The Many Hands, One Passion exhibition brings together the remarkable range of voices within the San Diego Potters’ Guild, artists whose styles, techniques, and creative approaches span the full spectrum of ceramic expression.

From sculptural forms to functional ware, quiet surfaces to bold gestures, each piece reflects a unique artistic journey. Together, they reveal a shared devotion to clay as a language, one capable of carrying emotion, intention, and imagination.

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Staying Power celebrates the histories, legacies, and ongoing impact of SDSU as an influential epicenter of craft.

Featuring the innovative work of nationally and internationally respected emerit and current faculty, as well as select distinguished alumni, the exhibition is a snapshot of the influences that shape our school and the broader creative community – drawing lines that illuminate the web of relationships forged in craft here at SDSU.

Featured Artists:

• Jessica Andersen
• Erin Behling
• Richard Burkett
• Arline Fisch
• Sarah Garcia
• Joanne Hayakawa
• Matt Hebert
• Jeff Irwin
• Christina Lee
• Adam Manley
• Wendy Maruyama
• Luciano Pimienta
• Kerianne Quick
• Brandon Secrest
• Sondra Sherman
• Leslie Shershow
• Helen Shirk
• Christina Smith
• Iren Tete
• Anne Wolfe

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In the Making: Craft, Community, & Art Education in the Valley of the Sun presents individual and collaborative textile works by artists and teachers connected to ASU’s Art Education program.

Developed through a year of sewing circles and writing workshops and directed by textile artist and ASU art education faculty member Carolyn Hazel Drake, the exhibition examines craft as a practice linking intergenerational teaching and artmaking communities in K–12 schools across the Valley.

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This exhibition uses a selection from Arrowmont’s Permanent Collection to juxtapose utilitarian craft-based objects with contemporary fine art, allowing the viewers to envision the transition from functional craft to market-driven design to contemporary practices where traditional techniques support artistic expression.

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THE NATURAL WORLD is a cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring eight artists, pairing clay and glass with painting to explore material, process, and the environment.

Curated by ceramic artist Pierre Bounaud, the exhibition foregrounds craft through earth-based materials shaped by heat and transformation.

Paintings curated by Laura Green offer a visual counterpoint, expanding the dialogue between tactile form and painterly interpretation of the natural world.

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An annual national juried exhibition of teabowls. Juried in 2026 by Athens, Georgia based potter, Minsoo Yuh. Roughly 200 applicants submitting three pieces each year, with 60-70 pieces are selected.

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STARMAN: Sixty Years of Exploring Glass evokes the radiant energy that defines Swedish artist and designer Bertil Vallien’s oeuvre, while acknowledging his pioneering role in elevating glass from a craft medium to a powerful vehicle for conceptual and sculptural expression.

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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.

America 250 Project

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2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the WPA Poster Division of the Federal Art Project, a landmark effort that employed artists in service of the public good.

These handmade posters promoted public health, education, national parks, the arts, and hope during some of the nation’s hardest years.

Posters for the People: Art of the WPA by Ennis Carter features original works from 1936–1943 alongside rare archival reproductions, highlighting the enduring power of public art to make a social impact.

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This survey exhibition of works by Mathew McConnell brings together a selection of ceramic objects produced over fifteen years of sustained inquiry into creative appropriation and artistic influence.

Spanning the years 2010 to 2025, this exhibition unites pieces from multiple bodies of work that share the usage of dark (often charcoal-black), light-absorbing surfaces.

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This exhibition invites the viewer to discover how objects worn on the body express personal stories, cultural lineage, and intimate narratives.

Through an abundant array of materials and techniques, these works bridge fine craft traditions with contemporary perspectives, revealing how adornment becomes a visual language that shapes identity. Each work serves as an invitation to reflect on the personal journey behind its creation, fostering a deeper connection between maker and viewer.

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Winner of MAD’s biannual prize, Hai-Wen Lin explores the attunement of the body to the environment through fashion, sculpture, and kite making.

Their works—described as “couture for the wind”—merge garment construction with flight engineering, resulting in textiles and sculptural kites that can be both worn and flown.

Dyeing fabrics with sunlight and designing kites that double as garments, Lin collapses boundaries between art, design, and performance through poetic encounters with the elements.

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Fragile, luminous, and enduring, porcelain becomes a medium for rethinking plant life in the modern city in Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium, an installation of the artist’s large-scale porcelain wall murals inspired by botanical imagery drawn from medieval tapestries, French decorative arts, mythology, and sustained observation of plant life.

The first major U.S. museum presentation of Riehl’s work, this exhibition underscores MAD’s commitment to contemporary craft and material innovation.

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The September Issue invites you to weave through the traditional arts, of old techniques and form, to gain artistic inspiration from the objects that surround us.

These exhibitions highlight sculpted and constructed forms–from 3D mosaics, basketry and historic garment production to man-made materials spanning beyond the last century, transformed into jewelry, and installation work.

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“Handwork 2026: Wood and Clay in the Northwest” brings together regional artists exploring material, process, and place at Kirkland Arts Center.

The exhibition is juried by David Lynx, Director of the Kirkland Arts Center, whose deep roots in the Puget Sound region and decades of experience as a museum director, educator, and writer bring thoughtful insight to this celebration of Northwest craft traditions.

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