event-type
: Exhibitions + Shows
NWDC artists take center stage at the Postmark Center for the Arts in this juried exhibition celebrating contemporary craft and design.
NWDC is proud to have Barbara Matilsky as juror, bringing over thirty years of curatorial experience from the Queens Museum of Art in New York City and the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington.
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Experience Violet, a powerful exhibition by Drawing & Painting AiR Lydia Cash that bridges painting and music through themes of healing and self-expression.
Each work draws from her upcoming album, inviting viewers into a vulnerable, intuitive, and deeply personal process.
Visit the exhibition February 2–28 and join us February 27 for an artist talk and live musical performance.
Artist talk : Feb 27, 2026 5 PM
RSVP HERE
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The Red Mill Museum Village’s 2nd Annual Hands-On History Traditional Crafts Festival will bring 18th-century skills to life through immersive, hands-on demonstrations on April 25, 2026.
Visitors can watch artisans and participate in blacksmithing, leatherwork, weaving, basketry, lace-making, violin-making, and more.
The event also features the Mill to Mill Peace Flag Project, inviting guests to create community art.
Admission includes access to historic buildings and exhibits.
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In Clay Sustains: Vessels of Change, eighteen ceramic artists ponder themes of sustainability in their art, focusing their exceptional bodies of work on pressing issues of environmental and cultural change in our time of planetary crisis.
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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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Wayne Art Center is pleased to announce Art Quilt Elements 2026, an international juried exhibition of contemporary fine art quilts. This biennial show features the work of 55 artists from 22 states and two international locations including Australia and Luxenberg.
The exhibition will run from March 23 through April 25, 2026, and be on display in the Davenport, Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith and Vidinghoff Galleries.
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‘Clutch City Craft‘ explores the craft traditions and material cultures that have made Houston a powerhouse of making.
Named after the city’s hard-won nickname, the exhibition traces a material journey from civic infrastructure and SLAB car culture to bespoke western wear, grillz, and aerospace innovation, revealing how skilled craftsmanship underpins Houston’s industrial strength, cultural identity, and extraordinary concentration of working artists.
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Featuring works in fiber, clay, and glass—among the oldest artistic mediums—the exhibition highlights how contemporary artists push tradition forward through experimentation, innovation, and bold imagination.
Sculptural textiles, expressive ceramics, and dynamic glass works blur the boundaries between craft and contemporary art, revealing how these materials continue to serve as vital platforms for creative inquiry.
https://www.sausalitocenterforthearts.org/fiber
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Come see how cloth was woven before the Industrial Revolution! This demo will feature a 4-shaft counterbalance floor loom. Watch this hand-operated device in action while learning about the unique tools and vocabulary used in traditional weaving. Participants will then have the opportunity to join our instructor in operating the loom.
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A juried, touring exhibition, “Art Quilters Celebrate Independence,” will feature artwork by Studio Art Quilt Associates–Pennsylvania (SAQA-PA) in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States.
It premieres in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty, at Moore College of Art & Design during the summer of 2026. Between forty and fifty innovative art quilts and quilted artworks will explore the broad meaning of independence and freedom of expression.
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The human body is essential to craft. This genre of art is rooted in physical labor, tactile knowledge, and material intimacy, and the resulting pieces are often intended to protect our bodies or to assist in nourishing them.
Building on that foundation, this exhibition presents works made of wood, ceramics, glass, textiles, and sweetgrass, and foregrounds their bodily resonance in terms of method of making as well as subject matter.
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Inspired by a curious mix of childhood fishing memories and social commentary, the work created by Ann Morton for this show uses the materiality of fishing line, hooks and sinkers, combined with assorted detritus that is then employed in hand weavings and assemblages. The graphics of nautical warning flags and imaginary fishing lures are metaphorical nods to the lures and navigational challenges we all experience as human beings.
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Featuring works from Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s permanent collection, the show highlights the breadth of materials — ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, glass and even more unconventional substances — used by contemporary American artists.
By weaving together these varied mediums, the exhibition tells an inclusive and multifaceted story of craft as an essential form of artistic expression within the broader context of American art history.
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