Founded in 2004, Handmade Arcade is a nonprofit that provides makers and craftspeople with opportunities to connect with customers and strengthen their small businesses. Handmade Arcade’s flagship event is the annual Holiday Market, which is the region’s largest handmade shopping event, connecting over 275 makers with more than 10,000 shoppers each year.

In addition to the Holiday Market, Handmade Arcade hosts an annual Emerging Craft Market for early career makers and will launch a new fine craft market called the Modern Craft Market in March 2026, supported by Contemporary Craft.

Handmade Arcade also helps makers connect to shoppers through an online Maker Directory, digital maker storytelling, professional development workshops, and more. Additionally, Handmade Arcade leads annual maker accelerator programs, including a BIPOC Maker Accelerator program and a Youth Maker Accelerator program. Handmade Arcade is dedicated to supporting the economic mobility of makers and craftspeople in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.

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Peregrination, a long and meandering journey…

This exhibition features work by Toronto based artist, Xiaojing Yan. Through the lens of personal migration and cultural hybridity, Yan explores the evolving relationship between identity, tradition, and the natural world. Yan’s art reflects a journey of transformation – an intricate weaving of folklore, ritual, and nature into a symbolic and dreamlike representation of lived experience.

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Working at a Joyous Creative Thing: Weaving, Making, and Material Culture in Letty Esherick’s Legacy, highlights Artist-in-Residency Kelly Cobb’s ongoing research and creative work at WEM. It marks the first public presentation of Letty Esherick’s textiles in at least five decades. They are shown alongside new works by Cobb, as well as artworks across disciplines by a group of skilled collaborators that range from handmade garments to sound art to embroidery.

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Moki Cherry lived a nomadic life, traveling with her family between Sweden, London and New York and even around the globe. She always brought her fabric and sewing machine with her, creating portable artwork that could roll up and travel wherever they went.

Learn to create your own on-the-go art in the form of a colorful, patchwork tapestry.

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

$15 Public | $5 Students | $5 FWM members
Space is limited. Advance reservations encouraged

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Step inside The Living Temple—a vibrant retrospective celebrating the boundary‑breaking Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009), whose life was her canvas.

From colorful textiles, costumes, and posters to ceramics, video, and sound, Moki’s work dissolves the line between home and stage, art and everyday life.

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Working across painting, textiles, and musical performance, Lisa Alvarado creates works rich with visual and sonic resonance.

Through new work created during her residency, Alvarado invites viewers into a meditative environment where she weaves together ancestral memory, collective history, and the land as both record and source of renewal.

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Clay as Care considers ways in which care manifests in ceramic art and how viewing art and working with clay can promote personal and communal health. Featuring artists whose practices address healing, rest, and resilience, including Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Ehren Tool, and Maia Chao. A reflection of the values of care that we see as inherent in the act of making art with clay.

Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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An exhibition documenting the history and career of one of Pennsylvania’s preeminent glass artists and Pittsburgh Glass Center co-founder, Kathleen Mulcahy. The exhibition will include Mulcahy’s work from 2001 to the present. Works from Ron Desmett will also be included in the exhibition. Though Ron is deceased he was a significant partner in the development of Pittsburgh Glass Center.

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For 25 years Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) has been growing a vibrant community of glass artists. Today that community includes hundreds of glass artists who have moved to Pittsburgh to live and make their art and those that have become passionate about glass by learning and teaching at PGC.

Gathered Locally highlights some of the glass artists who live and create in Pittsburgh.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show is produced by The Women’s Committee and Craft Show Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  This annual juried event is held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall F, 12th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia.  The 49th Annual Show will be held on November 6-9, 2025.  The 50th year celebration in 2026 will be held on November 5-8.

Each year, the Craft Show features unique, one-of-a-kind works by 195 artists from across the United States representing 13 diverse categories of craft and design.   Categories include objects made of clay, fiber, glass, metal, and wood as well as jewelry, furniture and art-to-wear.  All work is for sale, and no sales commission is taken.

The Show’s sole beneficiary is the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  To date, the Craft Show has contributed more than $15 million to the museum for the support a variety of programs, exhibitions, publications and acquisitions of contemporary craft.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art—in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe—seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collections in particular, and the visual arts in general, to an increasing and increasingly diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and lifelong learning.

We are committed to being the cultural heart of Philadelphia. Learn about who we are, what we value, and how we connect people to the arts.

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Touchstone Center for Crafts is nestled within 230 acres of lush woodlands, just 60 miles south of Pittsburgh in the scenic Laurel Highlands. Our campus features fully equipped studios, professional exhibition galleries, on-site lodging, and is surrounded by towering trees, rushing streams, and the calming sights and sounds of nature—creating the ideal setting to explore, create, and expand your artistic skills.

In addition to our main campus, we are excited to expand programming into nearby Ohiopyle through Touchstone by the Falls—a new space designed to increase accessibility and foster deeper creative engagement throughout the region.

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The Clay Studio inspires curiosity and discovery around the art and craft of clay, drawing together students, artists, and an engaged public into a welcoming community. Every day, in our classrooms, studios, galleries, and neighborhoods, we deepen the connection between people and clay with the highest quality programs and exhibitions. Founded in 1974, The Clay Studio continues in the belief that shared creativity, so fundamental to humanity, is a critical force for good.

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The Wharton Esherick Museum is the home and studio of famed American artist Wharton Esherick, located atop Valley Forge Mountain in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Set on 12 wooded acres, the Museum campus is comprised of multiple buildings including Wharton Esherick’s Studio, which is now the centerpiece of the Museum. Esherick’s highly individual, hand-built Studio was constructed over a 40-year period beginning in 1926, incorporating Arts and Crafts, Expressionist, and organic designs. Two years later Esherick began his 1928 Expressionist garage, now our Visitor Center. In 1973, just one year after its official opening as a museum, the Studio was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993, the Museum was designated a National Historic Landmark for Architecture.

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Explore the historical significance of Methodism in the oldest continuously used Methodist church building in America, purchased in 1769.

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