Interested in expanding your weaving repertoire and creating vibrant and functional pieces?

The projects chosen for this three-day workshop build skills and familiarize students with weaving with paper. Students will make four baskets out of painted paper designed by the instructor.

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America 250: Common Threads reflects on 250 years of art as civic participation. A copy of the Declaration of Independence will anchor a group of historic documents displayed alongside quilts, weavings, whirligigs, paintings, and more, from the eighteenth century to the present. Local quilters working live in the galleries will piece quilt squares made by Arkansas K-12 students and designed by artist Basil Kincaid.

The exhibition is organized in partnership with the American Folk Art Museum.

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In this busy four-day workshop, Ann will introduce the off-loom weaving technique of twining as a method of creating contemporary woven sculptural forms.

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B. Jean Larson is an artist and researcher who questions value and visibility by exploring the intersections of utilitarian textile craft, posthumanism, and queer theory. Central to her practice is the metaphor of the bog: a queer space that shifts between the binaries of land and water and has been historically devalued.

Through meticulous hand braiding, B. Jean creates large-scale rag rugs that move between painting and sculpture, art and craft.

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Wayne Art Center is pleased to announce Living with Craft, featuring artworks in a diverse range of mediums that represent and celebrate an aesthetic and functional role of craft in our everyday environment.

A distinctive collection of contemporary lifestyle vignettes will showcase furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, glass, jewelry, wearable art, and sculptural objects by approximately 50 artists.

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Wayne Art Center is excited to announce the 30th anniversary of CraftForms, the International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft.

Located in the Davenport Gallery, the exhibition features work created by 102 artists from 31 states and four countries, including Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland.

Works include basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, wood and 3D printing.

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San Diego-based artist Ashley Blalock created a large-scale, site-specific crocheted installation for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for their 30th Anniversary.

Says Blalock: This slow, meditative process is a remedy to world increasingly comprised of virtual connections, quick transitions, planned obsolescence, and instant gratification.”

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Tennessee Craft 2025 Member Exhibition highlights and promotes the excellence and high standards of Tennessee Craft member artists and provides public visibility and recognition for the quality and diversity of craft found in Tennessee.

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This workshop takes a dive into design principles for Baltic/Speckled pickup using original and playful reptile patterns created by instructor Annie MacHale, a nationally celebrated Inkle Loom weaver for over 45 years.

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Learn all about cross stitch with a folk-art twist.

After a short introduction to Nordic folk art and history, students will receive step-by-step instructions to complete their own 3″ floral cross-stitch piece. Students will head home with the skills to read a cross-stitch chart to continue this craft on their own after class.

Suitable for ages 16+. $65 ($55 ASI member) + $15 materials fee.

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Spin the night away as you transform fibers into hand-spun yarn.

This hands-on class welcomes beginning spinners to the essentials of yarn making using a simple and portable tool, the hand spindle. Whatever your yarn dreams may be, this class will get you started!

Note, spinning requires motor skills in two hands. Suitable for ages 16+. $55 ($50 ASI member) + $15-30 materials fee.

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Learn the history of Norwegian embellished sheepskins, or skinnfell, while block printing a tanned sheepskin hat.

Students will use traditional Norwegian wooden print blocks to create meaningful designs and finish with a stitched hem. Leave with a warm and woolly hat, plus the skills for future wearable and decorative skinnfell projects.

Suitable for ages 18+; some hand strength is required. $95 ($85 ASI member) + $60 materials fee.

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Step beyond sock puppets in this intergenerational class.

Using wool as the base material, students will create 3-D characters of their own design, including ears, arms, feet, and a mouth with any expression they can imagine. After sculpting and shaping the puppet, students can either create a stuffed animal or keep it as a puppet.

Suitable for ages 5-12 alongside an adult. $90 adult/child pair ($80 ASI member adult/child pair) + $50 material fee.

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Slöjd Studio is a monthly program for children in grades 3–5.

Participants will practice slöjd skills and explore new tools as they continue to nurture their lifelong love of handcraft. In this class, instructor Anna Ruhland will teach students how to create the iconic cone-shaped hat of Tomte.

Young makers will cut out a pattern in felt, then needle felt their own designs on the fabric and handstitch a seam to complete their Swedish Tomte hat to wear all year round. $25 ($20 ASI member).

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Experience the vibrant sensory textile works in a new exhibition at the American Swedish Institute. Emelie Röndahl creates large-scale figurative textiles that challenge and expand the possibilities of rya, a traditional Scandinavian weaving technique.

As a textile artist, Emelie challenges tradition by showcasing new aspects of rya, creating depth and duality in her works, which can be viewed from both sides. Her works ask viewers to slow down and look closely.

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