Craft Happenings calendar

Charm Bracelet Workshop Weekend: Create Your Own Set of Amulets

This two-day workshop explores the history and meaning of portable amulets while introducing participants to key jewelry-making techniques.

Workshop Retreat: Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron

Join us July 23-26 for a creative intensive in Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron. In this immersive three-day workshop, participants will explore indigo through its many transformations from plant to pigment to vat. Working across multiple processes, students will gain a layered understanding of how indigo shifts in form, behavior, and color over time. Through […]

Poetry at AMOCA: Japanese Translation with Naoko Fujimoto

Join us at the museum for an afternoon of poetry with translator Naoko Fujimoto! Fujimoto’s latest book of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems is a collection of translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women’s literature flourished. […]

Spotlight Talk: Wharton Esherick in 1926

By now, you are likely well aware that 2026 marks the milestone centennial year for Wharton Esherick’s 1926 Studio. We’ve offered numerous programs exploring ways Esherick broke ground in his artistic practice with the creation of his purpose built Studio. However, what else was Wharton Esherick up to that year beyond building? Join us on […]

Reading Craft: Exploring a Discipline Through the Texts That Have Shaped It

In a four-week virtual course, participants will discuss key texts that have impacted craft history with Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher.

David Ellsworth Retrospective curated by Craig Edelbrock

This landmark retrospective features 50 years of master turner David Ellsworth’s work. The exhibition celebrates celebrating his legacy in elevating Appalachian woodturning into a global fine art form. This project is funded under an agreement with the State of Tennessee administered by the Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial.

“In Residence: 19th Edition” Opening Reception

Join HCCC to celebrate the opening of “In Residence: 19th Edition,” an annual exhibition celebrating the Center’s Artist Residency Program. The show features clay, fiber, and mixed-media works by HCCC’s 2025-2026 resident artists: Malene Djenaba Barnett, Roslyn Dupré, Candace Hicks, Katie Mongoven, Lorena Morales, Dominique Muñoz, Kendall Ross, and Grace Sachi Troxell.

Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk

Paintings, reliefs, collages, and jewelry join figurative works in terra-cotta, cast stone, and painted wood in this review of work by the lauded sculptor. The exhibition is organized around themes such as her struggles to establish herself as a female Jewish émigré artist in America, her innovative use of materials, and her unorthodox approaches to installation and sculpture.

2026 Avant-Garde Summer Handmade Market

Apply Now! 2026 Avant-Garde Summer Handmade Market Location: Market Square at Crocker Park 239 Market St. Westlake, OH 44145 Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026 Time: 11:00am-4:00pm Join us for a variety of food trucks and a large handmade market! This event is the perfect summer event. Spend the day shopping Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show […]

Hands-on Houston: YOU-nique Zines

Join HCCC and Zine Fest Houston to celebrate the closing of "Clutch City Craft" and explore self-expression by making a zine! Zines, short for “magazines,” are self-published, do-it-yourself booklets about any topic you can imagine! Get inspired by exploring "Clutch City Craft," which showcases how craft has shaped Houston’s cultural identity over the past 100 […]

In Residence: 19th Edition Curator and Artist Walkthrough

Join us for a walkthrough of “In Residence 19th Edition,” an annual group exhibition celebrating HCCC’s Artist Residency Program. This intimate tour with Curatorial Fellow Zaynab Hilal and exhibiting artists Roslyn Dupré, Candace Hicks, Katie Mongoven, Lorena Morales, and Dominique Muñoz will provide insight into the artists’ creative processes and conceptual foundations of their work.

The Art of Papercutting Workshop with Dylan Metrano

Artist Dylan Metrano will teach papercutting's history and explore various techniques with examples of traditional and contemporary styles.

Isamu Noguchi: I Am Not a Designer

Isamu Noguchi's first design retrospective in nearly 25 years, featuring nearly 200 objects, many never or rarely exhibited, spanning all facets of his creative output.

Concurrent Artists-in-Residence Exhibitions

Clay Art Center presents exhibitions from our 2025-2026 Residency cohort featuring: Rittenberg Artist-in-Residence Alvaro Villa, Second-Year Artist-in-Residence Carley Holzem, Second-Year Artist-in-Residence Christine Raposas, and Westchester Community Foundation Fellow Stephanie Perez. La House of Objects en el Orbital Alvaro Villa ALVARO as Ceramic Brujo welcomes viewers into La House of Objects en el Orbital to navigate […]

Can Craft Save America?

From weathervanes and trade signs to quilts, carvings, and painted portraiture, American folk art encompasses a wide range of handicraft practices dating back to the 17th century that symbolize ingenuity, independence, and pride, key values of American identity. The term, which emerged in the early twentieth century, has evolved over time, reflecting changes in the […]

Resident Artist Talks: Arden Carlson & Dominique Muñoz

Join HCCC for talks by current resident artists Arden Carlson (wood) and Dominique Muñoz (craft + photography). Discover the artistic processes of working craft artists and learn about their works of art, influences, and materials. After the talk, visit the residents’ open studios to learn more about their tools and explore their work up close! This […]

The Ridge Tapestries – A Community’s Story

The Ridge Tapestries depict the creativity and dedication of a community founded in a rural area of Northern California over 50 years ago, and their ongoing efforts to protect the watershed they call home. The stories of the San Juan Ridge, nestled on the western slope of the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, are told through […]

Bead Fest

Experience Bead Fest 2026, the ultimate destination for beaders and jewelry makers, at Valley Forge Casino Resort.

Clutch City Craft

The craft culture of Houston—the home of a nationally famous rodeo and NASA’s Space Center—includes handmade cowboy boots, mosaic street signs, and the fiber artists who design space suits. Those making practices and more will be on display in a show that’s part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, an initiative of Craft in America and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Stained Glass Honeycomb Workshop with Kolika Chatterjee

Artist Kolika Chatterjee will lead a stained glass workshops on honeycombs at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Guild Fine Craft Show: Mount Desert Island

Guild Fine Craft Show: Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic Campus 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor ME 04609 FRI, AUG 7: 5pm-8pm SAT, AUG 8: 10am-4pm SUN, AUG 9: 10am-4pm $5 weekend admission | under 18 free Free on-site parking The 49th Annual Guild Fine Craft Show: MDI returns to the beautiful seaside campus […]

Embroidered Portraits for Everyone

Turn a photo on your phone into a treasured heirloom with embroidery. If you’ve always admired embroidery, but wanted to create something special, and not from a kit, join Jamie Maloney for Embroidered Portraits for Everyone. In this in-depth workshop, she’ll take you step-by-step through the process of stitching a portrait from a photo of […]

Onyx Patchworks: An Artist Talk with Dr. Jaleesa Wells

Dr. Jaleesa Wells Onyx Patchworks Exhibition: July 16 – August 27, 2026 Artist Talk and Reception: August 13, 2026 Onyx Patchworks is a solo exhibition of Dr. Jaleesa Wells hosted by the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, showcasing her ongoing fiber art quilts series. In Onyx Patchworks, Dr. Wells explores Kentucky history through textile […]

Online Cowboy Art Talk #2

Silversmiths Beau Compton and Scott Hardy, and rawhide braider Leland Hensley from Cowboy Craft: Traditional Art of the West, will present on the history and intricacies of their highly specialized practices. There will be a Q & A at the end of the presentation.