Carolyn Mazloomi’s new 19 ft masterpiece quilt Chasing Freedom is not just a work of art, it’s an American chronicle made tangible — teaching us history is not only the past, but also what we do with it.

“This quilt covers some of the most important milestones in Black history. The work is a visual approach to sometimes difficult subjects within Black history, while illustrating the struggles and triumphs of Black communities around the country.” – C. Mazloomi

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Claire Oliver Gallery is located in Central Harlem in a four-story brownstone. For 34 years, Claire Oliver Gallery has showcased and celebrated important artwork, with a focus on work by underrepresented communities, which transcends and challenges the traditional art historical canon. Our forward-thinking program and exclusive commitment to the primary market allows for an intensive focus that has nurtured and grown the careers of our artists.

Many of the gallery’s artists have been included in The Venice Biennale, The Whitney Biennial, and biennales in Sydney, Pittsburgh, and Lyon. Our Gallery’s artists have exhibited works in major international museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Center Georges Pompidou, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art amongst many others.

Claire Oliver Gallery artists are included in the permanent collections of many important museums worldwide including MoMA, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage Museum, and many many others. Gallery artists have received prestigious fellowships including Fulbright, Guggenheim, USArtist, and National Endowment for the Arts.

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In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works is pleased to announce Suzanne Sullivan’s solo exhibition, The Wilderness of Mirrors.

On view April 18th to June 7th, this installation features new hand-built porcelain works by the artist. Sullivan has stepped into the world of double agents and clandestine operatives, of secret codes and paranoia, and with her signature fantastical porcelain creations, Sullivan has crafted her own wilderness of mirrors for both reflection and interrogation.

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Nest is a nonprofit committed to helping US and global craft communities grow and thrive. We understand the importance of handcraft and the meaning it can hold for every life it touches. That’s why we connect a community of artisans, retailers and philanthropies to bring the full beauty of craft to the world.

Nest uplifts makers and artisans through tools and resources to develop their entrepreneurial skills, connect with others, and improve their economic independence. By leveraging human-centered design, artisans and makers co-create their experience with Nest based on their business priorities. They are able to drive their experience and match Nest’s resources to their needs. We help handcraft businesses grow by fostering collaborative partnerships that put artisans and makers at the center of transforming business and society. And we celebrate the stories of the people, places and traditions of handcraft that bring us all closer together.

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The MFA Textiles Program in the School of Fashion at the Parsons School of Design is pleased to welcome Jamie Okuma for the Handwork 2026 Artist Residency, as part of Handwork 2026 presented by Craft in America. We invite you to join us in celebrating the artist residency at a Meet & Greet Reception with Jamie Okuma.

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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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Winner of MAD’s biannual prize, Hai-Wen Lin explores the attunement of the body to the environment through fashion, sculpture, and kite making.

Their works—described as “couture for the wind”—merge garment construction with flight engineering, resulting in textiles and sculptural kites that can be both worn and flown.

Dyeing fabrics with sunlight and designing kites that double as garments, Lin collapses boundaries between art, design, and performance through poetic encounters with the elements.

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Fragile, luminous, and enduring, porcelain becomes a medium for rethinking plant life in the modern city in Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium, an installation of the artist’s large-scale porcelain wall murals inspired by botanical imagery drawn from medieval tapestries, French decorative arts, mythology, and sustained observation of plant life.

The first major U.S. museum presentation of Riehl’s work, this exhibition underscores MAD’s commitment to contemporary craft and material innovation.

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For over 20 years, R & Company has championed collectible design, advancing the contemporary marketplace and growing a global collector base and clientele. Its founders, Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, are widely recognized for identifying rising talent, deepening scholarship about collectible design, and developing new avenues for growth in the industry.

The gallery is committed to nurturing and sustaining the markets and careers of emerging and established designers, and maintaining and expanding interest in historical design. Its roster features a wide range of designers from around the globe, including Wendell Castle, Rogan Gregory, Greta Magnusson Grossman, the Haas Brothers, Serban Ionescu, Hun-Chung Lee, Joyce Lin, Roberto Lugo, Richard Marquis, Jolie Ngo, Sayar & Garibeh, Katie Stout, Joaquim Tenreiro, and Jeff Zimmerman, among others. Through its acclaimed exhibitions, publications, and fair presentations, the gallery has become a leader in the field, fostering relationships with collectors, cultural leaders, dedicated patrons, and scholars.

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Mounted during the celebration of the United States semiquincentennial, Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States draws from the American Folk Art Museum’s rich collections to explore links between vernacular art and the construction of an American sense of self.

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Founded in 1961, the American Folk Art Museum is a global leader dedicated to the preservation and promotion of folk and self-taught art across time and place.

Candid, genuine, and unexpected, the Museum celebrates the creativity of individuals whose singular talents have been refined largely through personal experience rather than formal artistic training.

With a collection spanning 7,500 works of art from four centuries and nearly every continent, AFAM engages people of all backgrounds through its collections, exhibitions, publications, and public programs as the leading forum shaping the understanding and appreciation of folk and self-taught art.

Thanks to the generous support of our members, patrons, and donors, admission to the Museum is always free.

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In this five day intensive, you will learn to cut, carve, fit, and fuse colorful stone compositions, transforming sketches and photographs into polished motifs. This nontraditional take on a time honored craft blends technique with intuition and imagination.

You will shape, join, and refine stones guided by exercises inspired by personal and environmental sources. Using cabbing machines, flat laps, and trim saws, you will bring your designs to life with precision and play.

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2024–25 Lab Grant Residency Artist Sam Moyer will discuss her experience working at Dieu Donné Paper Mill to develop her first series of handmade paper works.

In her series Soft Mods, she used alternating layers of translucent abaca and pigmented cotton, in shades of Payne’s grey. Working intuitively, Moyer manipulated paper pulp in a sculptural way, creating images that seem composed of light and shadow.

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12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

This virtual artist talk will feature Timothy Barrett and Paul Wong discussing how they each developed archival, conservation-quality papers that were used to rebind or rehouse national treasures in our libraries and archives.

Moderated by Director of Artistic Projects & Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg.

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