state

: GA

Indie Craft Winter Experience Flyer. Katrine Trantham

Indie Craft Experience is a thoughtfully curated marketplace designed to showcase exceptional independent artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs.

Through hands on maker activities and immersive experiences, we create opportunities for visitors to do more than shop—they can discover, learn, and participate in the creative process.

Atlanta,
GA
Marketplaces + Festivals
Clay Fiber Glass Metal Mixed Media Other Paper Wood
Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron. Image courtesy of instructor

Participants will explore indigo through its many transformations from plant to pigment to vat. Working across multiple processes, students will gain a layered understanding of how it shifts in form, behavior, and color over time.

Our workshop retreats are an immersive series of retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. The experience includes accommodations on our 600-acre campus, crafted meals, and serene time in the North Georgia Mountains.

Rabun Gap,
GA
Workshops + Courses
Fiber
Indie Craft Experience, Event snapshot with name

Indie Craft Experience is a thoughtfully curated marketplace designed to showcase exceptional independent artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs. Since 2005, we’ve connected shoppers directly with talented creatives selling handmade goods, original art, and vintage treasures while fostering meaningful connections between artists and the community.

Through hands on maker activities and immersive experiences, we create opportunities for visitors to do more than shop—they can discover, learn, and participate in the creative process.

Atlanta,
GA
Arts/Cultural Organization
Clay Fiber Glass Metal Mixed Media Other Paper Wood
Weaving on a Loom. Photo by David Rorick

The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s (HGA) mission is to educate, support, and inspire the fiber art community.

We provide inspiration, instruction, and networking opportunities for fiber artists of all skill levels. HGA produces a quarterly magazine for its more than 3,500 members, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot; Convergence®, a biennial international fiber arts conference; Small Expressions, an annual juried exhibition of small fiber artworks; and many more opportunities for artists, including grants, scholarships, and virtual events.

Atlanta,
GA
Arts/Cultural Organization
Fiber
Artist in Residence: Alberta Whittle. Courtesy of Alberta Whittle Studio and Spelman College

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.

Atlanta,
GA
Other Talks + Conferences Workshops + Courses
Fiber Mixed Media Paper
Artist in Residence, Alberta Whittle. Courtesy of Alberta Whittle Studio and Spelman College

“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

Atlanta,
GA
University or College
Fiber Mixed Media Paper
SEFAA Center. SEFAA

The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) is your creative community. Classes, events, and exhibits in all fiber art techniques, from applique’ to weaving.

We’re passionate about teaching fiber art skills and curating exceptional exhibits and events, but SEFAA is about so much more. We’re here to help you find – or rediscover – the joy of creating. We’re here to celebrate the traditions that connect us across generations and cultures. Through the unique lens of fiber arts – both contemporary and traditional – we ignite creativity that nourishes the soul, fosters understanding, and celebrates the beautifully diverse fabric of our world.

Together, we are SEFAA, weaving connections and crafting something truly beautiful and extraordinary!

Chamblee,
GA
Arts/Cultural Organization
Fiber
A European style mold and deckle. RCW Paper Museum

Join us for a special lecture and papermaking workshop with guest historian Dr. Joran Proot! Dr. Proot is a distinguished historian of early modern books from the Cultura Fonds and the University of Antwerp. Dr. Proot will discuss the materials and workflow of paper making as it was carried out in Europe during the early modern period. After the lecture participants will learn to make paper, using the classic Western style technique.

All skill levels welcome and all materials provided.

Atlanta,
GA
Talks + Conferences Workshops + Courses
Paper
Expanded tunnel book, its cover is a black and white image of a house with open doors and windows. RCW Paper Museum

Learn how to build a little world! Tunnel books are created from a series of cut-paper panels that create depth in a small, detailed scene.

In this class, we will learn how to prepare and assemble materials to make a tunnel book, as well as some of the history behind this fascinating structure. Participants will construct a book starting with an image from historic Atlanta, and leave ready to make their own creations.

All skill levels welcome and all materials provided.

Atlanta,
GA
Workshops + Courses
Paper
Cardboard model of Georgia Tech's automobile mascot the Ramblin' Wreck. RCW Paper Museum

In this workshop, you will build your very own Ramblin’ Wreck cardboard model using a custom kit packed with laser-cut pieces. Along the way, you’ll master 4–5 creative cardboard joining techniques engineers use for structural strength.

We’ll dive into the science behind cardboard—discover how its strength and flexibility change with flute direction and ply thickness—while you put theory into practice. By the end, you’ll have a sturdy, eye-catching creation to take home and show off!

Atlanta,
GA
Workshops + Courses
Paper
"Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design" in white text over a dramatic black and white image of a stack of paper. RCW Paper Museum

Join us for a free virtual lecture with Georgia Tech Professors Myrsini Mamoli and Daniel Phelps on the collaborative exhibit Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design. Each professor will share their design approach to this collaboration as well as constraints and considerations that the students had to address when designing an exhibition space. 

Virtual talk from 7:00 – 8:00pm ET. Register here.

Atlanta,
GA
Virtual
Talks + Conferences Virtual
Paper
"Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design" in white text over a dramatic black and white image of a stack of paper. RCW Paper Museum

Join us in celebrating the exhibit Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.

Paper is an underappreciated resource that touches every aspect of our lives, even architecture. We see the influence of paper in construction materials, architecture models, and as design inspiration. This exhibition focuses on paper as it shapes the spaces we live and work in.

This event is free and open to the public. Reception from 4:00 – 7:00 PM.

Atlanta,
GA
Celebrations + Gatherings Exhibitions + Shows
Paper
"Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design" in white text over a dramatic black and white image of a stack of paper. RCW Paper Museum

Paper is an underappreciated resource. It touches every aspect of our lives, even architecture. We see the influence of paper in construction materials, architecture models, and as design inspiration.

Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design examines the many ways paper shapes—and is shaped by—our built environment.

Atlanta,
GA
Exhibitions + Shows
Paper
Erika Diamond, Eggshell Shirt - Business Casual, 2022, Eggshells stitched between two layers of tulle. Erika Diamond

Surface Tension brings together two makers whose creative paths emerge from distinct disciplines.

Erika Diamond is a textile-based artist working with Kevlar and eggshells to create wearable garments and Chelsea Lillo is an Anaplastologist who crafts custom prosthetic devices for patients who experience loss or alteration of facial or physical anatomy.

Diamond and Lillo’s works navigate the terrain of the human body—its identity, construction, safety, and movement within society.

Athens,
GA
Exhibitions + Shows Talks + Conferences
Fiber Mixed Media Other
Main Entrance, Lyndon House Arts Center. Andrew Sticha

The Lyndon House Arts Center supports local and regional artists in their creative
pursuits by professionally exhibiting their works, developing programs, and designing exhibitions of relevance to our times. The Arts Center provides the community with quality art education and events to celebrate our cultural heritage. We firmly believe that the arts pave a way for diversity, inclusivity, equity, and accessibility.

The Arts Center offers rotating contemporary gallery exhibitions, classes, workshops, and studio memberships. The Ware-Lyndon Historic House (c. 1850) houses a decorative collection and, on our grounds, an interpretive garden. The Arts Center is dedicated to cultural place-making and enriching the Athens area through the inclusion of art in every aspect of everyday life, fostering a deep appreciation for the value of the visual arts.

The Lyndon House Arts Center is owned and operated by the Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department of the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government.

Athens,
GA
Arts/Cultural Organization Gallery
Clay Fiber Glass Metal Mixed Media Paper Wood