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Glass artist Paul Marioni has died at his home in Mexico at the age of 85. An American Craft Council Fellow, he was a ma...
08/21/2026

Glass artist Paul Marioni has died at his home in Mexico at the age of 85. An American Craft Council Fellow, he was a major figure in the studio glass movement of the 1970s. Link in bio to read the full remembrance.

Indie Craft Parade has grown significantly from its scrappy beginnings. The annual market celebrating Southern makers, w...
08/21/2026

Indie Craft Parade has grown significantly from its scrappy beginnings. The annual market celebrating Southern makers, which will be held this September 11–13 at Judson Mill in Greenville, South Carolina, now attracts 7,000 to 9,000 visitors over three days and generates a $2 million local economic impact. Given those numbers, it’s easy to see how “people think it’s this big organization,” Erin Godbey, one of the show’s co-founders and organizers, says. “But there are only three of us—and we all have full-time careers outside of it.” Link in bio to read the full article.

From the ACC archives: Highlights from "The Great American Foot" exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the ...
08/20/2026

From the ACC archives: Highlights from "The Great American Foot" exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council. April 14 - June 3, 1978, New York, N.Y.

From the exhibition catalog:
An intricate and extraordinary appendage, the foot is essential not only to our mobility but to our very survival. This exhibition celebrates the foot in all its many aspects-function, fashion, symbolism, interpretation. As we researched the show, we were impressed with the enormous variety of objects and related material concerning this fundamental part of our body. The foot has danced, run and jumped through the art, entertainment, and sports of all cultures, and marched for innumerable social causes. It has explored virgin territories and has stepped on the moon. Artists, composers, and lyricists have been inspired by the foot and it has motivated designers to create coverings both practical and imaginative. THE GREAT AMERICAN FOOT was organized to emphasize and highlight, in a panoramic way, the many associations of the foot and foot coverings. It is hoped that this unique assemblage will help viewers to observe the foot in a new dimension, to become aware of its form and function, to see it in all its practical, humorous, and fanciful phases, and, finally, to appreciate it as the source of many of our creative inspirations and fantasies.
Paul J. Smith
Director, MCC

Did you know that ACC membership offers direct support for artists, makers, and the craft community while unlocking spec...
08/19/2026

Did you know that ACC membership offers direct support for artists, makers, and the craft community while unlocking special access to exhibitions, events, and discounts from a diverse network of partner organizations shaping the future of craft. Join ACC today and take advantage of exclusive partner discounts and opportunities. Link in bio to learn more and become a member!

Submit your fall events and opportunities! Summer’s not over yet, but fall is just around the corner. Now’s the time to ...
08/18/2026

Submit your fall events and opportunities! Summer’s not over yet, but fall is just around the corner. Now’s the time to submit your upcoming events to Craft Happenings and share new jobs, open calls, and other opportunities on the Opportunities Board. Get your work in front of thousands of craft appreciators and makers. Link in bio to submit your craft happening.

How do you keep Scandinavian craft traditions alive in America?Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, a traveling...
08/17/2026

How do you keep Scandinavian craft traditions alive in America?

Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, a traveling exhibition now on view at Decorah, Iowa’s Vesterheim National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School (.museum), offers a compelling answer: by innovating within them.

Open until the end of the year, the show brings together more than 50 works by 24 artists working in the Upper Midwest. All of the pieces on display belong to venerable traditions of making in Norway, Sweden, or Finland—and all of them offer fresh and often unexpected twists on those traditions, born of the artist’s imagination, personal life, or historical circumstances. Link in bio to read the full article.

Photo by E.G. Schempf

Just off a busy corner in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon—where commuters hop on and off the light rail and reade...
08/14/2026

Just off a busy corner in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon—where commuters hop on and off the light rail and readers drift in and out of Powell’s City of Books—there’s a small gallery that invites moments of quiet.

At Storied Objects (), shoppers encounter wood-fired ceramics, delicate handmade glassware, paper-thin wooden bowls, and other items carefully chosen by owner Alexandra Hughes.

“The pieces that I carry in the space are all ones that call to me to a certain degree—they’re muted in tone, quiet and unassuming,” says Hughes. The objects are usually utilitarian, too, and Hughes tries to provide enough education on the care of those handcrafted pieces that her customers can incorporate them into daily life. Link in bio to read the full article.

Photos by Alba Betancourt for Storied Objects

“I always had a dream of a gallery in Rapid City,” says mary bordeaux (Sicangu/Oglala Lakota). “Just a small gallery whe...
08/13/2026

“I always had a dream of a gallery in Rapid City,” says mary bordeaux (Sicangu/Oglala Lakota). “Just a small gallery where Native artists, especially Lakota artists, could exhibit contemporary art without the pressures of tourism or the Wild West and the romanticized view of Native people—which I call ‘long hair, feathers, and the sunset.’” With her husband, Peter Strong, bordeaux co-founded her dream gallery, Racing Magpie (), in 2015. The gallery’s current show is The Practice of Listening, Works of Cecil Apple, Sr., an exhibition of sculptural pieces and paintings by the late Oglala Lakota artist, who died in 2023. Link in bio to read the full article.

Photo:
For Those In My Heart by mary v. bordeaux (Sicangu Oglala Lakota), part of an exhibition called Ordinary Presence: The Everyday of Ikčé.
Photo courtesy of Racing Magpie.

The Aldrich Decennial: I Am What is Around Me begins with the idea that we are shaped by our surroundings. The exhibitio...
08/12/2026

The Aldrich Decennial: I Am What is Around Me begins with the idea that we are shaped by our surroundings. The exhibition brings together 40 artists who live and work in Connecticut. It’s an intergenerational mix, including Connecticut natives, transplants from cities such as New York and Chicago, and diasporic artists from around the world. On view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum () in Ridgefield through January 10, the show is the non-collecting institution’s first decennial. Link in bio to read the full article.

Jeff Suina (.art) makes polymetric ceramic sculptures that belong to another world. Built from a network of interlocking...
08/11/2026

Jeff Suina (.art) makes polymetric ceramic sculptures that belong to another world. Built from a network of interlocking planes and geometric shapes, they resemble magnified particles or fragments of a speculative architecture, informed as much by Cochiti Pueblo pottery traditions as by science fiction and quantum theory. “I’m a complete nerd,” Suina says with a laugh.

Like the sci-fi and fantasy stories he loves, New Mexico–based Suina sees his pottery as a form of worldbuilding. Traditional Cochiti surface designs—angular lines, triangles, and bold black strokes—provide a starting point but occasionally evolve into something more personal and unexpected. Link in bio to read the full article.

Photo:
Jeff Suina gathers and processes his own low fire clay, which he fires to a higher temperature to achieve structural stability.

From left to right: Prayer and Cirrus

Prayer
16 x 8 x 8 in

Cirrus
13 x 6 x 6

Courtesy of Jeff Suina

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