Join us for a FREE Artist Talk with Visiting Artists, Ekin Deniz Aytac and Joshua Davids.

The Aytac-Davids Collective is the artistic partnership of husband and wife Ekin Deniz Aytac and Joshua Davids. Their Cityscape series is a core sculptural exploration that offers reflections on the nature of self as it relates to the places and structures that shape their experience.

These programs are in conjunction with Aytac-Davids’s special topic class, Advanced Color Application.

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The Gibbes enriches lives through art. We are committed to telling the story of Charleston’s ever-changing landscape and its people. Including historical, modern, and contemporary works, our collection spans 350 years and features some of the country’s most celebrated artists.

With world-class rotating exhibitions and a dynamic visiting artist residency program, there’s so much to see inside. Set in the heart of downtown Charleston, the Gibbes is a southern museum with a global perspective.

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The Hunter Museum of American Art collects, preserves, and presents American art and connects the community through inspiring educational and visitor-focused experiences for all.

With its iconic campus, exceptional collection of American art, and engagement with the community, the Hunter is an essential space where everyone is welcome to experience creativity, connect, and share ideas.

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THE NATURAL WORLD is a cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring eight artists, pairing clay and glass with painting to explore material, process, and the environment.

Curated by ceramic artist Pierre Bounaud, the exhibition foregrounds craft through earth-based materials shaped by heat and transformation.

Paintings curated by Laura Green offer a visual counterpoint, expanding the dialogue between tactile form and painterly interpretation of the natural world.

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The Studio Door is a contemporary art gallery and working-studio hub located in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood, the city’s recognized LGBTQ Cultural District. Founded in 2014, the gallery presents a year-round exhibition program alongside 17 on-site artist studios, positioning itself as both a site of presentation and an active center of artistic production.

The Studio Door is committed to visibility, access, and sustained artistic practice, supporting artists working across media with a particular emphasis on process, material knowledge, and craft. Its programming includes thematic group exhibitions, spotlight presentations, and juried shows that bring together emerging and established artists from Southern California and beyond.

In addition to exhibitions, The Studio Door engages with community, business, and cultural partners through workshops, talks, and creative venue experiences. The gallery serves as a platform for artists while contributing to the broader cultural and economic life of San Diego through collaboration, education, and creative exchange.

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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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STARMAN: Sixty Years of Exploring Glass evokes the radiant energy that defines Swedish artist and designer Bertil Vallien’s oeuvre, while acknowledging his pioneering role in elevating glass from a craft medium to a powerful vehicle for conceptual and sculptural expression.

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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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This five-day masterclass, presented by Ekin Aytac and Josh Davids, is designed for glass artists ready to elevate their glass artwork through a deep exploration of both additive and subtractive color application techniques.

You will engage in complex layering processes in the hot shop and precision manipulation in the cold shop, culminating in the creation of unique, multi-layered glass objects.

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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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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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Join us for an Artist Talk with Glass Resident, Tyler Suter!

Suter is a St. Louis-based artist who works primarily with glass. His current body of work explores the repetition of form and pattern that can be found in nature, from micro to macroscopic. He explores various glassworking techniques and incorporates ceramic components.

These programs are in conjunction with Suter’s special topic class, Hot Hands. Only a few class slots are available. Sign up today!

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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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