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NYC Jewelry Week is a cultural platform dedicated to the celebration of jewelry. We are a hybrid hub, delivering jewelry culture directly to our audience through content, events, strategic initiatives, and an annual jewelry week, in support of our mission — jewelry for all.
Want to learn how to be a more conscious consumer? Or discover your new favorite designer? We provide our community with insider access to the world of jewelry, offering exciting opportunities throughout the year to engage, discover, and shop culminating in our annual jewelry week each November.
We believe that everyone has a relationship to jewelry, and our platform was founded to promote this shared love of all things jewelry. From the admirers and adorners, to the trendsetters and trailblazers, to the collectors and creators, to the brands and businesses, and everyone in between — whatever you love about jewelry, the NYCJW platform is here to feed your curiosity.
This year’s annual NYC Jewelry Week runs November 16-22, 2026. Explore our website to see what else we are up to throughout the year.
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Free event with Quilts of Valor, demonstrations, hand’s on activities for all ages held for our 16th year at the International Quilt Museum.
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Design a Crochet Plushie – a plant, animal or food. Design needs to fit into a typical shoe box. Maryland students age 10 to 18 are invited to participate.
Contest jurors are members of the FiberArt.STUDIO and of the Potomac Fiber Arts Guild.
Designers need to submit one finished sample and the written pattern.
Deadline for contest registration:
February 5th, 2026
Deadline for Design submittal:
April 15th, 2026
See website and flyer for more details.
Exhibit Location TBD.
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Founded by American artist Edith C. Barry in 1936, the Brick Store Museum ignites personal connections to local history and arts through exhibitions, education and programs illustrating the human experience in Kennebunk and the southern Maine region. For 90 years, the Museum has inhabited a campus of five historic buildings, including an 1825 dry goods store built of brick (hence our name!).
The Museum presents a blend of history and art exhibitions and related programming for all ages and learning levels; including arts workshops led by regional teaching artists. The Museum offers a hands-on learning gallery for young visitors, a contemporary arts gallery, and six main galleries to explore. The Museum is located in the heart of downtown Kennebunk, providing a gateway to engaging with the seacoast region and its deep history and artistic heritage.
In 2026, the Museum’s contemporary art gallery, the Bauman Center, will host rotating exhibitions of York County artists presenting their work in a variety of media such as fiber, glass, metal and wood.
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Peters Valley enriches lives through learning, appreciation, and practice of fine crafts.
The making of fine crafts is a kind of exploration, which relies on an integration of heart, head, and hands. Peters Valley encourages and facilitates this exploration in everything we do.
We are a vibrant community, bringing together established and emerging artists from around the globe. Coming together to make things makes us better artists, able to learn from each other, and to evaluate our own efforts in a wider context.
We provide studio-based educational workshops for life-long learners who have the opportunity to benefit from working with nationally and internationally-recognized artists.
We steward the creative process from start to finish, focusing on process to strengthen creative ability. We believe creativity is both personal and communal, often sparked by new places and diverse artistic perspectives.
Peters Valley is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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Join educators worldwide February 14-16, 2026 for collaborative learning focused on 5th grade – the golden year of childhood.
Teachers of handwork, music, movement, languages, class teachers & homeschoolers gather to explore beauty, rhythm & balance. 5th graders stand between dreamy imagination & awakening clarity – a moment of grace.
Deepen your subject work while discovering connections that weave all disciplines together. This in online conference.
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Makers of all experience levels are invited to craft in community and explore the rich traditions of textile work. The Fellowship honors the diverse fiber arts that have shaped our nation’s cultural heritage.
The Fellowship meets Fridays from 1–3 PM, alternating between the two host museums. Participants bring any fiber project, such as crochet, knitting, weaving, spinning, or needlework, and work side by side in a supportive, skill-sharing environment.
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In the spirit of their foremothers, Mary Ann Pettway and China Pettway lead a quilting experience with storytelling, song, and a practice passed through generations in Gee’s Bend, immersing you in a tradition shaped by endurance, community, and a bend in the Alabama River.
The visit includes a public lecture led by Mary Ann Pettway and China Pettway.
They share personal history, family stories, and the context behind the quilts and traditions of Gee’s Bend.
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This exhibition invites the viewer to discover how objects worn on the body express personal stories, cultural lineage, and intimate narratives.
Through an abundant array of materials and techniques, these works bridge fine craft traditions with contemporary perspectives, revealing how adornment becomes a visual language that shapes identity. Each work serves as an invitation to reflect on the personal journey behind its creation, fostering a deeper connection between maker and viewer.
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Winner of MAD’s biannual prize, Hai-Wen Lin explores the attunement of the body to the environment through fashion, sculpture, and kite making.
Their works—described as “couture for the wind”—merge garment construction with flight engineering, resulting in textiles and sculptural kites that can be both worn and flown.
Dyeing fabrics with sunlight and designing kites that double as garments, Lin collapses boundaries between art, design, and performance through poetic encounters with the elements.
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The September Issue invites you to weave through the traditional arts, of old techniques and form, to gain artistic inspiration from the objects that surround us.
These exhibitions highlight sculpted and constructed forms–from 3D mosaics, basketry and historic garment production to man-made materials spanning beyond the last century, transformed into jewelry, and installation work.
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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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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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Dive into the magical world of wool and learn the four essential techniques: wet felting, needle felting, dimensional wool sculpting, and intricate felt tapestry making. Transform soft fiber into stunning, lasting works of art!
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