APRIL CRAFT NEWSLETTER

APRIL 2021 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS
COMPILED BY JRA MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON

Learn about craft exhibitions happening around the world through the monthly James Renwick Alliance Newsletter or join our mailing list to get regular updates about upcoming events. ​

*** Due to the shutdowns and various restrictions on gathering, the exhibitions listed below are tentative and may be changed without notice. If planning to visit, please call ahead to verify the events are still open. A small benefit is that many venues have put their shows online and added other objects to their websites which are rarely seen online or in person.

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​GREATER WASHINGTON EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Temporarily closed
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu
 
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend, March 3 – May 31
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, www.nmwa.org
 
Ancient Art, February 10 thru July
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, www.doaks.org
 
Black History is American History, February 1 – April 17
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Herstory, February 27 – April 3
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Unwavering Spirits: Five Korean Immigrant Artists, March 5 – May 2
6th Annual Glass National, online
Art with Heart, March 8 – May 9
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
New Work – Spring 2021
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
MICA Thesis Exhibition, April 2 – May 14
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
Translations and Transitions, February 14 – November 7
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org
 
Emily Lamb, Coalescence, March 9 – May 22
(in) Touch, Connectivity through Clay, April 3 – May 22
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org
 
Gee’s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights, February – August 2021
Katharina Grosse: Is It You? Thru September 21,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org
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​CONFERENCE & OTHER EVENTS

​Expo Chicago Online, April 9-12
www.expochicago.com  
 
Baltimore Craft Week, online April 12-18
Sponsored by American Craft Council, www.craftcouncil.org  
 
Celebration of Spring Pottery Tour, April 16-18
Seagrove Potters, Seagrove, NC, www.discoverseagrove.com
 
Smithsonian Craft Optimism, online April 24 – May 1
www.craftoptimis.si.edu  

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​NATIONAL CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION

SOUTH

Bethany Collins: My destiny is in your hands, February 13 – May 9
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org
 
Crafting America, February 6 – May 31
Companion Pieces, thru May 24
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, www.crystalbridges.org
 
Color and Form: American Depression Glass, ongoing
The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL, www.wolfsonian.org                                                   
 
NEXUS – Leading Miami Collections, ongoing
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, www.lowe.miami.edu
 
Glasstress Boca Raton 2021, January 27 – September 21
Boca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, FL, www.bocamuseum.org
 
Florida Contemporary, thru July 2021
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org
 
Epicurean Delights, March 26 – May 8
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
Fresh Squeezed 5, April 10 – June 24
Morean Center for Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.moreanartscenter.org
 
Place, May 1 – August 1
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu
 
Quilts, Collection of Paul M. Goggans, May 8 – December 5
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, www.columbusmuseum.com
 
Biennial National Cup Show, May 15 – July 31
Three Billion, February 6 – April 24
Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA, www.thehudgens.org
 
Mapó Kinnord: Outside In, Improvisations of Space, March 6 – July 18
Built, February 27 – July 25
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org
 
Sculpture National, April 9 – May 22
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.org
 
Daniel Johnston: A Thousand Throws, thru July 18
Andy Nasisse, October 20 – June 27
Objects of Intention, thru May 21
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC, www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu
 
Raku: Spontaneity in the Flames, January 22 – June 19
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org
 
Foragers, ongoing
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, www.mintmuseum.org
 
100 Miles II, January 26 – April 24
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
FABRICated, March 26 – May 14
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, www.centerforcraft.org
 
Meeting the Moon, February 3 – July 26
Old World/New Soil, May 7 – August 2
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
Resilience, February 6 – April 27
Thermal Belt: Artists of the Foothills, January 23 – May 9
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org
 
Christina Laurel: Refugium, thru June 1
Suzanne Sbarge & Holly Roberts: Fictive Strategies, thru June 6
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu
 
Susie Ganch, Different Land | Different Sea, April 13 – June 20
Candy Shop, March 9 – April 12
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, www.penland.org
 
Piece by Piece. Quilts from the Permanent Collection, opening January
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/
 
Tributaries: Andrew Meers | Amalgamation, April 10 – July 17
Measured Making: the 150 mm Challenge, March 27 – July 3
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
Liliana Porter: Man with Axe & other Stories, February 5 – May 2
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org
 
Artists-in-Residence Showcase, April 22 – June 6
Yarn, Rope, String and
Sophie Glenn: Hot Spots, February 12 – April 19
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/
 
James C. Watkins, Texas Master, and
Anna Mayer: Forms of Inheritance, January 30 – May 8
Weave Houston, January 9 – April 17
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 713-529-4848, www.crafthouston.org 
 
Between Sea and Sky: Blue and White Ceramics, thru May 31
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org
 
Chris Schanck: Curbed Vanity, February 7 – August 29
Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, thru October 24
For a Dreamer of Houses, thru July 4
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org
 
Interactions and Interfaces, February 12 – March 12
Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, www.goldmarkculturalcenter.org
 
2021 San Angelo Ceramic Invitational, April 23 – June 27
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX, www.samfa.org
 
Clear as Crystal: Colorless Glass, December 26 – July 3
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org
 
Annabeth Rosen: Fables, March 22 – April 26, 2021
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, www.vmfa.museum
 
Judith Lieber: Pop-Inspired Handbags, thru April 24
Eric Standley: The Lesson of Atticus, thru December 26
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, www.taubmanmuseum.or

MIDWEST

Bisa Butler, Portraits, November 16 – April 19
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu
 
Made at Lillstreet
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com
 
Art Nouveau: Danish Porcelain, January 19 – May 9
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
Patter Fusion by Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, March 26 – June 1
Modern Quilt Guild, April 9 – July 27
Sew Many Quilts, 30th Anniversary, March 12 – June 8
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Martha Sullivan: Confluence, March 1 – May 1
The Elusive Cow, Bellevue, KY, www.theelusivecow.com
 
Experience & Expression, January 31 – October 3
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, www.dia.org
 
Kelly & Lyke Phelps: Blue Collar, January 24 – July 31
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, www.pewabicpottery.org
 
John Miller: Blue Plate Special, April 10 – September 19
The Art of Jade, August 15 – May 23
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Breakfast. April 10 – August 28
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org
 
Karen Koykka O’Neal: Paperwork, and
Lauren Herzak-Bauman: Stacks, ceramics, and
Backyard Escape: art quilts, March 15 – June 4
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/
 
2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition, April 17 – May 16
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, www.cranbrookartmuseum.org
 
Unexpected Turns: American Basket-Weaving Traditions, March 11 – October 24
Khatt Islamic: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa, October 31 – August 1, 2021
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
Mike Norman: Hidari-uma, March 5 – April 18
April Artists: Heather Nameth Bren, Amanda Dobbratz, Liz Pechacek, Tricia Schmidt, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy, April 6 – May 2
The Secret Life of Objects: March 5 – April 18
Pots from a (Social) Distance, thru April
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                    
Bound/Unbound, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
L’Merchie Frazier: Freedom Rising, January 2 – September 19
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
Elements in Tapestry and Turned Wood, thru June 23
Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN, www.galleryofwoodart.org
 
Pattie Chalmers: Everything and More, January 29 – May 20
Treasure & Tarnish: Heinrich Schliemann & the Age of Heroes, April 2 – May 22
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org
 
Pursuing Exceptional Ceramics, October 23 – October 10, 2021
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org
 
Neil Celani: Digital Debut, March 5 – April 30
After Hours: Belger Arts Employee Exhibition, March 5 – June 5
Brian Czibesz and Shawn Spangler: Object Index, February 5 – April 3
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org
 
Brooks Stevens: Mending Gold, opening soon
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery
 
Mola Textiles of Panamá, November 22 – October 3, 2021
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org
 
Best of Ohio 2020/2021, opens May 10
Functional Ceramics, February 5 – April 17
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org
 
Athena Art Society, April 13 – May 13
Build It: Artists creating Community in Ohio, January 29 – April 15
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/
 
Mark and Kim Moyer Collection, thru June 11
Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH, www.zanesvilleart.org
 
Quilt National ’21, May 29 – September 9
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Fortuna: Designs by Vincent Quevedo, August 20 – March 7
Stitched: Regional Dress across Europe, January 26 – December 19
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum[BE1] /      
 
Dennis Meiners Ceramics, November 27 – March 7
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org
 
Future Retrieval: Close Parallel, February 26 – August 29
Bold Gestures: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, thru January 2, 2022
Anila Quayyam Agha: All the Flower are for Me, thru May 30
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
 
2021 NCECA Annual, March 13 – April 24
Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.westonartgallery.com
 
Interchange, March 17 – April 11
Ombre Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.ombregallery.com
 
Tributaries: Sheryl Zacharia & Marsha Karagheusian, March 6 – May 29
Caza Sike Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.casasikes.com
 
Denise Roberts: Art Quilts, January 16 – April 11
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org
 
Remnants, February 4 – April 25
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com
 
Roberto Torres Mata – Untethered: Our Journey beyond Borders, April 6 – May 14
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu
 
Nicole Havekost, Susan Gangsei, Fawzia Khan, February 26 – April 3
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org
 
John Naisbitt: High Touch, March 21 – March 13, 2022
The Shallow Act of Seeing, December 13 – May 16
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola: Magic City, February 1 – July 11
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org
 
Mary Giles, and
Unusual Materials: Expect the Unexpected, October 21 – July 3
Expect the Unexpected, thru July 3
In Stitches: September 23 – May 8
Contemporary Teapots, August 7 – July 25, 2021
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  

WEST

Mother Thought of Everything, online
Artic Remix, online
Museum, Anchorage, AK, www.anchoragemuseum.org
 
All at Once: Contemporary Navajo Weaving, thru September 26
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight, February 5 – May 31
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, www.heard.org
 
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Passage, May 14 – August 8
Becky McDonah: Preserving Precious Elements, thru April 25
42nd Annual Contemporary Crafts, thru April 18
Angel Cabrales: The Uncolonized, April 9 – August 8
Indigenous Americas, April 23 – August 8
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, www.mesaartscenter.org
 
Art of the African Diaspora, online February 11 – May 16
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org
 
Common Ground: Artists of Northern California, February 27 – March 27
Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, www.sonomacommunitycenter.org
 
Rosie Lee Thompkins: A Retrospective, online thru July 19
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, www.bampfa.org
 
Design by Time, and
Gary Hutton x Tom Bonauro: Encoded Holidays, February 26 – August 15
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org
 
Elsa Rady: The Edge of Elegance, March 21 – November 1
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, www.crockerart.org
 
Bonnie Peterson: Another Glorious Sierra Day, and
Here She Stands: Women Artists, and
A Family Dynamic, extended to June 27, 2021
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, www.fresnoartmuseum.org
 
Deeds not Words: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, online
Kira Dominguez Hultgren: Embroidering Exoticism, ongoin
Jen Graham: My Presidents, ongoing
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles,
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org 
 
Pae White: Noisy Blushes, ongoing
Barring Freedom, thru April 25
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, www.sjmusart.org
 
Homage, March 3 – May 1
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com
 
Asjwini Bhat: Assembling California, thru April 18
Amy Santoferraro: Two on a Lot, Three on the Tree, May 8 – August 22
New Acquisitions, online
Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, Online
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org
 
Cathy Cooper: Dramatis Personae, and
Kazuki Takizawa: tomoshibi, and
Making Time, May 2 – September 12
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.cafam.org
 
L.A. Made, November 18 – October 1, 2021
Making Waves: Ocean Ecology & Craft, January 16 – June 19
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org
 
Kevin Vincent: Material Memory, February 20 – July 4
Twenty Women Artists, March 13 – August 1
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org
 
Tesa Michaels: Avant-Garde, March 7 – April 25
Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, www.frontporchgallery.org
 
15th Quilt Nihon, thru April 17
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org
 
Louise Deroualle & Molly Peacock, Nas Nuvens, April 3 – May 1
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org
 
Beyond the Mirror, January 23 – May 8
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org
 
Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – July 4
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, www.boiseartmuseum.org
 
Sewing Stories of Displacement, February 16 – March 28
From Combat to Carpet: Afghan War Rugs, January 12 – September 21, 2021
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, www.internationalfolkart.org
 
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, May 1 – June 30, 2022
Kathleen Wall, Living Treasure for 2020, May 13 – May 13, 2022
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org
 
Tom Jones: Strong Unrelenting Spirits, thru March 28
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, www.iaia.edu
 
Online Spring Sale, May 1-29
Beyond the Brickyard, February 13 – April 11
Archie Bray, Helena. MT. www.archiebray.org
 
Art Faculty of Montana State University, January 15 – April 18
Quilt National ’19, January 25 – May 2
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, www.holtermuseum.org
 
Christina Ervives, featured artist, and
Fluid Expressions, March 5 – May 1
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
 
Rose B. Simpson: The Four, April 26 – April 2, 2022
Shifting Horizons, March 27 – August 1
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org
 
Temporarily closed
National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, www.nordicmuseum.org
 
Pulped Under Pressure, January 29 – July 4
Julie Green: The Last Supper, thru October 21
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org
 
Counterpart: Glass + Art Elements, opens April 2
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org
 
Art of Recycling, April 1 – June 8
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org
 
Slice Quilts, February 3 – May 5
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org

EAST

Vessel Invitational: Revisioning the Receptacle, and
Round About: Reconsidering the Object in Space, January 16 – May 23
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org
 
Alumni and Fellows, January 22 – April 7
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org
 
Women of Vision, April 17 – January 2, 2022
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, www.farnsworthmuseum.org
 
Untitled 2020, February 12 – May 31
Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History, ongoing
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org
 
Pilgrim/Roy Collection, and
Quilts of Wendy Reed, March 3 – May 22
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
Peter Hutton: At Sea, thru July 6
Yoan Capote: Immanence, September 28 – 1/1/2022
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org
 
Fiber as Sculpture/Subversive Threads, thru May 3
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, www.mfa.org
 
Studs + Drops, March 26 – May 28
Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA, www.societyofcrafts.org
 
Sonya Clark: Heavenly Bound and
Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, April 9 – September 12
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
 
Tamara Kostianovsky: Savage Legacy, March 13 – August 22
Under New Management, April 3 – April 3, 2022
Particle & Wave: Paper Clay Illuminated, December 19 – May 30
Makers & Mentors: The Art of Snow Farm, November 28 – July 4
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org
 
Jackie deRuyter | Kate Nelson: Shape Shifters, April 22 – June 5
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, www.cahoommuseum.org
 
Four Quiltmakers, online
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, www.newarkmuseum.org
 
The Rugs of Ann Clarke, February 20 – June 27
Bruce Dehnert: Architectonic, and
Terri Fraser, and
Glass in the Expanded Field, January 24 – April 18
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org 
 
Four Quiltmakers, Four American Stories, online
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, www.newarkmuseumart.org
 
Making Matters, May 28 – August 27
Meet the Artists, February 27 – April 3
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersvalley.org
 
Playing with Fire: Altered Atmosphere, March 13 – April 24
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org
 
Postmodern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – May 9
Andean Ceramics, September 5 – May 1
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org
 
Richard Friedberg: Terrible Beauty, February 27 – May 20
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, www.mwpai.org
 
SoLow Cellars: Collection of John & Andrea Gill, February 25 – July 24
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
 
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics & Beyond, thru June 6
Tang Museum, Skidmore, NY, www.tang.skidmore.edu
 
Martha Grover: Balanced Beauty, March 8 – April 12
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, September 9 – April 5
Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org
 
Sound Visions, online February 20 – May 31
Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY, www.lehmangallery.org
 
David King: Reduced to Uncertainty, March 25 – May 7
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org
 
Climate in Crisis: Indigenous America, February 14 – June 20, 2021
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org
 
GHP Artists, April 9-30
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org
 
Veiled Taxonomies, and
Interspecies Futures, April 16 – June 26
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, www.centerforbookarts.org
 
Power Mode: The Force of Fashion, online
Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse, online
FIT Museum, New York, NY, www.fitnyc.edu
 
Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, October 24 – August 15
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, September 9 – April 25
45 Stories on Jewelry 1947 to Now, ongoing
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org
 
Eileen Gray, online
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/
 
Japan: A History of Style, March 8 – April 25, 2022
Fabergé, thru November 30
Art for the Community, Textiles, thru July 27
Shapes from out of Nowhere, ceramics of Robert A. Ellison jr. Collection,
February 22 – August 29
Jewelry for America, ongoing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org
 
Dish It, Corelle at 50, thru April
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org
 
Lisa Karrer: Shelter, December 11 – June 27
Making Strange, February 12 – May 30
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org
 
Japanese Textiles in the West, thru May 23
Sleep Tight: Bed Coverings, May 16 – September 12
Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org
 
Tom Loeser: Please, Please, Please, February 12 – July 24
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Ryan Wilson Kelly: Anxious Assembly, April 3 – May 2
Small Favors, March 5 – April 25
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org
 
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, November 20 – June 6
Fabric As… . thru April 18
Elizabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand, March 5 – August 15
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
 
Strength & Fragility: The Story of the NLM, opened March 26
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.libertymuseum.org
 
Expressions of Radnor 2021, April 3-25
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org
 
Light in Transmission, February 5 – May 9
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org                           
 
Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, April 9 – August 21
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Bourke de Vries: War and Pieces, September 5
Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, www.frickpittsburgh.org
 
Paul Scott: New American Scenery, thru July 11
Beth Katleman: Games of Chance, thru July 4, 2021
Text, Paratext, & Images, September 1 – April 28
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org
 
Creature Comfort: Animals in the House, online
Pattern & Purpose: American Quilts, online
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, www.shelburnemuseum.org

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INTERNATIONAL

Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, ongoing
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com
 
Tina Struthers, March 20 – May 17
Janet Macpherson: Hybrid Land, thru March 13
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca
 
Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, August 7 – March 20
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, December 7 – June 1, 2021
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca
 
Dianne Lee & Robyn LeRoy-Evans: Heavy Shine, May 1 – August 29
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me, March 3 – May 29
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 416-586-8080, www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
 
Temporarily closed
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  
 
Nikola Wojewoda: Garden of the Gods, February 23 – July 15
Morgan Kamocki Allaby: Marooned, and
Nature Inspired, February 23 – May 9
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca
 
Murray Gibson & Donald Stuart: Homage to Women, July 17 – August 18
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca
 
Marginalia, March 20 – May 8
Crafted NWT, February 6 – May 29
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/
 
Alberta Craft Excellence: 40th Anniversary, April 10 – June 19
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca
 
What Colour is Metal? March 12 – June 6
Narrative Tools, thru May 2021
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
Bags: Inside Out, November 21 – September 23
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk
 
The Macclesfield Psalter, December 16 – May 1
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
 
Jess Davies, February 13 – March 28
World of Puppets, January 23 – May 16
Westcountry Potters Association, March 23 – May 9
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk
 
Temporarily closed
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
Jo Fairfax: Play, February 13 – May 16
National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.nccd.org.uk
 
Same Sea, Different Boat, April 17 – June 27
The Curator’s Choice, April 17 – July 11
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
No Strings, thru April 20
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Monochrome, coming soon
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
Stone, May 8 – July 19
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
Archie Brennan: Tapestry Goes Pop, March 26 – June 26
Elaine Wilson: The Art of Being an Apprentice, March 3 – May 3
Pinboard: Postcards from Edinburgh, November 11 – March 16
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com
 
Julies Decubber et Stefania Lucchetta: bijoux, thru May 11
Un Printemps Incertain, December 16 – May 11
Luxes, October 15 – May 2, 2021
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, www.madparis.fr  
                                                
The New Masquerades, online
Musée des Tissus, Lyon, France, www.museedestissus.fr
 
Uwe Wittwer, Aïko Watanabe, Jürg Halter, November 12 – April 4
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – May 9
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Material Matters, June 6 – February 21, 2021
Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, www.textilmuseum.ch
 
Kiki van Eijk: Soon, Imagining, thru August 12, 2021
Common Threads, thru June 13, 2021
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Human After All, October 10 – May 9
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl
 
More Organic, January 20 – May 16
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net
 
Design from Past & Present, thru May 9, 2021
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl
 
Art on Display 1949-1969, thru March 7
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl  
 
From Buteh to Paisley, March 3 – July 28
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.nl
 
Peter Gustaf Dorén: Hamburg c. 1900, February 5 – May 30
Syria 2087, thru April 25
The Language of Fashion, thru October 31, 2022
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, www.mkg-hamburg.de
 
Murano, November 7 – August 15, 2021
Advertising: Seduction in Sheet Metal, November 26 – May 9
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, Germany, www.grassimuseum.de
 
Fe. Steel Prize 2020, November 5 – July 18
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de
 
Ulrike Kleine-Benhke und Silke Trekel: Vomo Material zur Form, Mar. 5 – April 17
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany,
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de
 
Philip Baldwin: Walking in the Void, June 12 – April 11, 2021
Steffen Dam: Journey to M31, installation
Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark, www.glasmuseet.dk
 
#claydiesselfies, January 30 – June 13
Erick Veistrup Collection: Clay is Life, November 14 – May 24
Hans-Henrik Dyhr’s Collection, February 5 – June 13
Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk
 
We Knit for Peace, February 14 – May 16
Fashion Exposed, October 10 – May 2
Textil Museet, Borås, Sweden, www.textilmuseet.se
 
Hans Frode: Gas in Glass, ongoing
Long Live Kosta, 275 Years, ongoing
Swedish Glass Museum, Småland, Sweden, www.kulturparkensmaland.se
 
Ittala, March 26 – September 19
Gunnel Nyman, open archives, January 29 – May 30
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi
 
Tommi Toija, and
Lasismi, February 12 – April 18
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi
 
Sadhiko Takahashi: Playtime, March 6 – June 22
Interaction: A Resounding Mind, December 12 – March 14
Czech Glass Legends, December 19 – June 13
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp
 
Meiji Ceramics, March 20 – June 6
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp
 
Jane Dodd, Wild Domain, February 20 – June 27
Fool’s Gold, February 2 – May 16
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Julie Monro-Allison | HDR Season One, March 26 – April 8
Angela Valamanesh: About being there, February 10 – March 12
School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra, Australia, www.soad.sass.anu.edu.au
 
Signatures: The Mark as an Embodiment of Identity and Intent, March 25 – May 15
Eloise Rapp: Gingham All You’ve Got, March 25 – May 13
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
Minhwa Today, February 8 – April 1
Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia, www.koreanculture.org.au
 
[Not a] Basket Case, March 6 – April 1
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au 
 
Ceramica Maxima, May 1 – July 11
Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder, February 5 – April 25
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Tom Moore, glass, March 20 – May 30
Pop Mart, and
In-House, February 26 – April 26
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au