Free event! All ages & skill levels welcome! Join us for a full day of interactive crafting fun at Fiber Fest! You’re invited to celebrate sustainable fiber and craft at San Diego Craft Collective.

At Fiber Fest, enjoy a variety of free crafts, fun Make & Take crafts (for a small fee), local vendors, and live demonstrations, including sheep shearing, wool processing, spinning yarn, felting, weaving, knitting, crochet, natural dye, basket weaving, broom making, and more! See you there!

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The DAR Museum’s 31 period rooms span 1690-1930, each evoking a distinct time and place in American history — from a rustic New England kitchen to a refined Southern parlor to a Texas German immigrant homestead. With authentic furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles, they tell the story of the cabinetmakers, silversmiths, weavers, and needleworkers who shaped American domestic life.

Our Study Gallery lets visitors examine hundreds of additional objects from the permanent collection up close.

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The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery examines the material practices, imagery, and regional affiliations of Newcomb Pottery, exploring how its artists visualized—and helped define—ideas of place in the American South.

The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery is co-organized by Telfair Museums and the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University and curated by Dr. Elyse D. Gerstenecker.

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Starworks Annual Craft Invitational is a juried, exhibition-style event showcasing exceptional functional craft in ceramics, glass, wood, metal, and fiber. Meet artists, collect one-of-a-kind work, and experience live demonstrations throughout the day.

The weekend begins with a Preview Reception offering early access in a relaxed setting. Featuring leading and emerging makers in contemporary craft.

Preview Reception June 12, 6–8 PM ($25)

Main Event June 13, 9 AM–4 PM ($5).

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A solo exhibition of sculptural furniture by Elsa Hoffman.

Blending intricately cut metal with concrete, brick, and salvaged materials, Hoffman creates works that balance delicacy and weight. Rooted in function and form, these pieces reflect five years of her practice, including work made during her Starworks residency.

On view at Starworks May 16–June 6, 2026
Opening reception May 16, 5–7 PM

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100 of East Tennessee’s finest Craft artists in one location. Foothills Craft Guild Show is celebrating 60 years with one-of-a-kind unique craftworks designed and made by well-known artists who are masters of their craft as well as emerging artists that will inspire and amaze!

We have several artists that do demonstrations too. Come and discover them all!

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Strike! Pour! Create!: Works by Metal Museum Apprentices will showcase the work of over twenty apprentices that have lived, worked, and learned at the Museum since the program’s founding. 

It will explore the role of teamwork in metalworking and ways apprentices have contributed to the Museum’s mission. It will also trace the evolution of the program throughout time.

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Our first major exhibition in the Metal Museum’s new home at Overton Park, From the Bluff to the Park: The Metal Museum’s Collections Through Time will document the history and evolution of the Museum from its founding in 1979 to its expansion into a new space.

This exhibition will show early collecting milestones, along with hopes and plans for the future.

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Our 2026 Exhibition: Disciplines Across Decades shines a light on the origins of our nine career training programs and how our students are trained today.

The exhibition will feature the best work of our student and graduate community, their connections to techniques used at the start of their program, a timeline of NBSS history, and artifacts from the early years of each program.

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The Hermitage Museum & Gardens (Norfolk, Virginia) presents Handwork at the Hermitage, an exhibit to highlight the handwork that shaped the site.

Many woodcarvers, such as Charles J. Woodsend (1847–1927) and Karl von Rydingsvärd (1863–1941), contributed distinctive styles and features that continue to define the site a century later.

Handwork at the Hermitage honors their craftsmanship and their work within the scope of America’s rich woodcarving traditions.

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Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding is an immersive installation where thousands of digitally rendered female figures form lush, imagined landscapes.

Reclaiming the nude from art history’s conventions, the work reimagines the body as a site of autonomy, collectivity, and ecological renewal.

Blending craft and technology, Lichtenstein presents a bold feminist vision in which nature and femininity converge in a dynamic, self-determined world.

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This new exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum features selections from Jesse Krimes’s “Elegy Quilt” series (2020–present), a body of work that renders the personal effects of the U.S. carceral system through portraits of domestic spaces.

Using donated textiles and American quilting traditions, Krimes creates intricately patterned quilts that meditate on memory, loss, alienation, comfort, and resilience.

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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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Mississippi-based artist Coulter Fussell artist residency from September 7–11, 2026.

During her residency, Fussell will engage with students through lectures, critiques, and hands-on workshops that foreground material experimentation and the conceptual possibilities of textile-based practices.

The residency will include a public exhibition of Fussell’s work (August 15^th – September 11^th) , offering audiences an opportunity to experience her immersive quilt-based installations firsthand.

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