Enjoy forging, food, and fun at the 2026 ABANA Conference “Forging in the Ozarks”, November 11-14, 2026, at the Benton County Fairgrounds outside Bentonville, Arkansas! The event features:

• Demos from leading blacksmiths from North America and beyond
• Beginner Area to try your hand at forging metal
• Kids Activity Area
• Education area with demos and hands-on activities focused on the National Blacksmithing Curriculum
• Craft classes, vendors, lectures, art auction, and more!

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The American Pottery Festival (APF) is Northern Clay Center’s premier annual celebration of ceramic art, bringing together 15 nationally recognized artists from across the United States.

Explore an exhibition and sale featuring hundreds of works, connect with artists through talks, demonstrations, and workshops, and shop in person, online, or with our free personal shopping service. Whether you’re a collector, maker, or simply curious, APF offers an inspiring weekend of clay.

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Dive into the creative world of Ashley V. Blalock and get a final look at her work, Keeping Up Appearances, before its deinstallation!

Thursday, June 25 • 5:30 – 6:30 PM

Please join the MAH for a special artist talk with San Diego-based textile artist Ashley V. Blalock. Blalock’s monumental crocheted work “Keeping Up Appearances” has been on public view at the MAH since November 2025 and is part of Craft in America’s nationwide “HANDWORK” initiative.

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Join us for a FREE Artist Talk with visiting ceramic artist Hayun Surl on Saturday, July 18 at 11:00AM! Learn about his process, personal history, and projects he’s undertaken during his residency at the Belger Crane Yard Studios.

During his residency at Belger Crane Yard Studios, Surl is developing a new body of work focused on exploring the fluidity of cultural identity through large-scale ceramic sculptures.

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Connect with arts education leaders from across the country at the Arts Schools Network Conference, the premier national gathering dedicated to innovation, excellence, and leadership in arts learning.

Through inspiring presentations, interactive workshops, performances, networking opportunities, and artistic, cultural, and educational outings attendees explore transformative practices that support student success and strengthen arts-centered schools and programs.

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Our two-year Online International Handwork Teacher Development Program gives you the foundations, projects, and pedagogy to thrive as a Waldorf handwork teacher – in any setting, anywhere in the world.

Meeting one weekend a month on Saturdays and Sundays, we work our way through grades 1-8, exploring the essence of handwork and its place within the broader Waldorf curriculum.

Now accepting applications for September 2026. Tuition assistance available.

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Children arrive in our classrooms with diverse ways of learning, sensing, and engaging. What looks like distraction or resistance often carries a deeper story.

This July, join an international community of educators to explore neurodiversity, sensory processing, and inclusive Waldorf teaching – and find new ways to meet every child’s journey.

Discover practical handwork projects and strategies, including classroom sensory kits and adaptive stitching projects, and more!

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Explore the full arc of Waldorf handwork, grades 1–8. Join us online this June for a practical overview of the what, how, when, and why of teaching handwork at every grade level.

Conference Highlights

• All-new 2026 content
• Beginning-of-year projects for every grade
• Skills that build progressively across all eight grades
• Fresh projects — no repeats from last summer

Open to anyone teaching in a Waldorf-inspired setting. Basic handwork skills required.

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Explore San Diego through the institutions, artists, craftspeople, and designers who make our craft community. Each weekend in July, a different neighborhood will be activated through interactive craft programming.

Enjoy exhibitions, tours, workshops, demonstrations, make-and-takes, and shop artisan crafts at the most vibrant craft organizations in the region. In conjunction with Handwork 2026.

• July 11 – Balboa Park
• July 12 – La Jolla
• July 18 – Liberty Station
• July 18/19 – City Heights/Balboa Park
• July 25 – College Area SDSU

Google Map Link with event info: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sw3B8Td5gzERXaai7

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Join us for Our Printmaking & Book Art’s AiR, Anna Wagner, for her exhibition, Beast Feast:

• Open June 20 to July 31 in the Annex Gallery.

Anna Wagner’s solo show, BEAST FEAST, is a study of the bloody economy of the animal/human world. In Anna’s intaglio prints and sculpture, the act of consumption is central. Her subjects reevaluate human/imal experiences: Does not the intimacy of the carnivore and her prey bleed through the boundary separating sacrificial violence and love?

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Presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Museum of Art and Handwork 2026, this celebration will spotlight the exceptional craftswomanship that has long defined life in the Mountain West, honoring the creators who keep these traditions vibrant and alive.

True to Western spirit, these artists are opening their corral to the community through a public exhibition, hands-on learning, and conversations that explore their deep ties to the land they call home.

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Join the American Folk Art Museum for a conversation celebrating the legacy of Charlie Willeto. A Hatááłii (medicine man) from Diné Bikéyah, Willeto created distinctive hand-painted wooden carvings that drew on Diné ceremonial traditions while engaging broader artistic audiences.

Through the lens of Diné history, philosophy, and art, the speakers will explore Willeto’s life, vision, and enduring impact, as reflected in works currently on view at AFAM.

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What’s My Line? explores the personality of lines through fabric and stitching. More than 30 quilts will be exhibited, all composed of expressive lines and created by Barbara Danzi

Fiber Artist Talk by Barbara Danzi on Sunday June 28th 2-3 pm

Barbara Danzi is a Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-based textile artist who creates colorful abstract quilts by working improvisationally, cutting fabric and stitching the pieces together so that the seam lines function as organic, hand-drawn marks.

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Marques Hanalei Marzan will present on his wide-ranging fiber-based artwork using techniques such as twining, hand-weaving, knotting and looping as inspired by his Hawaiian ancestors. Marzan’s forms reference garments and other bodily adornments.

Marzan is featured in the Craft in America episode, WEST.

Please email rsvp@craftinamerica.org to attend in person or register to join the webinar online.

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Santero Charles M. Carrillo will be at the museum talking about saint-making in New Mexico and his own personal practice.

He will paint a retablo and bring examples of other New Mexican retablos for visitors to see and handle.

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