event-type

: Talks + Conferences

Teacher Training Flyer. Waldorf Handwork Educators

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.

International
Virtual
Other Talks + Conferences Virtual Workshops + Courses
Clay Fiber Mixed Media Other Paper Wood

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!

International
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual Workshops + Courses
Fiber Mixed Media Paper Wood
Conference Flyer. Waldorf Handwork Educators

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.

International
Virtual
Other Talks + Conferences Virtual Workshops + Courses
Clay Fiber Mixed Media Other Paper Wood
SoCal SoCraft Event Description. Kerianne Quick

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

San Diego,
CA
Artist Open Studio Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences Workshops + Courses
Clay Fiber Glass Metal Mixed Media Paper Wood
Beast Feast Event Poster. Image Courtesy of Anna Wagner and Hoofprint Press

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?

Chicago,
IL
Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences
Mixed Media Paper Wood
Idaho Cowgirl Congress Exhibit Poster. Design by Kari McCluey

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.

Ketchum,
ID
Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences
Mixed Media Other
Works by Charlie Willeto. Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum

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.

New York,
NY
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual
Wood
What's My Line? Exhibit and Artist Talk by Barbara Danzi in Los Angeles. Barbara Danzi

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.

Los Angeles,
CA
Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences
Fiber
Marques Hanalei Marzan. Photo by Jordan Fong

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.

Los Angeles,
CA
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual
Fiber
Charles M. Carrillo in his booth at Traditional Spanish Market, Santa Fe, NM, July 2025. Courtesy Maryhill Museum of Art

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.

Goldendale,
WA
Talks + Conferences
Wood
NCECA Community Event Flyer. NCECA

Baltimore will host NCECA’s 61st annual conference from March 10-13th, 2027!

Join us to learn about NCECA and how we amplify the world of ceramics, create work at our clay making and wheel stations, and learn about the Baltimore ceramics community.

Brief introductions will be given by NCECA’s board and conference organizers. Local studios and artists will host demonstrations and other fun activities. Free light refreshments and snacks will be available.

Baltimore,
MD
Celebrations + Gatherings Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences
Clay
Red and Brown by Christine Tedesco. 701 Center for Contemporary Art

FREE to attend.

Join us for a conversation with the Artists featured in our current exhibition, By Hand & Machine, on display until May 17th. The conversation will be moderated by Heather Powers.

Participating Artists:
Kristy Bishop
Amalia Galdona Broche
Catharine Ellis
Amy Putansu
Christine Tedesco

Event will take place Virtually via Zoom. Please RSVP using the link provided.

Columbia,
SC
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual
Fiber
Artist in Residence: Alberta Whittle. Courtesy of Alberta Whittle Studio and Spelman College

Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 will support an artist residency at Spelman College; an immersive opportunity to collaborate, experiment and create. Alberta Whittle works across painting, film, performance and textiles illustrating a nuanced approach to the notion of craft.

Engaging resources across campus from emergent technologies in the innovation lab to resources in printmaking, papermaking, fibers and beyond Whittle will create, meet and interact with faculty and students.

Atlanta,
GA
Other Talks + Conferences Workshops + Courses
Fiber Mixed Media Paper
While throwing on one of the historic wheels at a Pond Farm Pottery tour in 2024, Hunt Prothro shares insights from his many summers spent studying with celebrated ceramicist Marguerite Wildenhain. Photo credit Laurie Prothro

Join Maryland potter and Pond Farmer Hunt Prothro for an extended tour + throwing demonstration+ talk  at Pond Farm Pottery, a National Historic Landmark in Northern California’s coastal hills. Hunt will  discuss surface and glaze effects of his teacher, Bauhaus-trained Master Potter  Marguerite Wildenhain, and her influence on his own body of work.

9:30AM-12:30PM           Saturday, May 16, 2025

Refreshments provided.

Cost: $35/person

Sponsored by Steward of the Coast and Redwoods

Guerneville,
CA
Talks + Conferences
Clay
Selected Artists of Fountain Project 2026

Join us for a FREE Artists Talk with members of the 2026 Fountain Project.

The Fountain Project 2026 is a collaboration between Belger Glass Annex and Powell Gardens.

Each member of the project will give a brief overview of their personal art practice before answering questions from the audience.

Learn more about this diverse group of visiting glass artists and how their experience in glass will shape the final piece that will be installed at Powell Gardens from May 2 through June 21.

Kansas City,
MO
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual
Glass Mixed Media