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The Craft in America Study Center in Los Angeles is featuring a three-part series of exhibitions focusing on the intersection of contemporary craft and food, “Good Enough to Eat: the Fusion of Food and Craft.” These shows explore work by innovators who are redefining craft and the new role that it serves in our increasingly food-centric culture.

An overview of the influential potter's work and that of her children and grandchildren.

The application period for the 2013 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show is December 3, 2012 to April 1, 2013.

The 37th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a juried exhibition and retail sale, will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center November 7-10, 2013, with a preview party on November 6. The jury will accept 195 craft artists.

This exhibition focuses on the art, philosophy, and storytelling of artist Binh Pho.

This exhibition showcases the unique work and skill of internationally renowned sculptor, woodcarver, and printmaker John Buck. The artist creates intricately carved woodblocks, which he uses to make prints by hand rubbing rather than through mechanical processing. This labor-intensive technique produces prints that are high in quality and limited in edition.

Raphael Prize/Ceramics; $5,000 prize, catalogue, show, video; jurors: Joshua Green, Jae Won Lee; deadline 6/14/13. Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. Entry form: www.contemporarycraft.org, or email exhibitions@contemporarycraft.org.

A visit to a foundry changed Cecil Humphreys' artistic direction from painting and printmaking to bronze.

Artist, educator, and architect Dennis Maher invited tradespeople to make sculptures in his house using materials of their trade.

The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents Scratching the Surface: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, an exhibition featuring the works of nine contemporary artists whose unique sculptural forms capitalize on the naturally occurring textures and irregularities of wood.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce the 17th Annual "No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art." The exhibition will take place September 3–28, 2013 with an open call for artists’ submissions through June 15.

A juried ceramics exhibition that happens both live and online.

Ceramic artist Linda Huey transforms an entire gallery into a somber, courtyard-type garden

A Matter of Time
October 25, 2013 -May 31, 2014
Exhibition site: The National Watch and Clock Museum, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Submissions due: August 30, 2013
The National Watch and Clock Museum
514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512

Artist and designer Molly Hatch grew up on an organic dairy farm in Vermont surrounded by antique decorative objects from her mother’s family, prosperous Boston merchants who used Chinese export porcelain as ballast in their ships. Hatch became an artist with a passion for the decorative arts and the dialog between old and new.

This yearlong exhibition shines a light on the sharply witty work of glassblower Richard Marquis.

Blue and white porcelain has a long history, with roots all over the world. Contemporary artists continue the story, creating blue and white works with themes political, personal, or abstract.

Kim Cridler explores the enduring significance of the vessel form.

Yoko Sekino-Bove moved to the United States 17 years ago and made a hobby of translating one culture to another and connecting them. In this series, she applies this approach to ceramics. By using small conversation instead of abstract fear and anger, she is able to show us through her work that we are more similar than different.

Iconic collection of 54 art quilts by leading American textile artists, each quilt representing a playing card from a deck of cards. Other exhibits include Images of Time by Pacific Quilt Artists, Children's Book challenges by Canyon Quilters of San Diego and Fortune Telling challenges by Visions members. Reception March 9, 5-7 p.m. Admission $5, Visions members free.

An Errant Line represents a mutual engagement with cloth that artists Ann Hamilton and Cynthia Schira have had over several decades. As the artists delved into the Spencer Museum's extensive collections, they considered how unique access to these pieces might become material for their own work.

Art quilts by Beth Carney.

Art quilts portray detailed scenes from nature.

This two-phase exhibition aims to bring a fresh view of an everyday object: bowls.

The Museum of Arts and Design showcases its collection of art jewelry.

Exuberance, whimsy, refinement, craftsmanship: All describe the kinetic weather-driven machines in this exhibition of works from whirligig makers, local collectors, and the museum's permanent collection.

Sculptures created with zippers.

Glass sculptor Jay Musler has an unusual and eccentric style.

Textiles of the Lowcountry: Charleston and Savannah
Collecting, Preserving, and Narrating: A TSA Study Tour
April 2 – 7, 2013
Registration Deadline: February 15, 2013

"Celebrating the Stars of Today and Tomorrow" is the theme of this festive weekend. During Spring Craft Weekend, the Alliance will present Master of the Medium awards to distinguished craft artists:
      
     * Adrian Saxe, Ceramics
    *  Mary Giles, Fiber
    *  Paul Stankard, Glass
    *  Bruce Metcalf, Metal
    *  William Hunter, Wood
  

Rebecca Hutchinson creates a new version of her Accommodation series at the Museum of Craft and Design.

This popular mid-Atlantic event presents high-quality folk and contemporary craft.

Decorative arts are among the only surviving elements of those evanescent extravaganzas, World's Fairs.

Craftboston Spring Show and Preview Party

Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass has assembled a fabulous collection from some of their favorite artists for their “Jewelry Trunk Show.” Artists have been asked to create one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces for this event. This stunning collection of jewelry will be available through May 25.

Maps were once far more than merely ways to find a route.

Twelve renowned craft artists will show their latest handmade jewelry and clothing at this intimate trunk show, timed to coincide with the Smithsonian Craft Show happening one block away.

Twelve accomplished craft artists will exhibit their latest jewelry and garments in an intimate trunk show. This event is timed to coincide with the first two days of the Smithsonian Craft Show, taking place at the National Building Museum, just one small block away from dcTrunk.

Seventeen ceramic artists welcome visitors on a tour of western Massachusetts studios.

Spruce Pine Main Street and Penland School of Crafts present the annual Fire On the Mountain festival, to celebrate blacksmithing's deep roots in Western North Carolina, and broaden awareness of quality contemporary iron work. Experience a day of forging techniques and ferrous materials!