Bit and spur makers Wilson Capron and Ernie Marsh and saddlemakers Carol Gessell and John Willemsma, artists featured in Cowboy Craft: Traditional Art of the West, will present on the history and intricacies of their highly specialized practices.

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Transform your textiles with electronics and switches!

Incorporating conductive thread, snaps, and buttons, create interactive components to your work through traditional fiber techniques.

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Step into the kitchen-turned-lab and discover the future of sustainable design in this bioplastics workshop! You’ll transform everyday, food-grade ingredients into biodegradable plastics using nothing more than common kitchen tools.

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Build expressive 3D forms using traditional basketry techniques and elevate your piece with “skins” made of paper, animal gut, concrete, and acrylic medium.

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Go big conceptually and physically in this intimate workshop where you’ll learn the ins and outs of installation from conception to execution.

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Intertwine horticulture and textile, flora and thread in his unique hand embroidery and lacemaking workshop!

We’ll start with the basics and gradually increase in complexity as you create one of a kind works of art.

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Transform your textiles with electronics and switches!

Incorporating conductive thread, snaps, and buttons, create interactive components to your work through traditional fiber techniques.

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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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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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Eight McKnight Artists features work by 2025 McKnight Ceramic Artist Fellows Elizabeth Coleman (Minneapolis, MN) and Peter Jadoonath (Shafer, MN), alongside 2024 McKnight Ceramic Artist Residents Birdie Boone, Uriel Caspi, Suze Lindsay, Sana Musasama, Dorothea Nold, and KyoungHwa Oh.

Supported by the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation, the exhibition highlights outstanding contemporary ceramic artists from Minnesota, across the U.S., and around the world.

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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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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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The Red Mill Museum Village and the Hunterdon Art Museum, in collaboration with Handwork 2026, invite the public to celebrate the opening of “The Peace Flag Project,” hundreds of handmade flags displayed along the Raritan River and pedestrian bridge.

The public is invited to the dedication ceremony, Sunday, June 14th at noon on the Main Street Bridge.  Following the ceremony, both mills will have public programs emphasizing crafts, community and the State of New Jersey’s 250th anniversary.

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Marques Hanalei Marzan is a Honolulu-based visual artist of Hawaiian, Japanese, and Filipino descent.

Marzan’s work is reflective of his upbringing in Hawai‘i and his travels throughout the Pacific and world, engaging with indigenous communities and responding to their cultural approaches of integrating natural fibers into daily life. His passion often manifests as sculptural forms, site-specific installations and works on the body.

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

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