Eight McKnight Artists features work by 2025 McKnight Ceramic Artist Fellows Elizabeth Coleman (Minneapolis, MN) and Peter Jadoonath (Shafer, MN), alongside 2024 McKnight Ceramic Artist Residents Birdie Boone, Uriel Caspi, Suze Lindsay, Sana Musasama, Dorothea Nold, and KyoungHwa Oh.

Supported by the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation, the exhibition highlights outstanding contemporary ceramic artists from Minnesota, across the U.S., and around the world.

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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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Join us this May as Northern Clay Center celebrates the creativity of our member community through the 2026 Members Exhibition.

Featuring a juried selection of work by students, educators, professional artists, and first-time makers, the exhibition highlights the many voices that make our clay community vibrant.

Alongside the Main Gallery exhibition, NCC is proud to showcase work by local K–12 educators and their students, celebrating the impact of arts education through clay.

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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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Seven pottery studios will host Sixty-eight potters from twenty states.

They will present months of handmade work for sale amid the hospitality of our local potters at their rural studios.

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The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota.

Always held on Mothers’ Day weekend, The Tour is an opportunity to explore seven studios, each with distinctive character, and purchase pots from dozens of guest artists and nine host potters.

The studios are a short drive from each other, allowing some or all to be visited in a single day, and within an hour drive of the Twin Cities. Admission is free and open to everyone.

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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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Learn about the rich, storied history of Swedish flax growing and linen processing from ancient times to today.

Discover the steps involved in growing, harvesting, and processing flax fiber for making linen. Students will have hands-on experience processing flax stalks into spinnable fibers using traditional hand tools.

Suitable for ages 18+. $75 ($65 ASI member) + $30 materials fee payable to instructor.

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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).

Create a magical wand to incorporate into imaginative play! Elementary school art teacher Anna Ruhland will lead kids in shaping and decorating magical wands using the traditional needle-felting technique.

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Where do Birch and Pine trees, as well as blueberries and sweetgrass, grow? Sápmi and Minnesota! Many plants in the boreal region grow in both the northernmost part of the Scandinavian Peninsula of Europe and around the Great Lakes region.

This Boreal Plant Walk sets out at a Twin Cities location and takes a stroll through the woods, stopping to learn about plants that grow in both regions and their North Sámi and English names. $25 ($20 ASI member).

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Dive into the art of fabric stenciling!

Taking inspiration from textile artist Kirsten Aune’s colorful, bold patterns and modern Scandinavian designs, students will create their own stencils and use them to decorate fabric for a cute and versatile bento bag. After learning the basics of fabric stenciling, you will be ready to decorate fabric for many projects.

Suitable for ages 18+. $90 ($80 ASI member) + $35 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Design your own seasonal floral centerpiece in this beginner-friendly class!

Join Elle, farmer-florist at Mellifera Flowers, to learn the basics of floral design. Using a stunning array of locally grown flowers, students will create their own centerpiece in class and head home with the ability to transform flowers from the garden, market, or store into organic and unique arrangements.

Suitable for ages 18+. $65 ($55 ASI member) + $45 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Carvers of all experience levels can join this three-day flat plane figure carving class.

Using only a knife, students will carve a Nordic-inspired character in a simplified, traditional style. Expect plenty of discussion about the history of figure carving and notable carvers while finishing one or two carvings. Moderate hand strength and dexterity are required.

Suitable for ages 16+. $350 ($315 ASI member) + $10 materials fee per blank payable to instructor.

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Try out the art of lucet braiding, using a simple wooden hand tool to create colorful and durable cords.

These are perfect for using as lanyards, shoelaces, replacing a cord on a bag or hoodie, and anything else you can think up.

Suitable for ages 16+. $65 ($55 ASI member), + $10 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Make a sweet garland of colorful woolly flowers!

Felter Jen will lead kids and their special adults in shaping and decorating wool flowers using the magical needle felting technique before stringing them onto a garland.

This project is especially suited for younger participants—suitable for ages 5-10 alongside an adult. $55 adult/child pair ($45 ASI member adult/child pair); $20 additional youth ($15 ASI member additional youth) + $25 materials fee payable to instructor.

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