abroad.

Contemporary artists submit pieces to honor folk art masters of the past; draw inspiration from contemporary culture bearers; explore what folk art might become in the future; or play with some combination of past, present, and future all in one piece.

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Chiu was born in Los Angeles and emigrated to Hong Kong at the age of three.  She once described her work in the following terms, “Drawing inspiration from traditional woodworking techniques, I create large-scale wood sculptures through continuous processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. My recent work combines self-portraiture with niche craft techniques in wood and reimagines processes such as puzzle-making, stack lamination, and split-turning.”

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The exhibition shows the interaction between different social groups, with their traditions, values and ways of life, enriches culture, making it more complex and dynamic.

Oriya Mahmodi, Claudia Huenchuleo, Saroop Soofi, Wipoosana Supanakorn, Peggy Sivert and Sally Linnett show that marked differences between cultures continue to exist, and the confluence between them does not mean that any of them is suppressed; on the contrary, they are articulated.

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Visions Museum of Textile Art proudly presents Quilt Visions 2026, our 26th international juried exhibition, showcasing the finest examples of contemporary art quilts . This year’s collection celebrates the exceptional skill, creativity, and personal expression of each artist, reflecting the museum’s enduring commitment to elevating textile arts as fine art. Through their work, the artists explore identity, our connections with one another, and the stories of fellow humans.

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The exhibition showcases the works of 4 artists who integrate the technique of Cyanotype in textile art: Bailey Macabre, Patricia Gaddis, Shane Booth and Morgan Ford Willingham.

Cyanotypes on fabric were used as sheets, lampshades, pillows, blankets, quilts, and other interesting home decorative elements.

It has currently been incorporated into textile art in a creative and innovative way.

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This exhibition showcases the creativity and innovation of San Diego’s textile artists, remembering that the textile tradition in San Diego dates back to the indigenous Kumeyaay.

6 San Diego artists participate in this exhibition: Monica Loss, Nancy Lemke, Rebecca Smith, Jean Benelli, Sue Britt and Angela D’Amico.

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