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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During this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Prepare a 3 yard warp out of wire, 3/8” to 1” wide
• Beam the wire warp onto a 4-8 harness small floor or table loom
• Weave the 3 yard woven metal warp to be used for jewelry or small sculpture
• Sculpt with woven metal fabric and various ways of connecting for different applications

Lectures will include information about applying the woven metal fabric for basketry, jewelry, 3D sculpture, and bas-relief 2D wall art.

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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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‘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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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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Inspired by a curious mix of childhood fishing memories and social commentary, the work created by Ann Morton for this show uses the materiality of fishing line, hooks and sinkers, combined with assorted detritus that is then employed in hand weavings and assemblages. The graphics of nautical warning flags and imaginary fishing lures are metaphorical nods to the lures and navigational challenges we all experience as human beings.

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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 museum celebrates 250 years of American Craft by honoring and uplifting the artistic contributions made by United States veterans.

Featured in this exhibition are two local veteran artists Jim Covarrubias and David Murrieta.

Covarrubias, a Vietnam War Army veteran, has built a prolific career as an artist and storyteller.

Murrieta, a Marine Corps Reserve veteran of Operation Desert Storm, is known for his Arizona murals and work as an educator.

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Sound has always been a form of human expression through rituals, ceremonies and storytelling.

Throughout time, artists have used sound to embellish their artwork. However, it was in the 20th century that a new medium, sound art, emerged as experimental composers and visual artists took advantage of new sonic technologies.

As we celebrate 250 years of American craft, this exhibition explores the intersection of sound and craft.

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Presented on Zoom
Sunday, February 15, 2026
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Join NWDC Members and other craft lovers on Sunday, February 15 at 3 PM for our next NWDC Member Artist Talk presented on Zoom. This talk is open to the public.

“Furniture is interactive and we develop a bond as we eat, sit, play, sleep, work and live with it. When a table, chair, bed or desk leaves my workshop, I hope it becomes part of your life and history through generations of use.” – Seth Rolland

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NWDC presents contemporary craft today created by members of NWDC. All members are welcome to submit work to be selected by two jurors, Ron and Vicki Piper Gerton.

It is an opportunity to celebrate excellence in craft and design, and to showcase current trends in hand craft. It promises to be a important exhibition marking today’s trends and tomorrow’s expectations.

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First Peoples Project: Art of the Native South is an exhibition and event series highlighting craft traditions that through intergenerational transmission have been a part of some Native Americans’ cultural identity, way of life, resilience and survival for more than 12,000 years.
It is in this context that we recognize how the historically important contributions of Native Americans in the field of craft inform modern practice through an exhibition, Indian Craft Market and event series.

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Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a first-of-its-kind.

This powerful, majestic and groundbreaking exhibition gives broader and overdue recognition to roughly 120 glass art objects created by twenty-nine Native American artists, four Pacific Rim artists from New Zealand and Australia, and leading glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass was originated by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico where it was curated by Dr. Letitia Chambers and Cathy Short (Potawatomi). The traveling exhibit was curated by Dr. Chambers and is toured by International Arts & Artists.

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