medium
: Clay
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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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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The Workhouse Arts Center is a vibrant 55-acre arts campus housed in a former historic prison. We offer art classes, exhibitions, and artist studio spaces for 70+ working artists, as well as professional theater and music performances, historic tours, and seasonal family-friendly experiences. We strive to harness the power of the arts to engage, heal, and inspire communities through creativity, cultural enrichment, historic preservation, and positive social impact.
2026 commemorates the 25th anniversary of the closure of the Washington DC Corrections Office’s Lorton Correctional Complex (1910-2001). The Workhouse Arts Center is located on 55 acres of the former 3,500-acre prison and is home to the Lorton Prison Museum, dedicated to sharing the 91-years of this former Washington DC prison’s history, including events of the women’s suffrage movement.
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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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For over 20 years, R & Company has championed collectible design, advancing the contemporary marketplace and growing a global collector base and clientele. Its founders, Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, are widely recognized for identifying rising talent, deepening scholarship about collectible design, and developing new avenues for growth in the industry.
The gallery is committed to nurturing and sustaining the markets and careers of emerging and established designers, and maintaining and expanding interest in historical design. Its roster features a wide range of designers from around the globe, including Wendell Castle, Rogan Gregory, Greta Magnusson Grossman, the Haas Brothers, Serban Ionescu, Hun-Chung Lee, Joyce Lin, Roberto Lugo, Richard Marquis, Jolie Ngo, Sayar & Garibeh, Katie Stout, Joaquim Tenreiro, and Jeff Zimmerman, among others. Through its acclaimed exhibitions, publications, and fair presentations, the gallery has become a leader in the field, fostering relationships with collectors, cultural leaders, dedicated patrons, and scholars.
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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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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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The ACGA Clay & Glass Festival returns to the beautiful grounds of the Palo Alto Art Center in July, featuring 140+ of California’s best artisans, makers, sculptors, and potters showcasing their original works in clay and glass!
Catch the exciting pottery Throwdown to be held both days — where talented throwers compete against the clock and each other to see who can throw the tallest cylinder and widest bowl.
Demonstrations by amazing makers, food trucks, and endless art to collect and enjoy.
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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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The Northern Clay Center Galleries are now open until 7 pm on Thursdays!
To celebrate our extended hours, join us for an inspiring new series featuring artist talks, demonstrations, conversations, and more—all centered on the world of ceramics. Free and open to everyone.
Join us on January 22 at 6 pm for the premiere showing of NCC’s new brand video. Popcorn provided!
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The Northern Clay Center Galleries are now open until 7 pm on Thursdays! To celebrate our extended hours, join us for an inspiring new series featuring artist talks, demonstrations, conversations, and more—all centered on the world of ceramics. Free and open to everyone.
Join us for a conversation with mother/ daughter duo, artist Alysha Hill and psychologist Dr. Belynda Tse on mindfulness, creativity, restoration, and gratitude.
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In Shadow Piece(s): Chance-Based Responses in Clay, seven ceramic artists—Maggie Adams, Alexis C. Brunkow, E.C. Comstock, Tomo Ingalls, Vanessa Romo, Jennifer Schumacher Waller, and Kurt Tomerlin—respond to a single set of written instructions: Shadow Piece (1963) by Japanese Fluxus artist Meiko Shiomi. Originally conceived as a poetic performance score, Shadow Piece invites a meditation on the presence and movement of shadow in space and time.
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