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FEBRUARY CRAFT NEWSLETTER

2/4/2021

 
February 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 weekly updated 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 

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 

A New Era Begins, January 23 – February 20
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com 

6th Annual Glass National, online
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org 

Gallery Artists
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com  

Andrew Hladkey, January 20 – March 7
Jackie Milad & Hedieh Ilchi: Make It Visible, November 11 – March 3
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org  

Translations and Transitions, February 14 – November 7
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org 

We Are Clay, ongoing
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, 
Stripes and Stars: Reclaimed Lakota Independence, thru March 28
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org

CONFERENCE & OTHER EVENTS

Mardi Gras at the Workhouse, February 1-12
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org 

Baltimore Craft Week, online April 12-18
Sponsored by American Craft Council, www.craftcouncil.org  ​

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 

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
Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, November 1 – February 28
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org 

Inside the World of Public Art, January 24 – March 7
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org 

Super Bowls, opens January 9
Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL, www.moreanartscenter.org 

Place, May 1 – August 1
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu 

Andrea Dezsö: From the Murky Banks of the Chattahoochee, thru March 29
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, www.columbusmuseum.com 

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
Entwined: Ritual Wrapping & Binding, March 28 – February 28
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org 

Meghan Gates, February 26 – March 27
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 

Julio Gonzales, ongoing
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 

Meeting the Moon, February 3 – July 26
Fantastical Forms, November 4 – April 5
Contemporary Baskets, ongoing
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org 

The Art of Detailing, thru February 4
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 

 Piece by Piece. Quilts from the Permanent Collection, opening January
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/ 
 
It Takes a Village, September 27 – March 14
Tributaries: Ben Dory | Kissing Numbers, December 12 – March 6
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 

James C. Watkins, Texas Master, and
Anna Mayer: Forms of Inheritance, January 30 – May 8
Weave Houston, January 9 – March 6
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 

Ginny Marsh: Reflections, November 14 – January 31
Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, www.goldmarkculturalcenter.org 

Senior Thesis Exhibition, online
Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, www.swschool.org 

2021 San Angelo Ceramic Invitational, April 23 – June 27
True Texas: Folk & Traditional Arts of the Concho Valley, and
San Angelo University Art Faculty, September 18 – January 31
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 

Regeneration: Glass Studio Assistants, January 12 – April 1
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.org 
MIDWEST
Bisa Butler, Portraits, November 16 – April 19
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu 

4th Midwest Open, January 22 – February 13
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org 

Made at Lillstreet
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com 

Wright before the “Lloyd,” thru February 14
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, www.elmhurstartmuseum.org 

Boyd Smith: The Rudiments of SuPre, December 18 – February 28
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN, www.artlafayette.org 

Art Nouveau: Danish Porcelain, January 19 – May 9
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu 

Karen Linduska, January 22 – March 23
Southern Quilts, December 11 – March 9
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org 

Jordan Nassar, embroidered landscapes, thru April 4
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org 

Contemporary Anishinaabe Artists, thru February 28
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, www.muskegonartmuseum.org 

Glass in the Fourth Dimension, November 21 – March 21
The Art of Jade, August 15 – May 23
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org 

Delicious Dish Distractions, ongoing
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org 

Paula Nadelstern & Karen Selva, Opulent Ornaments: Embellished Textiles and
Matthew Paskiet, Glass Retrospective, and
Mark Kaplan, While We Wait, September 8 – March 5
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/ 

Khatt Islamic: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa, October 31 – August 1, 2021
Nicole Kavekost: Chthonic, November 21- February 28
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org 

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 

Eun-Kyung Suh and Liz Miller: 2020 McKnight Fiber Artists, and
Sylvia Hernández: Sacred Innovations, January 12 – March 13
L’Merchie Frazier: Freedom Rising, January 2 – September 19
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org 

The Persistence of Mingei, March 23 – March 21, 2021
We Are the Story, October 15 – March 14 
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, www.wam.org 

Step up to the Plate, September 6 – December 27
Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN, 651-292-3225, www.galleryofwoodart.org  

Pattie Chalmers: Everything and More, January 29 – May 20
Artists as Educators, August 11 – February 15, 2021
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 

Adrienne Eliades: Digital Debut, January 8 – February 28
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 

American Quilts & Social Change, November 212 – February 14
The Bauhaus Experiment, thru February 7
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, www.toledomuseum.org 

Mola Textiles of Panamá, November 22 – October 3, 2021
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org 

Best of 2020, online
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org 

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 

Women of Appalachia, January 10 – March 15
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/      

Dennis Meiners Ceramics, November 27 – March 7
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org 

Anila Quayyam Agha: All the Flower are for Me, thru May 30
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org 

Denise Roberts: Art Quilts, January 16 – April 11
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org 

Supernova: Charlotte & Gene’s Radical Imagination Station, October 13 – March 1
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu 

Heart Listening: Many Voices, One Planet, thru February 21
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org 

The Shallow Act of Seeing, December 13 – May 16
Hmong Textiles, November 15 – February 21
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 

Temporarily closed
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org 

Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter, online thru March 28
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 

Al Farrow: The White House, July 26 – February 28
Akinsabya Kambon: American Expressions/African Roots, thru February 2
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
Ryan Carrington: Contradictions, January 17 – April 3
Jen Graham: My Presidents, ongoing
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org  

Beth Tate “Unearthed,” January 15 – February 15
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com 

AMOCA Collects! Figure & Form, August 8 – March 21
New Acquisitions, online
Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, March 14 – February 21 and online
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org 

Cathy Cooper: Dramatis Personae, and
Kazuki Takizawa: tomoshibi, and
Making Time, January 31 – September 12
The Body, the Object, the Other, January 25 – January 10, 2021 
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 

California Fibers, 50th Anniversary, February 20 – March 27
Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA, www.californiafibers.com 

Pamela Earnshaw Kelly: Witness, June 13 – January 31
Southern California Contemporary Quilts, August 1 – February 21
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org 

Then and Now, January 10 – February 27
Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, www.frontporchgallery.org 

Kathy Suprenant, October 19 – January 17
Museum’s 30th Anniversary Show, July 20 – January 17
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org 

Wever & Steve Keohane, January
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 – February 14
Collector’s Choice, thru February 7
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 

Kathleen Wall, Living Treasure for 2020, April 4 – March 13, 2022
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org 

Tamara Ann Burgh + Luanne Redeye: Framed, thru January 24
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, www.iaia.edu 

Recent Acquisitions, October 15 – March 2021
Archie Bray, Helena. MT. www.archiebray.org 

David Hilter, and
Long Term Residents, February 5-27
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com 

We Belong Here, thru February 7
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 

Sheltered, January 14 – March 20
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org 

Comfort in the Familiar, November 4 – January 31
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org 
EAST
Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous American Art
Thru February 28, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT, www.artgallery.yale.edu 

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 

Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Design, thru March 28, 2021
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 

Edges, January 7 – March 27
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org 

Michael C. McMillen, Pequod II, October 10 – March 28
Anila Quayyum: All Flowers Are for Me, July 16 – February 22
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 

Particle & Wave: Paper Clay Illuminated, December 19 – May 30
Makers & Mentors: The Art of Snow Farm, November 28 – July 4
Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay, thru March 14, 2021
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org 

Bruce Dehnert: Architectonic, and
Laura Moriarty: Resurfacing, 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 

From the Ground Up, October 4 – January 10
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersvalley.org 

Annual Members’ Exhibition, February 6 – March 6
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org 

Postmodern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – May 9
Andean Ceramics, September 5 – February 7
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 

Reopening, February 18
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu 

Concepts in Clay: Artists of Color, October 26 – February 24
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 

Stirring Glows, January 20 – March 5
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org 

Climate in Crisis: Indigenous America, February 14 – June 20, 2021
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org 

Taili Wu: Where is the Bike Shop? February 19 – March 19
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org 

Out of Sight, Beyond Touch, and
2019 Artists-in-Residence, January 15 – March 28
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 

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, thru February 
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, www.whitney.org 

Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, October 24 – August 15
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, September 9 – February 21
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/ 

Shapes from out of Nowhere, ceramics of Robert A. Ellison jr., Feb. 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 – March 28
Making Strange, February 12 – May 30
Ani Hoover: Forget-Me-Not, October 9 – May 2
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org 

Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org 

Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, February 7 – October 3
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Clarissa Eck: Moonlit Lives, February 6-28
Future Memories, Resident Artists, January 9 – February 28
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
Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s, September 10 – February 21
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 

2021 Faculty Exhibition, online January 15 – April 2
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org 

Light in Transmission, February 5 – May 9 
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org     

The Heart Lives through the Hands, September 3 – March 20
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 

INTERNATIONAL

Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, ongoing
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com 

Janet Macpherson: Hybrid Land, 
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca 

Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, August 7 – March 1
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, December 7 – June 1, 2021
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca 

Nurielle Stern: Fable, thru March 31
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Boyle, February 4 – May 16
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  

Shared Experiences, January 14 – March 15
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca 

Weaving Cultural Identities, January 16 – March 13, 2021
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca 

Threading Black, January 23 – March 13
Crafted NWT, February 6 – May 29
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/

Hand to Hand, thru February
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 

World of Puppets, January 23 – April 18
Michelle Greenwood Brown, December 12 – February 5
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 

Michelle Reader & Phila Neal: Second Thoughts, November 28 – March 7
Second Thoughts, recycled sculpture, November 28 – March 7
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk 

No Strings, thru April 1, 2021
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com 

Monochrome, coming soon
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk 

Kathy Williams, woven textiles, November 28 – February 21
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk 

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  
    
Vivienne Westwood, thru January 2021
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  

Syria 2087, thru March 25
Together, thru March 14, 2021
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

Invisible Thread, January 22 – February 27
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, +45 86 34 1799, 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, January 30 – April 11
Fashion Exposed, October 10 – March 7
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 

Travel as a Tool, June 1 – March 7, 2021
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi 

Tommi Toija, and
Lasismi, February 12 – April 18
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi 

Interaction: A Resounding Mind, December 12 – March 4
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 

Fool’s Gold, February 2 – May 16
Veranoa Hetet: Creating Potential, thru February 28
Josephine Cachermaille: This Way That Way, October 3 – February 28
From the Ground Up, thru March 7
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz 

Anita Johnson Larkin: Come to Me without a Word, February 4 – March 20
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com 

Minhwa Today, February 8 – April 1
Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia, www.koreanculture.org.au 

Festival of Lace, January 31 – March 4
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au  

Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder, February 5 – April 25
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au 

Ulrica Trulsson: Collect, February 26 – March 28
Pop Mart, and
In-House, February 26 – April 26
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au

CRAFT GALLERIES

Artist Circle Fine Art, N. Potomac, MD
301-947-7400, www.artcfa.com 

Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Ceramic Group Exhibition, January 30 – March 6
314-361-4100, www.duanereedgallery.com 

Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery Artists
215-247-1603, www.graverslane.com 

Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH
Gallery Artists
614-225-9595, www.hawkgalleries.com 

Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Christina Bothwell: Luminous Dreams in Cataclysmic Times, February 12 – April 3
212-414-4014, www.hellergallery.com 

Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, San Francisco, CA     
Thirty new works
415-519-2857, www.jeffreyspahn.com 

Jewelerswerk, Washington, DC
Gallery Artists
202-337-3319, www.jewelerswerk.com 

Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, NY
Jeff Shapiro, Cascades and Glacial Landscapes, online February 8 – March 6

Lacoste/Keane Gallery, Concord, MA
Paul S. Briggs, February 13 – March 13
978-360-0279, www.lacostekeane.com 
    
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Blue, September 12 – January 1
490-990-7342, www.lisasettegallery.com 

Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 
Asagi Maeda, online
617-876-2109, www.mobilia-gallery.com 

Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Gallery Artists, December
614-221-8580, www.sherriegallerie.com 

Trax Ceramic Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Online only
510-540-8729, www.traxgallery.com

Vetri Glass, Seattle, WA
Gallery artists
206-667-9608, www.vetriglass.com 

Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio K.O.S. January 15 – March 20
215-923-7030, www.wexlergallery.com

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