Baltimore Show Keynote Speaker: Christopher Benfey

Before exploring contemporary trends at one of the nation’s largest craft shows, learn about American craft’s fascinating history. Join us to hear renowned writer Christopher Benfey, professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, whose essays and poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and Paris Review, among others. His recent memoir, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, traces his ancestry and his family’s contribution and devotion to craft, from Black Mountain College in North Carolina to the world-famous Bauhaus school in Germany. Benfey will talk about the issues he raises in this critically acclaimed book, one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012, and will address the changing nature of craft in America.

Open to the public. To purchase tickets, visit http://christopherbenfeyacc.eventbrite.com/

Ticketed admission includes entry to the retail show