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    Forging New Paths

    Rachel David, Elizabeth Brim, and Ellen Durkan take artistic blacksmithing into new territory.
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    Craft Happenings: Summer 2022

    Is it summer already? Now's the time to fill out your calendar with craft exhibitions, symposiums, festivals, and more. Here are 25 events happening across the country for you to check out, organized by the month in which they start.
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    The Assembler

    Carin Jones has been working as a full-time artist for 11 years but still has a hard time calling herself one. “I don’t envision an idea and make it come to life,” says the jeweler who lives in Kingston, Washington, and whose work is inspired by the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. “I let the materials direct me."
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    The Queue: Alice Fujii

    Based in La Crescenta, California, Alice Fujii is a ceramist whose berry bowl is featured in the Market section of our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, she shares her favorite tool, a porcelain artist she admires, and the science fiction show she devoured during the pandemic.
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    Vasylkiv Cockerel

    After a high-rise building in Borodianka, Ukraine, collapsed under Russian shelling, journalist-photographer Elizaveta Servatyanska looked up and saw in the ruins an undamaged rooster-shaped ceramic jug atop a kitchen cabinet.
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    Hip Hop Glassmaker

    Leo Tecosky does more than make graffiti in glass—he captures the spirit of a cultural movement.
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    The Queue: Thomas Little

    Thomas Little is an ink and pigment maker based in North Carolina whose work transforming guns into ink is featured in our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, he shares his methods for decreasing harm in a violent world and his unusual collaboration with nature.
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    The Queue: Carin Jones

    Carin Jones is the Washington-based jeweler behind Jonesing for Jewelry and a featured artist in the Summer 2022 issue of American Craft. In The Queue, she reflects on her zoological background, her favorite tool, and what she’s been watching.
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    An Homage to Yugi

    The bronze tableware that my Korean family filled with offerings to our ancestors nourishes me as an artist—and a human.
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    Showtime

    From a fair in Vermont to the ACC Shows—now called American Craft Made—the ACC has been connecting artists and craft lovers since 1966.
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    The Queue: Angel Yoon Kyung Cho

    Based in Barcelona, Angel Yoon Kyung Cho is a graphic designer and ceramist whose writing about Korean yugi bronzeware and family ritual appears in our Summer 2022 issue. In The Queue, she shares her methods for staying grounded, her unusual drawing tools, and an artist she admires.
  • model wearing an ornte gold paper dress standing before a surrealist painting depicting a man seated on a chair

    Wearing the Truth

    With her sculpted paper dresses, Fabiola Jean-Louis unflinchingly confronts history and imagines Black futures.
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    The Queue: Tina Fossella

    Tina Fossella is a ceramist based in Mill Valley, California. Her bright, simple berry bowl is featured in the Market section of our Summer 2022 issue, and she’ll also be an exhibitor in our upcoming American Craft Made / Baltimore online marketplace! In The Queue, she shares how her work is informed by the spiritual and sacred, how she connects with customers, and what she’s been reading.