Artazan Handcraft Market is a curated marketplace celebrating handcraft in all forms, including jewelry, ceramics, textiles, wearable art, home décor, and artisan goods. Bringing together independent artists and makers with shoppers who value craftsmanship, creativity, and the artists behind the work.

Held at the Pasadena Convention Center, Artazan highlights contemporary handcraft through artist exhibits, workshops, demonstrations, and direct interaction with makers working across a wide range of mediums and traditions.

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Touchstone Center for Crafts presents America 250: Craft Today, a national juried exhibition celebrating the best of American contemporary craft.

Showcasing exceptional work by 22 leading and emerging artists from across the country, the exhibition highlights innovation, technical mastery, and the diverse voices shaping craft today.

Together, these works reflect the evolving role of handmade art in American culture.

JUROR: Judy Barie

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Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest, most comprehensive center of its kind in the world. Our mission is to ignite artistic practice, inspire learning, and foster diverse creative communities through the book arts.

We make book arts more accessible by providing tools, equipment, and knowledge. MCBA supports artists from different backgrounds and encourage creative growth.

Through exhibitions and educational programs, we bring people together, inspire new ideas, and help shape the future of the book arts.

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James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA) is the visual arts cultural extension for Morgan State University’s fine arts and academic program. Developed to enhance the scholastic experience of Morgan students and the community’s exposure to works of art, JELMA provides opportunities to experience exhibitions, programs, and presentations.

The museum features work by artists at all levels of their careers, from students to established, world-renowned practitioners.  The JELMA collection comprises art from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, dating from the 9^th century to the present.

The wide range of disciplines represented includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, mixed media and printmaking. JELMA is Maryland’s premier museum for African and Black diaspora art.

In addition to Morgan students, faculty and staff, JELMA exhibitions and events are free and open to the public, and accessible to everyone.

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The DAR Museum’s 31 period rooms span 1690-1930, each evoking a distinct time and place in American history — from a rustic New England kitchen to a refined Southern parlor to a Texas German immigrant homestead. With authentic furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles, they tell the story of the cabinetmakers, silversmiths, weavers, and needleworkers who shaped American domestic life.

Our Study Gallery lets visitors examine hundreds of additional objects from the permanent collection up close.

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The Peale is the oldest purpose-built museum in the Americas. Built in 1814, the museum once served as a space for innovation, discovery, and creativity.

The building itself has had many lives, and presently functions as The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum. We strive to be a mirror—not a lens—reflecting the cultural narrative of now, not curating a limited version of what it means to be a Baltimorean.

We serve as facilitators and advocates, not gatekeepers of knowledge or assigners of cultural value. We’re not just a physical space; we’re a community resource. We provide a place and platform for creative experimentation and serve as a co-creator for exhibits and cultural programming driven by local creators and storytellers.

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The only art museum in Minnesota’s capital city of St. Paul (Imníža Ska in Dakhóta), the Minnesota Museum of American Art (the M) is located in the Upper Midwest of Dakota territory and at the heart of a diverse urban community. Founded in 1894 as an arts educator, the M has evolved into a community-centered institution dedicated to inspiring understanding of American identities, experiences, and complex truths through art and creativity.

We are an inclusive community of people—artists, art lovers, learners, partners, and supporters—brought together by a belief that artistic creation and engagement with the arts are essential to our common vision of a vibrant community.

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The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery examines the material practices, imagery, and regional affiliations of Newcomb Pottery, exploring how its artists visualized—and helped define—ideas of place in the American South.

The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery is co-organized by Telfair Museums and the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University and curated by Dr. Elyse D. Gerstenecker.

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The Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is a dynamic academic museum that builds on the legacy of H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the first degree-granting coordinate college for women in the United States. Located in the Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane’s campus, the museum presents innovative exhibitions and public programs that connect art, scholarship, and community. Its mission centers on fostering creative exchange, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and civic dialogue through socially engaged art and design.

The museum preserves and advances research on Tulane’s art collections, which include more than 8,000 works ranging from historic paintings and photography to contemporary art and design. It also holds the world’s largest collection of objects from the renowned Newcomb Pottery enterprise, created between 1895 and 1940.

Through exhibitions, educational initiatives, and community partnerships, the Newcomb Art Museum serves as a gateway between the university and the wider New Orleans region while honoring the artistic contributions of women and promoting dialogue around the social issues of our time.

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The DAR Museum, located in the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s historic headquarters near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a free decorative arts museum focused on objects used and created in American homes.

The collection includes more than 20,000 objects spanning furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, textiles, and needlework made and used in America through the early 20th century. Thirty-one period rooms offer visitors an immersive look at domestic life across regions, cultures, and time periods.

A study gallery provides close access to hundreds of additional objects from the permanent collection, while a main gallery hosts changing exhibitions that explore the diverse American experience. The museum has been free and open to the public since its founding in 1890.

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Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom or in the summer, on our beautiful front lawn! Bring a project to work on and any tools you need, and be ready to share conversation, tips and questions.

Free; no advanced registration required.

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Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 will support an artist residency at Spelman College; an immersive opportunity to collaborate, experiment and create. Alberta Whittle works across painting, film, performance and textiles illustrating a nuanced approach to the notion of craft.

Engaging resources across campus from emergent technologies in the innovation lab to resources in printmaking, papermaking, fibers and beyond Whittle will create, meet and interact with faculty and students.

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“Future curators, art historians, museum professionals and artists all come together at the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective. Housed within the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College, this innovative program aims to shape the future of the art world and position the Atlanta University Center as the leading incubator of African American professionals in these fields.”

— AUC Art Collective

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Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom or in the summer, on our beautiful front lawn! Bring a project to work on and any tools you need, and be ready to share conversation, tips and questions.

Free; no advanced registration required.

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Starting with Slöjd is a monthly program for early elementary children. Participants explore new tools, materials, and skills that prepare them for a lifelong love of handcraft.

These drop-off programs are suitable for students in grades K–2. $20 ($15 ASI member)

Instructor Anna Ruhland will teach students how to collect nature objects, such as grass and leaves, and use them in printing. Print nature objects onto a canvas bag to create a useful and unique project!

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