Janet Koplos has been a highly influential voice in framing the critical discourse on contemporary craft and became an American Craft Council Honorary Fellow in 2010.

Tina Oldknow became an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council College in 2014. She is a well-known curator of modern glass and helped redesign the modern and contemporary glass galleries at Corning Museum of Glass.

Bruce Pepich, 2012 American Craft Council Honorary Fellow, is the director and curator of collections at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin.