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Coulter Fussell’s puffy, fluorescent wall works—all made from salvaged and donated textiles from friends, neighbors, and...
10/06/2026

Coulter Fussell’s puffy, fluorescent wall works—all made from salvaged and donated textiles from friends, neighbors, and strangers alike—mix aspects and techniques from various textile practices, such as quilting, doll-making, and upholstery.

So far, 2026 has been a game-changing year for the Georgia-born, Mississippi-based artist. She received Creative Capital for Artist’s 2026 State of the Art Prize in January, was named a 2026 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow in August, and opened The Proving Ground, her first museum survey exhibition (with an accompanying catalog), at the Mississippi Museum of Art over the summer. Now on view at The Columbus Museum in Georgia, the show is an artistic homecoming of sorts.

Meet Coulter Fussell → https://craftcouncil.org/articles/this-mississippi-textile-artist-is-having-a-banner-year/

Photo courtesy of the artist

It takes ten people to turn a page of the world’s largest pop-up book. Someone counts to three, and everyone moves at on...
10/05/2026

It takes ten people to turn a page of the world’s largest pop-up book. Someone counts to three, and everyone moves at once. Four people hold long dowels tipped with soft pads: two push the enormous page upward, while the other two wait to catch it on the other side. The other six lift from the edges, then run around to help ease the page down. For a few moments, the ten move in a kind of choreography, their steps echoing through the rotunda of the Richard J. Riordan Central Library in downtown Los Angeles.

Weighing in at 1,800 pounds, Luceros y Penumbras, which loosely translates to “starlight and shadows,” is a behemoth of paper and engineering. “There is no mechanical way to move this,” says Beth Goodnight of Goodnight and Co., the team of set builders who constructed the book. “It takes ten people to turn that page, okay? Not nine. You can’t turn it with nine.”

Flip through the story → https://craftcouncil.org/articles/how-do-you-turn-a-page-in-the-worlds-largest-pop-up-book/

illustrations: Printgonzalez
paper engineering:
construction: Goodnight & Co.

Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library

On the third floor of Charlotte, North Carolina’s The Mint Museum, seafoam green walls and neon yellow pedestals welcome...
10/01/2026

On the third floor of Charlotte, North Carolina’s The Mint Museum, seafoam green walls and neon yellow pedestals welcome visitors into Corey Pemberton’s () lush, patterned world.

Living Well, the new solo exhibition by the Los Angeles–based glass artist and painter, brings together more than 70 colorful, intricately detailed works spanning (and sometimes blending) painting, collage, blown glass, sculptural baskets, fiber arts, quilting, and other mediums to reflect on how domestic spaces—particularly for the Black, q***r, female, and nonbinary people he depicts—have long been sites of resilience and healing.

Read the full story → https://craftcouncil.org/articles/corey-pemberton-is-living-well/

Photo courtesy Crafting the Future and The Mint Museum

For her first museum exhibition, Toledo, Ohio–based glass artist/designer Hannah Bowlus () is betting on the beauty of g...
09/29/2026

For her first museum exhibition, Toledo, Ohio–based glass artist/designer Hannah Bowlus () is betting on the beauty of geometrical limitation.

The work on display in Hannah Bowlus: Origin Point, running until January 3 at The Toledo Museum of Art, is based entirely on the cube, the sphere, or a combination of the two forms. It also illustrates the compatibility of form and function, art and industry: lamps, furniture, installation work, and sculptures share space in the show.

Read the full story → https://craftcouncil.org/articles/beauty-lives-where-the-circle-meets-the-square/

Photo courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art

Finnish artist Marianne Huotari - artist and designer creates a lush dreamlike world through her intricately layered cer...
09/28/2026

Finnish artist Marianne Huotari - artist and designer creates a lush dreamlike world through her intricately layered ceramic wall tapestries and sculptures. She spent a year preparing six new pieces for her first US solo show, Voyage. These works and more are now on view at HB381 (), Scandinavian-focused gallery Hostler Burrows’s Lower Manhattan exhibition space, through October 31.

Huotari often uses a title as a starting point in her process. For this show, the work became about a sense of place, with works titled By the Waterfall, Night in the Arboretum, and Tree of Tales. “It’s about going somewhere, being somewhere,” she says. “That’s the voyage.”

Read the full story → https://craftcouncil.org/articles/a-scandinavian-textile-tradition-refashioned-in-clay/

Photo by Chikako Harada

Presented in partnership with the Center for Craft, this free virtual forum celebrates new and ongoing efforts to preser...
09/24/2026

Presented in partnership with the Center for Craft, this free virtual forum celebrates new and ongoing efforts to preserve and expand access to the recorded history of American craft. Following the American Craft Council’s landmark gift of its nationally significant Library and Archives Collections to the Center for Craft, the conversation will explore the vision for these extraordinary resources as they become part of the new Center for Craft Community Library and Archives. The program will also introduce the Center’s new Program Director, Archives and Special Collections, and highlight other innovative projects advancing craft scholarship, archives, and research.

Join leading voices in the field for a conversation about preserving cultural memory, increasing access to knowledge, and ensuring these invaluable collections continue to inform, inspire, and serve future generations.

Register for FREE → https://craftcouncil.org/events/american-craft-forum-for-the-record-craft-archives-as-creative-infrastructure/

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
6–7 p.m. ET / 5–6 p.m. CT / 4–5 p.m. MT / 3–4 p.m. PT
Virtual: Zoom Webinar

When Susan Gosin co-founded Dieu Donné Papermill () in a Manhattan loft 50 years ago, she believed hand papermaking coul...
09/23/2026

When Susan Gosin co-founded Dieu Donné Papermill () in a Manhattan loft 50 years ago, she believed hand papermaking could become a powerful contemporary art form, moving beyond the confines of paper as a surface for prints and drawings—but only if she could convince artists to try it.

Chuck Close was one eventual convert, working with collaborators at Dieu Donné to create grayscale gridded portraits—including 2001’s Self Portrait / Pulp—by squirting pigmented paper pulp into individual square cells. Link in bio to read the full article.

Photo courtesy of Dieu Donné.
Lynda Benglis, Lunar Hornet, 2023, handmade pigmented abaca paper, embedded aluminum wire, stenciled linen pulp paint, carbon black with acrylic medium, 15 x 12 x 6 in.

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