Celebrate the legacy of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in an intimate conversation with their daughter, Laura Ackerman-Shaw, exploring their decades-long creative partnership, design approach, and lasting influence.

After the talk, stay for In Tandem by Katie Nartonis and Margaret Halkin, a 22-minute documentary on the Ackermans’ shared lives, careers, and their pivotal role in shaping California mid-century modernism.

This program is part of Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman.

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Join guest curator Jamie Kwan on a walk-through of Fired in Revolution: Ceramics from the People’s Republic of China. Kwan will talk about the exhibition, share details about the collection, and discuss how the concept for the show came to a realization.

Fired in Revolution explores how The Cultural Revolution was a period of social, cultural, and economic upheaval caused by radical government ideology. It not only affected politics, but also the daily lives of the Chinese people.

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Join us in celebrating the achievements of our 2024 – 25 Early Career Artist Grant Recipients.

Northern Clay Center administers several grant programs designed to support artists in the early stages of their careers through residencies, grants, and education.

This exhibition features the work of Jessica Hernandez, Hannah Kautto, and Anastasia Speer.

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Mimlitsch-Gray explores craft as both subject and object, engaging the history and methods of metalsmithing to reinterpret utility and form. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an American Craft Council Fellow.

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2024–25 Lab Grant Residency Artist Sam Moyer will discuss her experience working at Dieu Donné Paper Mill to develop her first series of handmade paper works.

In her series Soft Mods, she used alternating layers of translucent abaca and pigmented cotton, in shades of Payne’s grey. Working intuitively, Moyer manipulated paper pulp in a sculptural way, creating images that seem composed of light and shadow.

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12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

This virtual artist talk will feature Timothy Barrett and Paul Wong discussing how they each developed archival, conservation-quality papers that were used to rebind or rehouse national treasures in our libraries and archives.

Moderated by Director of Artistic Projects & Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg.

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Surface Tension brings together two makers whose creative paths emerge from distinct disciplines.

Erika Diamond is a textile-based artist working with Kevlar and eggshells to create wearable garments and Chelsea Lillo is an Anaplastologist who crafts custom prosthetic devices for patients who experience loss or alteration of facial or physical anatomy.

Diamond and Lillo’s works navigate the terrain of the human body—its identity, construction, safety, and movement within society.

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I Am Clay is the first exhibition to focus on figurative pottery from Acoma Pueblo.

The community-curated show examines historic Puebloan precursors to figuration in clay, and considers how tourism during the early 20th century helped shape the development of this practice.

Over 120 objects will narrate the story of the Acoma women artists at the heart of this tradition.

I Am Clay travels to Haak’u Museum at Acoma Pueblo in February 2027.

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This professionally juried-exhibition highlights South Carolina’s contemporary craft scene as part of the national Handwork 2026 initiative.

Featuring 10–12 artists working in fiber, ceramics, wood, and mixed media, the show emphasizes both heritage and innovation. Many of the works will be created specifically for this exhibition, underscoring the ongoing evolution of craft practices in the state.

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Costume Society of America’s 2026 symposium in Charlotte, NC will explore the cyclical nature of dress and textile history.

From ancient reuse driven by cost to today’s response to fast fashion waste, the practices of remake, recycle, and upcycle reflect enduring ingenuity. Rising interest in second-hand shopping and creative repurposing underscores a modern shift toward sustainability, reaffirming the historical and contemporary relevance of reuse, remake, and recycle in the clothing industry.

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Textile Center is kicking off the year celebrating Minnesota artists with the 2025 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition, featuring new work by the 2025 fellowship recipients Christine Novotny of Grand Marais, a weaver and dyer, and Shannon Lucas Westrum of Bemidji, a basketry and mixed media artist.

Artist talks and reception for the artists: March 19, 5 – 7 pm, 2026, at Textile Center.

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Begun in 2018 and completed in 2020, John Paul Morabito unveils their series of religious tapestries with a subtle but explicit intervention, cloaking 15th- and 16th-century Renaissance paintings of Madonna and Child in flamboyant colors of drag—a Queer allegory turning sacred to Camp.

Morabito remediates devotional paintings by artists such as DaVinci and Botticelli with accentuated day-glow colors and a stigmata presentation shimmering with gold beaded fringe.

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NAN’s flagship annual event, Assembly for Embroiderers, brings stitchers of all levels together for exceptional classes, lectures, discussion forums, and artistic inspiration.

Held in conjunction with Assembly, The Exemplary is our celebrated needlearts exhibition showcasing original, adapted, and non-original works by stitchers at all stages of their journey.

Entrants do not need to be a NAN member to enter The Exemplary.

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Founded in 1799, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is the nation’s oldest continuously operating museum, dedicated to celebrating creativity across time, place, and culture.

PEM’s Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 audio tour curated by Paula Richter, features nearly 30 objects from six galleries. Spanning 500 years, the tour explores how handcraft—from colonial furniture to contemporary textiles—embodies artistry, identity, and the timeless value of making by hand.

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Join artist and Instructor James Johnson for a presentation about Tlingit history and the cultural significance of spoons.

Tlingit spoons are constructed from Dall sheep horn, mountain goat horn, and wood. James will talk about feeding our ancestors, cultural practice, and the meaning behind the designs.

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