As part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, we’re proud to announce California Rising: Beauty By Hand.

This craft fair is an important, local voice in this year’s semiquincentennial celebration, Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026. It was organized by a small but dedicated group of Southern Californian craft professionals and artists, to include over three dozen Californian craftspeople from all corners of this great state.

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Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is dedicated to educating, enriching and building community through equal and inclusive access to the visual arts. Located at the southernmost tip of Los Angeles County, we strive to be a catalyst for the advancement of LA art, culture and its global impact.

Founded in 1931, PVAC continues to make art accessible through free exhibitions, affordable classes in all media, scholarships, elementary school-based art education and artist residencies, special education for low income and at-risk youth, outreach partnerships in the community, and support for our artist groups.

We believe in the power of art to spark the imagination, be an agent for change, and unlock unlimited possibilities for community engagement and personal empowerment.

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Experience the 4th Annual Floyd Living Traditions Festival, a free, all-day celebration of Southwest Virginia’s rich artistic and cultural heritage on Saturday, August 22.

Enjoy traditional music, hands-on craft demonstrations, exhibitions, workshops, storytelling, family activities, local food, and artisan vendors as more than 100 artists, musicians, and tradition bearers bring living traditions to life across the Floyd Center for the Arts campus.

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This multimedia installation combines works in glass, embroidered drawings, paintings, and handmade, embroidered shoes and presents them within reimagined forms of the retablo—a powerful colonial tool of indoctrination—to tell the contemporary immigrant story through visual art.

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From introductory lessons taught by distinguished teachers from across the United States, to master-level intensives led by internationally-acclaimed artists, UrbanGlass’ year-round educational programming provides a space to explore this incredible material through hands-on and experiential learning. We also offer private lessons and group events too!

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Hot Glass Hangout is a free demo series, occurring on the first Friday of every month, starring our multi-talented team of studio technicians, administrators and teaching artists doing what they love to do!

See the skills and teamwork that go into shaping molten glass, meet friendly local artists and shop a pop-up Studio Sale featuring beautiful glassware and jewelry crafted by our community.

Soft drinks and snacks are on the house.

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Through glass, scent, and mapping, familiar spaces from a barbecue shop in Hong Kong to personal locations in Los Angeles are revisited and reimagined. Together, the works consider how memory travels, shifts across places, and continues to exist through material and sensory experience, holding onto what remains even after leaving.

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Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen’s newest collaborative project, Confluence, integrates their research into southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey’s rich glass history, the region’s current scientific glass industry, and the local river system and environs that have played a central role, initially in the 1700s, by providing the necessary materials and distribution capabilities in the growth of this signature industry.

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A celebration of our 250th and the pieces that bring us life, liberty and challenge us to the pursuit of happiness.

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Artist organization that provides exhibit and event opportunities for local artists in eastern Massachusetts.

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Artist Kate Clements will be in conversation with Linnea Seidling, the CAT’s Assistant Curator of Glass.

Starting at 6:00pm, learn more about Clements and her work featured in the CAT’s exhibition, Meet Me in the Forest, and have the opportunity to see the exhibition afterward.

The CAT is proud to participate in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a nationwide initiative led by Craft in America to honor the handmade during America’s Semiquincentennial. Through this artist conversation, we join museums, artists, and organizations nationwide in celebrating the craft traditions that connect us through history and time.

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Take your pumpkin-making skills beyond the basics in this focused glass blowing intensive. A favorite seasonal item for artists to create and sell, glass pumpkins offer endless opportunities to explore color, form, and design.

Led by artist Keegan O’Brien, “Beyond the Basic Pumpkin” is designed for beginner through advanced glass blowers who want to strengthen their foundation, refine their technique, and create more distinctive glass pumpkins.

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Take your kiln-glass practice to the next level by mastering the art of the multi-fire process. In this dynamic, hands-on workshop, you won’t just melt glass once and call it a day—you will learn how to treat glass as a raw material that can be engineered, deconstructed, and reimagined.

Related Programming:

Emily Potter Artist Talk:  Thursday, September 3 at 6 pm at Belger Crane Yard Gallery

First Friday Demo: September 4 from 6-8pm at the Belger Glass Annex

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Becoming Heirlooms examines the extrafunctional power of craft and art objects, not merely as artifacts, but as tools for gathering, witnessing, and remembrance.

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Please join us to celebrate the launch of our newest publication, Handwork: Handcrafted Objects that Made America; a visually stunning, deeply inspiring celebration of America’s spirit through ordinary, surprising, and overlooked handcrafted objects spanning more than 250 years.

Handwork includes illuminating texts from nearly 30 experts nationwide that accompany each object, emphasizing overlooked narratives and the underrepresented artists who helped define American life through their craft. Contemporary makers featured throughout show how craft traditions live on, a testament to the human ingenuity that continues to shape American culture. An introduction by Zaiden also speaks to her editorial approach, “placing on equal footing the everyday and ordinary, the overlooked and disregarded, and the exceptional and acclaimed.”

Contributing writers and artists will be present to sign books and discuss their involvement and research.

Please email rsvp@craftinamerica.org to let us know if you’d like to attend.

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