Meet Cedric Mitchell, one of the artists who has made The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass his creative home.

The Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program brings artists from around the world to Corning, NY, giving them uninterrupted time to explore new techniques or push the boundaries of their practice with support from the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum.

Meet Victoria Ahamadizadeh Melendez, one of the artists who has made The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass her creative home.

The Studio’s Artist-in-Residence program brings artists from around the world to Corning, NY, giving them uninterrupted time to explore new techniques or push the boundaries of their practice with support from the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum.

In this recording, rosemaler Louise Bath shares the remarkable artwork and life stories of 15 Vesterheim Gold Medalist rosemalers (Norwegian decorative painting).

Every other year, Vesterheim hosts a judeged show The National Norwegian-American Folk Art Exhibition featuring contemporary artists who create folk art rooted in the Norwegian traditions of rosemaling, woodworking, weaving, metalworking, and knifemaking.

Artists submit work for evaluation by a team of judges, who offer feedback on their entries and award ribbons, which carry points that accumulate toward a Vesterheim Gold Medal. Over 150 artists are now Vesterheim Gold Medalists, and inspiring stories celebrate and uplift Norwegian-American folk art.

Interview with Ceramics Visiting Resident Pierce Haley (Nov 2025-May 2026).

Originally from Orinda, California, Haley’s artistic vision has been significantly shaped by his father’s work as an architect, particularly in modern mid-century architecture. Haley uses a combination of 3-D printing, slip casting, and mold making to create large installations and tessellations.

Visit us at Belgerarts.org to stay updated on our events and future artist talks. Artist talks by Belger Arts are FREE to the public.

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As a pigment, blue was historically rare and expensive, reserved for those of high status, a symbol of their purity, prosperity, and wealth, but modern chemical dyes now make blue the most commonly used color in fashion, products and packaging. Blue is all around us.

SAQA Global Exhibition Color in Context: Blue provides a diverse interpretation of the color. In this Textile Talk, we view the exhibition and speak with exhibiting artists Stefanie Neuner, Rhoda Bennett, and Jennifer Solon. We’ll also hear about the exhibition premiere at Carrefour – The European Quilt Show.

We meet bootmaker Graham Ebner in Austin, Texas, where he crafts bespoke cowboy boots. He uses traditional bookmaking techniques paired with his creative and original style to tell stories through his custom, high-quality boots. Segment from WEST episode.

WEST celebrates the continuum of heritage and the handmade, taking inspiration from the landscape, history and culture of the American West. Working across cowboy arts, Hawaiian indigenous practices, and Native American handwork, the artists show how traditional craft can be revived, reworked and reinvented in the art of today.

The featured artists and institutions include Graham Ebner, Institute of American Indian Arts, Poakalani Quilters, Hōkūleʻa/Polynesian Voyaging Society, Marques Hanalei Marzan, Kawika Lum-Nelmida, Bishop Museum, and Cary Schwarz.

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Neon artists Meryl Pataky and Kelsey Issel bend glass to its limits in this year’s edition of The Rockwell Museum’s Antigravity installation. A site-specific work of art created for the Museum’s rotunda, Pataky and Issel, founders of the neon workers collective, She Bends, True Gravity references textiles and investigates the idea of “true gravity:” a condition in which the body yields to what the material and the environment already intend.

Working within tensions of hard and soft, control and happenstance, and isolation and interdependence, Pataky and Issel’s sculptural neon invites the viewer to rethink the potential of glass and light.

As part of their week-long residency to install at The Rockwell Museum, Pataky and Issel were invited to the Corning Museum of Glass’s Amphitheater Hot Shop, allowing them to experiment with new techniques that bring their artistic vision to life in glass. See this installation at The Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY through March 2027.

In this short video you will discover the signature process for making an Aquascape Glass sculpture created by artist Sean Free Alcala. Sean is a second generation glass artist who has been working with glass for over twenty years and aims to capture the flow of water within his dynamic glass forms. His technique combines glass fusing principles and kiln-casting techniques, as well as various hot glass elements. This video also shows different cold working tools that can be used to shape, polishing and  finish glass sculptures. The three dimensional sculpture is a unique example of how glass can capture color, form and interior composition.

Visit Sean at booth #9 at the fabulous ACGA Clay & Glass Festival coming back to the Palo Alto Art Center the weekend of July 11-12, 2026, with 130+ of California’s most celebrated artists.

Come for the art, stay for the Throwdown and demos. Valet parking, food trucks, and Clay for All.More information at link in bio.

Featured: Sean Alcala:  https://alcaladesigns.com

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Explore the artistic process and inspiration of textile artist Holly Guertin in this PA Fibershed Meet the Makers member highlight. Here, Guertin is working on artworks that are included in her debut solo exhibition, Hand in Hand, at Waterworks Visual Arts Center with Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 by Craft in America.

This video series by PA Fibershed offers an in-depth look at Pennsylvania’s textile value chain, sustainable textiles, and the growing movement to rebuild a local, regenerative fiber economy. Discover how makers like Holly are reimagining textile design through upcycling, natural fibers, and circular fashion practices, while actively contributing to a more resilient and regionally based textile system.

Explore Holly’s work:https://hollyguertin.com/

Learn more about PA Fibershed: https://pafibershed.org/

April Zilber makes musical glass bell plates with fused glass and metal foil. Each bell plate is tuned to two notes. Depending on the ratio of length to width, the notes make the musical interval of a minor third, major third, fourth, fifth, and so on. More information @aprilzilberglass .

Meet the artist in person at the fabulous ACGA Clay & Glass Festival is coming back to the Palo Alto Art Center the weekend of July 11-12, 2026 with 130+ of California’s most celebrated artists.

Come for the art, stay for the Throwdown and demos. Valet parking, food trucks, and Clay for All.  More information @theacga

Every piece has a story, and at the festival, you get to hear it directly from the makers themselves.

Discover work from 130+ juried California artists and find pieces that speak to you, whether you’re a longtime collector or buying your very first handmade work.

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In this short video, Hannah and Alana of Nicholson van Altena Glass create a California Poppy Vessel from their Cactus Vessel Series. During the video, Alana explains how the women began their journey in glass and what they hope to achieve with their artwork.

Artist Sara Garden Armstrong reflects on her career in hand papermaking and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

Artist Nancy Cohen reflects on her career in hand papermaking and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

Artist Helen Hiebert reflects on her career in hand papermaking and and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

Nest is a nonprofit that understands the importance of handcraft and the meaning it can hold for every life it touches. By uplifting and investing in diverse artisans, their stories, and their handcraft, Nest creates ripples of impact that ensure the world is not only more beautiful, but more equitable and sustainable too.

Informed by artisan and maker perspectives, Nest’s programs are thoughtfully designed to prepare creative entrepreneurs with the training, resources, and opportunities they need to grow and sustain their businesses. And, the best part is – all are provided at no cost for makers and artisans ensuring accessibility, equitable, and sustainable access!

Visit buildanest.org to learn more!

M&S Schmalberg Flowers

A glimpse into the handmade process at M&S Schmalberg, the last remaining fabric flower factory in the United States. Starting with a simple piece of fabric, the video follows the transformation through vintage die cutting, embossing, and hand assembly, ending with a finished flower made entirely by hand in New York City.

Marcus Mitchell, former Making Whole apprentice turned concrete lead and mentor, shares a portion of his recovery story and speaks to the magic this program can offer when you both surrender and commit to the process.

he Living Treasures Project Committee keeps a vetted list of candidate artists and art advocates, each of which has met the selection standards it set down at the start of the project. In short, anyone selected for a project must be a leader, mentor of other artists, motivator, and innovator. It should be no surprise that Lloyd Herman has always been near the top of that list. As founding director of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in 1972, Lloyd’s dream was to have craft, art and design join its rightful place among the Smithsonian’s family of museums in the heart of the nation’s capitol for all to learn and enjoy the world over. He’s done that, and much more.

In the thirty-one years since retiring from the Smithsonian Institution, he has continued to curate exhibitions on craft and design topics for such clients as the United States Information Agency, the Smithsonian Institution and various museums and traveling exhibition services. He has lectured on American crafts throughout the United States, and in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Japan, and has juried numerous art competitions in the United States and abroad.

He is an Honorary Lifetime Member of Northwest Designer Craftsmen, a member of the American Alliance of Museums, an honorary member of the American Society of Interior Designers, an honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council, trustee/secretary of the Highline Historical Society, and has been decorated by the monarchs of Denmark and Belgium for exhibitions that he organized on the crafts of their countries.

Tip Toland is a courageous ceramic artist and sculptor, both in the scale of her work and her choice of subjects. Her work is in many major collections across the country, including the Renwick Smithsnonion Gallery and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This documentary tells the story of her life, through the good and hard, which formed the artist she is today…

Enjoy this documentary on the life of Seattle jewelry artist, teacher, and world traveler, Ron Ho. He enjoyed local and national prominence as a contemporary jewelry artist and teacher. His work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the prestigious Houston Museum of Fine Arts Helen Williams Drutt Jewelry Collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Tacoma Art Museum Studio Art Jewelry Collection. An oral history of his life is also held at the Smithsonian Institution.

“My father said this and I repeat it,
‘If you don’t support your artists you
won’t have them’.”

Anne Gould Hauberg was a dedicated patron and advocate for the arts and individual artists for over sixty-five years. She was a lifelong resident of Seattle where she held a central position in the establishment of organizations that offer support for artists in both the Pacific Northwest and national arts communities, art classes for therapy, and artistic development for children at risk. She was the founder, in partnership with John Hauberg and Dale Chihuly, of Pilchuck Glass School, launched the Pacific Northwest Arts Council of the Seattle Art Museum, and founded Friends of the Crafts as well as Pacific Art Center.

In recognition of her vision Anne Gould Hauberg has been granted many awards including the American Craft Museum Visionary Award, American Craft Council Aileen Osburn Webb Award, and the King County Arts Commission Service Award. She served two terms on Seattle Arts Commission and served on the Board of Directors of Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, and Pletscheef Institute.

“Learn more than anyone else knows about a single subject and the world will beat a path to your door.”

As a young woman, in the 1930’s, Virginia Harvey developed an interest in weaving. Over the next sixty-five years that interest led her to become one of the most influential individuals of her generation to write, teach, publish, and research the textile arts. Two of her books, “Macramé, The Art of Creative Knotting” and “Techniques of Basketry” have influenced generations of artists and craftsmen. Both introduced new ideas and techniques that are now a standard part macramé cupof the artistic vernacular.

Virginia was the first curator of the Costume and Textile Study Center at the University of Washington where she designed a storage system for textiles that was so innovative it was adopted by countless institutions around the world and is still in use today. Her ingenious system for cataloging textiles, initiated in the 1950s, has become invaluable to museums and textile researchers and continues on an international level.

A lifetime of mentoring, teaching, and research led to Virginia’s induction as an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council. Her sharp intellect and graciousness put her at the center in a web of personal and professional contacts, sharing information about plaiting, knotting, wrapping, and weaving with craftsmen – both professional and amateur, museum professionals, art historians, industrial designers, and space scientists. This video will give you a glimpse of the vast impact an individual can make when armed with curiosity, dedication and a generous spirit.

“My father was only interested in traditional design and I wasn’t satisfied with that. I would like to make something that hasn’t been made before.”– Evert Sodergren

Born in 1920, a fourth generation furniture maker, Evert Sodergren grew up in a family of Swedish immigrants in Seattle, Washington. From the age of 15, working alongside his father, he learned both the art and economics of building fine furniture. In 1939 he went to work at the Boeing Company where for eight years he built test model aircraft — exacting work done to precise tolerances that was critical to the war effort.

In the 1950’s, Sodergren Furniture, the custom shop he founded with his father, began producing his original designs for modern furniture. From his sojourn in the aircraft industry, he carried a dedication to precision, advanced skills in metal fabrication (he creates almost all of the hardware for his furniture), and innovative ideas using techniques and materials developed for aircraft.

It was unheard of at that time for a custom shop to create work on speculation. The custom market was for kitchen cabinets and historic reproductions produced on commission. Evert’s pioneering efforts to get contemporary woodworking in front of the public grew into the acceptance of woodworking as an art to be displayed in galleries and exhibitions.

From 1952 – 1978 Evert taught furniture design and construction to architecture, interior and industrial design students at the University of Washington. But it is through maintaining the traditional apprenticeship system in his own shop, that Evert Sodergren passes on the skills, high standards, and survival techniques necessary for a life, lived well, in the crafts.

Evert Sodergren maintains his shop, Sodergren Atelier, where he prides himself on the ability to solve any design problem presented to him by a client. He has worked with some of the finest architects and designers in the region. For more information about his work, see his Web site: www.sodergrenfurniture.com

“The purpose of art is to create wonder”.

Over 50 years ago Harold Balazs quit his day-job. Armed with talent, ambition, an art degree, and an acetylene torch, he set out to make a living making art in Spokane, Washington. He has succeeded, but not without struggle. Mastering the economics of an artist’s life led him to master an incredible array of media. Harold Balazs is a sculptor, a painter, an enamelist, a jeweler, a woodcarver, a calligrapher, a public artist and more. He defies categorization.

Balazs’ architectural and public works can be seen all over the Northwest. His contributions to architecturally integrated art, often utilizing new materials and techniques, helped revive the importance of the individual craftsman at a time when civic architecture seemed its most anonymous. His collaborations with important regional architects have made an indelible impression on Northwest architecture. By the mid 1960’s Harold Balazs had become the leading liturgical artist in the Northwest.Harold Balazs artwork

His experience in public art led to three terms as a Washington State Arts Commissioner. He helped draft Washington State’s “percent for art” legislation.

Harold Balazs is internationally known for his large-scale enamels on steel. His ingenious techniques and ability to adapt studio practice to industrial settings has broadened the approach many artists use in enameling, expanding the possibilities for the medium.

Through his wide ranging artwork, his technical innovations, his generosity towards other artists and his omnivorous humanism, Harold Balazs has made himself an asset in the arts. His story is of value to us all.