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MARCH CRAFT NEWS

4/13/2023

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MARCH 2023 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS 
COMPILED BY JRACRAFT MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON
​Learn about craft exhibitions and events by receiving the James Renwick Alliance eNewsletter or by visiting our Community Craft Calendar. ​

CONFERENCES & OTHER EVENTS

Expo Chicago, April 13-17
Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, www.expochicago.com
 
2023 Smithsonian Craft Show, May 4-7
Honorees: Chunghi Choo, Mary Lee Hu, Amber Cowan
Sponsored by Smithsonian Women’s Committee
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, www.smithsoniancraftshow.org
 
JRACraft 2023 Spring Craft Weekend, May 5-7
Honorees: Roberto Lugo, Kristina Madsen, Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Wm. Gudenrath and Amy Schwartz
Sponsored by the James Renwick Alliance
Washington, DC, www.jra.org
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GREATER WASHINGTON, DC AREA CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Sharing Honors and Burdens, Renwick Invitational 2023, May 26 – March 31, 2024
Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, www.americanart.si.edu
 
Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light? February 4 – July 1
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu
 
Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, thru December 31
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, www.nga.gov
 
Earth Day, April 17 – July 29
Black Like Me, thru April 15
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Good Medicine, February 25 – May 8
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, www.joanhisaokagallery.org
 
Sookkyoung Park: Blooming, April 8-30
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, https://athillyer.org
 
Determined Women: collectors, artists & designers at Hillwood, Feb. 18 – June 18 Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC, www.hillwoodmuseum.org
 
Madayin: Bark Painting from Yirrkala, February 4 – May 14
Curated by Rebecca Cross, American University Museum, Washington, DC, www.american.edu/cas/museum/
 
Joan Dreyer: Score, January 14 – April 30
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
Jewel Tones, March 14 – April 16
Layers, April 18 – May 21
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org
 
Birds of Spring, April 6 – May 3
Enamelists Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org
 
Flor-abundance, April 24 – May 28
A Cheery Charry Jubilee, March 27 – April 23
Scope Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org
 
Maggie Gourlay: Wallpapers for a Warming World, April 8 – May 28
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD, Art Centers | MNCPPC, MD
 
2023 Annual Members’ Exhibition, March 31 – April 23
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD, www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
 
Freedom, February 6 – April 23
Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD, Art Centers | MNCPPC, MD
 
June Linowitz: June Get Emotional, March 25 – May 5
Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD, https://www.portico3807.com
 
Tom Doyle: Navigations, April 1-30
Abbey Alpern: Out of the Box, April 1-29
Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD, www.glenechopark.org
 
Alice Kresse: Genealogy, April 2-29
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
34th Biennial Creative Crafts Council Exhibit, May 9 – July 30
Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville, MD
 
Centering, contemporary ceramics, March 31 – May 21
Heatworks 3.0, February 15 – April 23
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
Community through Fire, April 8 – May 27
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org[BE1] 
 
Michelle Erickson: Recasting Colonialism, and
The Matter of Bark Cloth, May 7 – October 1
Arctic Artistry, July 17 – May 14
 
 
Katja Toporski: Meet Me, February 17 – March 31
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimorejewelrycenter.org

OTHER EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGIONS 

south
Ginny Ruffner, March 17 – June 11                                                                                    
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org
 
Roberto Lugo: Street Shrines, November 28 – May 28
The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL, www.thewolf.fiu.edu
 
75 for 75: Diamond Anniversary, opened February 2
Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, FL, www.lightnermuseum.org
 
New Expressions in Japanese Paper, November 11 – April 2
Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL, www.morikamimuseum.org
 
Florida Contemporary, October 14 – July 16
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org
 
Members’ Show, March 17 – April 29
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
When Print Meets Paper, January 17 – April 21
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu
 
Envisioning the South, January 19 – August 19
Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA, www.hilliardmuseum.org
 
Clay” A Southern Census, May 4 – June 9
Eri Sugimoto: Form, Pattern, Texture, March 10 – April 14
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.org
 
Knowing Who We Are, January 28 – July 23
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org
 
Ring Redux, May 5 – February 4, 2024
 
Katherine Choy, Radical Potter, thru April 16
Monochromes, Japanese ceramics, thru June 4
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, www.noma.org
 
Flower Power II, February 18 – June 24
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org
 
Into the Wood: Ed, Philip, & Matt Moulthrop, May 15 – August 26
Green Energy Park, April 22 – July 15
Emergence, January 21 – May 5
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
Something earned, something left behind, and
Neo Mineralia, and
Crafting Denim, February 17 – October 21
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, www.centerforcraft.org
 
Pulp Potential, March 8 – July 24
Too Much is Just Right, February 2 – May 29
Gifts of Fleur S. Bresler, September 19 – April 24
Luzene Hill: Revelate, January 24 – June 26
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
Follow the Thread, thru May 3
Attributes, February 18 – May 22
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org
 
Witness | holding time, March 28 – June 4
Color, April 18 – May 20
Penland School of Art, Penland, NC, www.penland.org
 
Signe Stuart: Flux, January 20 – June 3
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu
 
Reverent Ornament: Art from the Islamic World, February 12 – May 14
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, www.columbiamuseum.org
 
Art & Techniques of Bill Helwig, February 19 – May 21
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
Artists-in-Residence, March 27 – May 9
Jason Stein, glass, February 10 – April 17
Madeline Rile Smith, glass, February 18 – April 17
Susan Bryant, January 6 – March 22
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/
 
Matt Manalo: Philippine-Made, February 11 – May 13
TG: Transitions in Kiln Glass, February 18 – May 13                                                      
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, www.crafthouston.org ,
 
Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, January 13 – May 13
Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, www.moody.rice.edu
 
Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia, Nov. 5 – April 16
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org
 
Paulette Martsolf & Jo Westfall, thru May 2023
Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX, www.dentonarts.org
 
Bamana Mud Cloth, thru August 6
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org
 
Creative Splendor, Japanese bamboo baskets, thru January 2, 2024
The Ceramics of Tonalá, Mexico, thru March 19, 2023
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, NM, www.samuseum.org
 
Margaret Smithers-Crump: Kinship, April 1 – June 18
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, www.amset.org
 
Anna Chupa, April 12 – July 8
Quilts Gone Wild, May 2 – August 26
For Cradle and Crib, April 11 – July 18
Star Struck: January 10 – April 29
Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA, www.vaquiltmuseum.org
 
Fibers of Nature, February 11 – April 1
Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA, www.floydartcenter.org
 
Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body, February 24 – August 29
Preston Singletary: Raven & the Box of Daylight, March 3 – July 2
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org
 
Annual Residents Exhibition, March 10 – April 23
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA, www.visarts.org
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midwest
Kingfisher Headdresses from China, thru May 21, 2023
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu
 
24th International Open, March 18 – April 23
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org
 
Environments, opened March 30
Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL, www.fineline.org
 
Joyce C. Scott: Messages, January 17 – April 30
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
Soyoung Jung: Inward and Outward Bound, January 20 – May 21
Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA, www.iowaquiltmuseum.org
 
Dolls: Playing with Identity, August 18 – June 18, 2023
Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, IA, www.vesterheim.org
 
Handstitched: The cartography of quilts, February 17 – May 16
Hansen Museum, Logan, KS, www.hansenmuseum.org
 
Dynamics of Flow, March 15 – August 18
The Carnegie, Covington, KY, www.thecarnegie.com
 
Torched Glass Pipes, April 20 – October 1
Art of Refreshment, February 25 – August 27
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Clay as Soft Power, thru May 7
Dopamine Dressing, thru August
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, https://umma.umich.edu  
 
Entomophagous Dining (eating insects), April 8 – August 26
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org
 
Michigan Silversmiths Guild, March 13 – June 2
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/
 
YehRim Lee; Dopamine Dressing, December 3 – June 4
Shigaraki Ware: Clay as Soft Power, December 12 – May 7
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, www.umma.umich.edu
 
In the Making: Modern & Contemporary Fiber Art, October 29 – July 16
Nightlife: Nocturnal World in African Art, thru September 10
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
Doug Casebeer, Brian Geier, Jeff Oestreich, Will Swanson, April 4-30
Carrier | Community, and
Breach: Logbook 23 | Carrier, March 4 – April 23
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                    
Paper is People, April 14 – August 2
Sage Dawson, thru April 16
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
Fluidity: Identity in Swedish Glass, February 1 – May 28
American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN, www.asimn.org
 
Mining Mending: Rethink, Reuse, Revive, April 25 – July 15
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
Form | Content, February 26 – May 19
Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN, www.galleryofwoodart.org
 
Travis Lawrence & Elizabeth Madden: Myths & Allegories, March 31 – May 27
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org
 
Traditions of Japanese Art, August 6 – October 8, 2023
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org
 
Terry Winters, opens March 3
Sharif Bey, February 3 – May 6
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org
 
Future Tense 2023, February 23 – April 23
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery
 
Modern Japan, October 14 – June 18
Ancient Andean Textiles, thru December 3
Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession, April 1 – January 28, 2024
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org
 
Best of 2023, May 7 – July 8
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org
 
Interwoven: The Many Voices of Fiber, April 29 – July 7
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/
 
Quilt National 2023, May 26 – September 17
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Global Wedding Traditions, September 16 – August 27, 2023
Songs of Memory, musical instruments and textiles, October 28 – July 23, 2023
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum/
 
Ohio Figurative Ceramics, January 24 – June 10
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, www.miamioh.edu
 
Roberto Lugo: Hi-def Archives, March 17 – September 24
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, January 14 – January 31, 2024
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org 
 
I Contain Multiples: 2023 NCECA Annual, March 14 – May 7
Western Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.westernartgallery.com
 
Terence Hammonds: Universal Magnetic, and
Ceramics in the Collection, February 8 – June 4
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, www.taftmuseum.org
 
Even More Exuberant Ornament, March 14 – April 15
Century Design Workshop, Cincinnati, OH, www.centurydesignworkshop.com
 
Zeitgeist, February 24 – April 14
Artworks V2 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.artworksincincinnati.org
 
Ceramics in the Garden, January 23 – June 18
Krohn Conservancy, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnati-OH.gov
 
Emergence, March 13 – August 31
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanic Garden, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnati.org
 
This is not a coup, January 14 – March 25
The Welcome Project, Cincinnati, OH, www.wavepoolgallery.org
 
Marine Life in Glass, December 23 – June 16
Antique French Paperweights, January 6 – July 23
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI, www.bmmglass.com
 
Fabulous Fads, February 1 – May 14
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com  
 
Cultural Currency, March 4 – June 4
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, www.lywam.org
 
Andrea Chung, January 28 – October 1
Creative! Growth! Thru May 19, 2023
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org
 
Gathering Voices: 20 Years of Collecting, February 8 – July 15
Vignettes, February 1 – August 19
Focus on Glass, thru May 27
Surveying Women in Glass, thru July 23, 2023                                                                 
Women & the WPA, and
Exploring Contemporary Art Jewelry Design, March 1 – September 23
Four Jewelers of Color, March 1 – January 13, 2024
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  
west
Brenda Mallory: The North Star Changes, opens April 23
Substance of Stars, ongoing
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, https://heard.org
 
Making Visible, January 14 – July 23
A Pattern, A Trace, A Portrait, January 14 – June 8
ASU Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ, www.asumuseum.asu.edu 
 
Bobby Zokaites: The Spindle, The Shuttle, & Then Needle, and
Visual Syntax, May 12 – August 6
Colleen Quigley: The Peculiar Seduction of Shattering Light, April 21 – August 6
44th Annual Contemporary Crafts, February 10 – April 23
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ, www.mesaartscenter.com
 
Back to Land Movement, May 25 – October 10
The Curious World of Seaweed, January 28 – April 30
Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, www.gracehudsonmuseum.org
 
Michael Garlington: Totem Dirosa, March 2 – July 30
Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, www.dirosaart.org
 
Anne Hicks Siberell: Concrete Journals, and
Fight & Flight, April 15 – September 10
Bull. Miletic: Proxistant Vision, November 19 – March 19
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org
 
Nampeyo and the Sikyátki Revival, thru September 15, 2024
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, www.famsf.org
 
Queer Threads, May 12 – August 20
Quilt National ’21, thru April 16
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles,
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org 
 
Meditations in Glass, opened on March 2
Philip K. Smith: Light + Change, November 25 – May 7
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA, www.psmuseum.org
 
Ferne Jacobs: A Personal World, May 19 – September 24
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, https://clmoa.org
 
Igal & Diane Silber Collection, April 1 – September 17
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org
 
Alicia Piller: Within, and
Strings of Desire, January 29- May 7
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftcontemporary.org
 
Highlights of the Permanent Collection, March 18 – May 27
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org
 
The Five Directions: Lacquer in East Asia, December 11 – April 16
Conversing in Clay, August 7 – May 21
Light, Space, Surface, April 2 – October 1
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, www.lacma.org
 
Joan Takayama-Ogawa: Ceramic Beacon, January 28 – September 10
Beliz Iristay: Tracing Acculturations, thru April 30
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, https://riversideartmuseum.org
 
Connective Threads, January 28 – April 15
Palos Verde Art Center, Rancho Palos Verde, CA, www.pvartcenter.org
 
Jeanie Kashima: Topaz Collages, and
Ree Nancarrow: Consequences, and
Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck, thru May 27
Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, www.visionsartmuseum.org
 
25 Million Stitches, March 25 – October 15
A World of Beads, November 19 – August 27
Pinatas, October 28 – April 30
Common Level Installation, thru August 20, 2023
Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA, www.mingei.org
 
Amy Pabst, and
Log Cabin Quilts, April 24 – July 15
Art Quilters with Altitude | Elevated Threads, and
Recent Acquisitions, January 16 – April 16
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org
 
Pairings, April 24 – June 2
Perspectives, March 13 – April 14
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org
 
Rebecca Louise Law: Awakening, September 17 – September 10, 2023
Moemoeā, November 3 – July 27, 2023
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, www.honolulumuseum.org
 
Anima: Doorways of Perception, April 11 – June 10
Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, HI, www.mauiarts.org
 
Jacob Hashimoto: The Fractured Giant, January 21 – January 21, 2024
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, www.boiseartmuseum.org
 
Across the Divide 2023, Aprpi 14 – July 29
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, www.holtermuseum.org
 
Nicole Aquillano, and
Life’s Rich Textures, March 10 – April 29
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
 
Adaline Kent: Click of Authenticity, January 28 – September 10
Rachel Hayes, Someday When We Are Dreaming, May 23 – May 23, 2023
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org
 
Here, Now, and Always, Thru July 2024
Painted Reflection: Isometric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery, thru May 29
Virgil Ortiz: ReVOlution, thru April 1, 2023
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.indianartsandculture.org
 
California Stars, February 11 – January 14, 2024
Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM, www.wheelwright.org
 
The Nature of Glass, February 25 – December 31
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, www.nmartmuseum.org
 
Architecture for the Birds, March 23 – May 5
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, www.plainsart.org
 
Weaving Data, January 24 – April 29
Joseph Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland, OR, www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/
 
Plateau Pictorial Beadwork, February 12 – May 14
Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence, February 3 – April 30
Dancing with Life: Mexican Masks, September 3 – April 16
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA, www.northwestmuseum.org
 
Ikat, A World of Compelling Cloth, March 9 – May 29
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, www.seattleartmuseum.org
 
Preston Wadley: Abstract Truth, February 25 – October 8
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org
 
She Bends, redefining neon legacy, February 11 – October 15
Maestro Alfredo Barbini: Nature, Myth, and Magic, thru April 9
Out of the Vault: Soundtracks, June 18 – June 18
Illuminate, opens April 29
Boundless Curiosity: A Journey of Robert Minkoff, April 2 – fall 2023
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org
 
The Current: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud, April 15 – October 15
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, www.tacomaartmuseum.org
 
Italo Scanga: Permanent Immigrant, and
Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School, February 18 – May 14
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, www.monamuseum.org
 
A Precarious Edge, March 23 – June 3
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org
 
Salley Maver: Bedtime Stitches, February 1 – April 30
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org
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east
In Their Elelment(s): Women Artists Across Media, April 30 – July 15
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, www.fairfield.edu/museum/
 
Art & Science in Europe, 1500-1800, February 17 – June 25
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale, February 17 – July 23
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, www.artmuseum.yale.edu
 
Eva LeWitt, thru November 11
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, www.nbmaa.org
 
Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations, March 23 – June 4
Matt Paweski: Matrix 191, February 3 – May 7
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, www.thewadsworth.org
 
Hangama Amiri: A Homage to Home, February 5 – June 11
Kathleen Ryan: Head and Heart, thru May 14
The Aldrich, Ridgefield, CT, www.thealdrich.org
 
Frederico Uribe: Plastic Reef, January 13 – May 28
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org
 
Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts, Oct. 22 – Feb. 19
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, www.delart.org
 
Turning It All Around, January 20 – April 19
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org
 
Kathy Beauregard | Dream, April 1 – May 30
Center for Maine Craft, West Gardiner, ME, www.mainecrafts.org
 
Tinker Department, April 7-30
Maine Craft Portland, Portland, ME, www.mainecrafts.org
 
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, thru April 23
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org
 
Quilts in Canada, January 17 – May 16
Southern Quilts, January 17 – April 15
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
Konstantin Dimopoulos: The Blue Trees, April 20 – June 1, 2023
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org
 
Shawn Panepinto: Old Dog. New Tricks. March 9 – April 28
Gallery 224, Allston, MA, Gallery 224 | Office for the Arts at Harvard
 
Taylor Davis Selects, January 31 – January 7, 2024
ICA Boston, Boston, MA, www.icaboston.org
 
Stitching Stories: Textiles in Conversation, September 23 – September 4, 2023
Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA, www.lexingtonhistory.org
 
Creative Alloys: Boston Metal Scene, January 28 – June 4
Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted, thru May 14
Food Justice, November 12 – April 24
Riotous Threads from Gateway Arts, December 17 – June 25
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org
 
Yarn/Rope/String: Fiber Art Now, December 8 – June 26
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, www.newbedfordart.org
 
Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America, March 15 – April 16
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, www.cahoonmuseum.org
 
Paper Town, February 4 – June 4
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, www.fitchburgartmuseum.org
 
New/Now, January 28 – July 30
D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, www.springfieldmuseums.org
 
Pigment of Imagination, April 15 – August 5
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
 
Gee’s Bend Quilts, thru April 2023
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, www.currier.org
 
Liz Mitchell, March 11 – April 30
Cristina de Gennero: Sage Drawings, January 22 – April 26
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org 
 
2023 International Juried Exhibition, January 20 – April 1
Center of Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, www.ccabedminster.org
 
Architectonic: Wesley Brown & Bryan Hopkins, March 25 – April 29
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org
 
Hoop Dreams: Basketball & Contemporary Art, February 4 – May 21
Neil Tetkowski: Common Ground, November 12 – April 9
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org
 
Homespun, February 4 – April 16
Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, www.newpaltz.edu/museum/
 
Miniature Worlds, March 12 – June 25
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, www.katonahmuseum.org
 
Through the Eye of the Needle, thru April 22
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, www.hudsonvalleymoca.org
 
Good Vibrations, April 28 – June 3
Homecoming: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, and
Homage to Henry Okamoto, March 3 – April 10
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
Abigail Deville, October 12 – April 9
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org
 
Mollie McKnley: Accumulated Ether, March 29 – May 19
Transparency & Opacity, April 12 – June 16
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org
 
Duke Riley: Death to the Living, Long Live Trash, thru April 23
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org
 
Maura Wright: Midwest Sweat, May 12 – June 23
GHP Artists, March 17 – April 21
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org
 
Geste Press, and
Iván Martínez, April 14 – June 24
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo: Rituals Here, January 13 – June 24
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, www.centerforbookarts.org
 
Designing Women, November 30 – May 14
FIT Museum, New York, NY, www.fitnyc.edu
 
Funk You Too! and
Generation Paper, March 18 – August 27
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org
 
Weaving Worlds of the Southwest, February 17 – July 19
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/
 
Water Memories, thru April 4, 2023
Jegi: Ritual Korean Objects, thru October 15, 2023
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org
 
Hector Guimard, November 17 – May 26
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, www.cooperhewitt.org
 
Guillermo Del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, December 11 – April 15
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, www.moma.org
 
Blown Away Season 2, thru September 5
Fire and Vine, thru September 5
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org
 
William Underhill: Casting a Legacy, opened April 21
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
 
Made in NY 2023, March 25 – May 28
Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, www.schweinfurthartcenter.org
 
The Language within Us, April 14 – July 30
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org
 
Fashion AS Experiment: the “60s, May 6 – September 24
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org
 
The Mashrabiya Project, March 3 – July 23
Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Small Favors, and
Pride Pots, and
Gone & For Ever, April 29 – July 3
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org
 
Museum As…, May 5 – September 5
Henry Taylor: Nothing Change, Nothing Strange, March 2 – July 23
Rose B. Simpson, October 7 – May 7
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
 
Art & Design of Drift, thru April 23
Ghosts and Fragments, thru summer 2023
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, www.philamuseum.org
 
Regional Juried Spring Open, March 27 – April 29
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneart.org
 
Undefined, February 3 – July 20
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org                           
 
Brian Fleetwood, March 31 – June 24
Self, April 14 – August 19
C3: Cloth, Culture, Community, December 16 – April 16
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Social Fabric and Contemporary Issues, December 3 – June 11
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, www.newportartmuseum.org
 
Helina Metafaria, July 2 – June 25, 2023
Trading Earth, April 9 – January 28, 2024
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org
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international

Op Art Textil, December 17 – March 12
Reverse, December 3 – March 26
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.museotextildeoaxaca.org
 
The Embodied Press, March 16 – March 7
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca
 
Padina Bondar: Refuse, April 19 – June 1
Común Unidad, March 4 – May 21
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca
 
Mel Wright, March 22 – April 23
Garniture Remix, thru April 30
Sheridan Graduate Show, April 6-23
Karine Giboulo: Housewarming, October 20 – May 7, 2023
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 416-586-8080,  www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
 
Caroline Monnet: Holding Up the Sky, January 13 – April 23
The Weight of Clay, March 14 – May 28
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  
 
Ariel Hill: Lunar Reflections, and
The Decorated Surface, January 28 – May 21
Essence, January 16 – May 14
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca
 
Woven Woods: A Journey through the Forest Floor, and
Greta Grip & Lee Jones, Knit Markers, April 29 – July 22
Weaving Cultural Identities, February 18 – April 15
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca
 
Lael Chmelyk: Haptic Rituals, May 6 – June 26
Ornament & Crime, April 8 – July 22
Converse Subversions, March 11 – April 29
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/
 
Albirda, January 21 – April 28
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca
 
Joanna Rogers: The Chorus, February 23 – April 26
Craft Council BC Gallery, Granville Island, BC, www.craftcouncilbc.ca
 
Land/Marks, February 14 – May 20
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
Maria Bartuszová, thru June 25
Magdalena Abrakanowicz, thru May 21
Tate Modern, London, UK, www.tate.org.uk
 
Africa Fashion, thru April 16
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, thru June 25, 2023
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk
 
Pauline Caulfield Textile Works 1968-2003, and
Andy Warhol: The Textiles, March 31 – September 10
Fashion & Textile Museum, London, UK, www.fashiontextilemuseum.org
 
CAA 75: Ceramics + Jewellery, April 3-22
Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK, www.caagallery.org.uk
 
Faith Shannon: Stone, March 15 – April 15
Crafts Council Gallery, Islington, UK, www.craftscouncil.org.uk
 
Huguenot Silver, thru July 30, 2023
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
 
Imogen Taylor-Noble, April 15 – May 27
Knives into Jewels, April 1 – May 13
Naomi Singer, February 4 – April 18
Amanda Glendenning, March 3 – April 15
Make Southwest Craft, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk
 
Homegrown, April 22 – July 22
Botanical, May 6 – July 15
Feather & Fur, February 4 – April 29
In Celebration of Mugs, January 14 – April 15
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
Paul Stuchbury: Histitchery, April 1 – May 21
Material Evidence, April 1 – July 9
HUB - National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.hub-sleaford.org.uk
 
Rezia Wahid: dancing in the womb, January 10 – May 13
A Private View, curated by Magdalene Odundo, November 8 – August 19, 2023
Craft Study Centre, Farnham, UK, www.csc.uca.ac.uk
 
Neil Wilkin & Rachael Woodman//Harvest: Fruit Gathering, and
Jennie Moncur//Interrupted Views, March 25 – June 18
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
Confluence: ceramics><glass, March 25 – September 10
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Leonardo Drew, March 18 – October 29
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK, www.ysp.org.uk  
 
Marlow Moss: Modern Conversations, thru May 1
Tate St. Ives, St Ives, Cornwall, UK, www.tate.org.uk
 
On Your Table, domestic ceramics, January 14 – April 16
Tim Pugh, March 25 – May 7
Animal Rites, April 22 – July 2
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
Uncommon Beauty, April 1 – May 29
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
In Their Element, January 26 – March 26
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, https://ceramics-aberystwyth.com
 
Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern, March 31 – July 8
Collaborate, Part III, March 4 – June 24
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com
 
Bernat Klein: Design in Colour, November 5 – April 23
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.nms.ac.uk
 
The 1980’s: Fashion, Design, Graphics in France, October 13 – April 16, 2023
LégèretésManifestes. François Azambourg, Designer, March 9 – July 2
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, www.madparis.fr  
 
Margareta Daepp: Simply Radical, April 28 – September 24
Yan Zoritchak: Fenêtres sur L’Univers, March 31 – January 21, 2024
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Alessandra Betrames: GOLD_Room #0, and
100 Shades of White, March 3 – September 10
8th European Quilt Trienniale, October 7 – April 10
Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, www.textilmuseum.ch
 
Masters of the Future, March 21 – May 31
Ancient Abattoirs of Mons, Mons, Belgium, www.becraft.org
 
Royal Embroidery, December 1 – May 29
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Celebrate! October 15 – August 20, 2023
Handle with Care, November 26 – October 20, 2023
Beate Reinheimer & Ulrike Rehm: Schwarm, thru July 31
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl
 
Koos Buster: a smile for everyday, May 12 – September 10
Keramische Signalen, January 20 – May 7
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net
 
Afghan Design, online
From Buteh to Paisley, online
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.nl
 
Made in China! Porcelain, October 2 – August 20, 2023
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, www.mkg-hamburg.de
 
Art Deco Porcelain, February 8 – July 2
Modern Goods, November 5 – October 8, 2023
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, Germany, www.grassimuseum.de
 
All Hands On: Basketry, thru May 26, 2024
Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany, www.smb.museum
 
Uli Aigner: The Porcelain Code, October 6 – May 28
Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany, www.smb.museum
 
Eva & Peter Heroin Passions, and
Ethiopia’s goldsmithing school, Mau 12 – September 10
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de
 
Strolling in textile spheres, March 19 – July 16
Max Berk Textile Museum, Heidelberg, Germany, www.museum-heidelberg.de
 
Flower Power, May 26 – July 8
BKV-Preis 2023, April 26 – May 20
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany,
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de
 
Entangled State: 17th International Triennial of Tapestry, October 8 – April 15
Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland, www.cmwl.pl
 
Evolutions, April 29 – January 7, 2024
In the Making, January 14 – April 16
Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark, www.glasmuseet.dk
 
Keramikkens Sprog, January 21 – August 20
Morten Løbner Espersen, Triumph and Catastrophe, September 4 – May
Naja Utzon Popov: Continuum, November 24 – June 4
Keramik Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk
 
Nordic Fashion Now, May 12 – September 30
Röhrsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden, www.rohsska.se
 
Textile Layers, February 24 – May 14
Body in Design, April 27 – June 11
Tube by Numen for Use, April 1 – August 27
Textil Museet, Borås, Sweden, www.textilmuseet.se
 
The Studio Glass Revolution, ongoing
Hans Frode: Gas in Glass, ongoing
Long Live Kosta, 275 Years, ongoing
Swedish Glass Museum, Småland, Sweden, www.kulturparkensmaland.se
 
Tomi Leppänen: Taukp Pause Pause, March 24 – August 27
Kustaa Skasi: In the Borderlands, May 5 – October 15
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi
 
Nanny Still: Glass, Design, Art, and
Glass – Hand-Formed Matter, February 11 – April 30
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.suomenlasimuseo.fi
 
A Mysterious and Real World, March 4 – June 18
Onomatopoeia in Glass Art, November 19 – June 4
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp
 
Teacup Teacup, March 11 – June 25
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp
 
Unhinged, March 25 – August 13
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Kirsten Haydon: Ice Holds, and
Weaving matter, and
Mutukaku Ngura – Motorcar Country, March 30 – May 24
Object, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalyptus, March 4 – June 25
Works from the Collection, March 25 – September 3
Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, Australia, www.araratgallerytama.com.au
 
Mala-lukmarama (to gather together), February 5 – March 26
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, Australia  www.sturt.nsw.edu.au 
 
TexStyle 2023, March 5 – April 28
Gallery 76, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au 
 
Material Metamorphosis, March 4 – May 8
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Christopher Whyte: Anthropocene – A Toy Story, April 1 – May 8
Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia, www.waggaartgallery.com.au
 
Giles Bettison, March 21 – June 20
New Exuberance, textile design, and
Built Worlds, February 17 – April 16
Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
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