JANUARY CRAFT NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2021 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS
​COMPILED BY JRA MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON
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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. ​

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** 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

Fabricating Culture, August 19 – January 5
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Ha Ha! Ho Ho! November 24 – January 9
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
6th Annual Glass National, online
Colors of Fall, October 30 – January 11
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
Gallery Artists
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
Amy Boone-McCreesh: Room with a View, October 16 – January 17
Jackie Milad & Hedieh Ilchi: Make It Visible, November 11 – March 3
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
The St. Francis Missal, thru January 31
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org
 
We Are Clay, September 12 – December 24
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org[BE1] 
 
Katharina Grosse: Is It You? Thru January 3,
Stripes and Stars: Reclaimed Lakota Independence, thru March 28
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org

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NATIONAL CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION

SOUTH

Blow Up II, October 31 – January 31
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
 
Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, November 1 – February 17
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org
 
Artists of ArtLofts, January 7-18
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
 
Entwined: Ritual Wrapping & Binding, March 28 – February 2, 2021
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org
 
Clay: A Southern Census, January 18-30
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
 
Craft to Art: Fiber, thru December 27
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
Muddying the Waters, September 9 – February 1
Fantastical Forms, November 4 – April 5
Contemporary Baskets, ongoing
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
The Art of Detailing, thru February 4
Inspiration, thru January 17
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org
 
Joshua Rose: Afterimage Anxiety, July 10 – February 6, 2021
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
 
Rina Banerjee, thru January 10
Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, Feb. 2 – January 10, 2021
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
 
For a Dreamer of Houses, March 15 – January 21, 2021
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
 
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
 
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

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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
 
60K Log Cabin Quilts, November 6 – January 19
Southern Quilts, December 11 – March 9
Inspired by Endangered Species, October 9 – January 12
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Jordan Nassar, embroidered landscapes, thru April 4
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org
 
Russell Prather: Layers & Light, October 8 – January 17
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[BE1] /      
 
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
The Wide Reach of the Bauhaus, October 10 – January 10
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
 
Michael Mahady, December 4 – January 10
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org
 
Dr. Charles Smith: Aurora, thru January 31
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

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west

Mother Thought of Everything, online
Arctic 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
 
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
Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners, November 7 – January 16
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
 
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
 
Ellen Woodbury & Kathryn Vinson: Flora & Fauna, November 14 – January 10
Bonnie Lebesch: Gun Show, October 31 – January 23
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
Anna Mlasowsky: Never Odd or Even, September 11 – January 17
America’s Monsters, Superheroes. And Villains, September 4 – January 17
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

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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
Stephanie Cole: Secular Cathedral, thru January 10
Makers & Mentors: The Art of Snow Farm, November 28 – July 4
James Grashow: The Great Monkey Project, thru January 31
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
Members Highlight, and
From the Ground Up: 50 Years, October 4 – January 10
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
Clayfest, November 21 – January 16
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 – January 24
Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org
 
Stirring Glows, January 20 – March 5
Urban Sparkle, November 13 – January 15
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org
 
Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, thru Jan. 10
Climate in Crisis: Indigenous America, February 14 – June 20, 2021
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org
 
Eliza AU: The Architecture of Solace, January 7 – February 4
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 – April 4
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, September 9 – February 21
45 Stories on Jewelry 1947 to Now, February 13 – January 24, 2021
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org
 
Eileen Gray, online
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/
 
Fashion and Duration, October 29 – February 7
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org
 
Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone, January 21
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, www.thejewishmuseum.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
 
25 Years of the Windgate ITE Residency Program, October 23 – January 23
Women Transform Woodworking, October 4 – January 25
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Dan Nakamura, Energized, January 9-31
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
Upstairs at Steve’s, September 10 – January 31
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
 
CraftForms 2021, December 4 – January 30
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org
 
The United, October 2 – January 24, 2021
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org                           
 
The Heart Lives through the Hands, September 3 – January 20
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Bourke de Vries: War and Pieces, January 21
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

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INTERNATIONAL

Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, ongoing
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com
 
Jim Smith: A Passion for Beauty, November 13 – January 17
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
 
Paula Murray: You Are Me, September 11 – January 3
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  
 
Marissa Alexander: swim with me, and
In Concert, September 26 – January 17
Goyer Bonneau, September 20 – January 10
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/
 
What Colour is Metal? November 12 – January 28
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
 
Marina Banguil, and
In the Spotlight, and
Playful Christmas, and
Playful Christmas Jewellery, November 7 – January 9
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
Jo Fairfax: Play, February 13 – May 16
Theatrical Property, and
Staging Places, September 19 – January 31
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 – January 10
Handcrafted at Christmas, November 12 – January 10
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
 
Un Printemps Incertain, December 16 – March 11
Luxes, October 15 – May 2, 2021
M\M (Paris), October 13 – January 10
Le Dessin sans Resérve, March 26 – January 31
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France,
                                                
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
Carte blanche | Anatomie fragmentée, September 27 – February 1
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
 
As Cast, September 25 – January 17
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net
 
Design from Past & Present, thru May 9, 2021
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl
 
Gijs Bakker: Basics, July 1 – January 10, 2021
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
 
Max Ernst: sammlung würth, June 20 – January 17, 2021
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de
 
Christmas Exhibition, November 27 – January 16
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
 
Carl-Henning Pedersen: Images in Clay, May 26 – December 20
Erick Veistrup Collection: Clay is Life, November 14 – May 24
Graduation 2020, October 23 – January 24
Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk
 
Sound to Wear, September 24 – January 10
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
Inside and Outside, June 13 – December 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
 
Lost Heads & Hobgoblins, September 12 – February 7
Josephine Cachermaille: This Way That Way, October 3 – February 28
Angela Singer: Second Sight, October 10 – January 24
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic, November 26 – January 27
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
New Beginning, November 29 – January 27
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 
 
Sera Waters: Domestic Art, December 11 – January 31
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Kristel Britcher: Coalescent, and
Generate 2020, December 4 – February 7
Salute! December 4 – January 3
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.a