OCTOBER CRAFT NEWSLETTER

OCTOBER 2020 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. 

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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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International conferences

Craft Week Scotland, November 9 – 15
www.craftscotland.org

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​Greater Washington Exhibitions & Events

Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia, opens October 8
Lloyd Cotsen Collection: Delight in Discovery, February 22 – December 23
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu
 
Bea Szenfeld & Stina Wirsén, thru December 13
House of Sweden, Washington, DC, www.houseofsweden.com 
 
Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion, thru January 6
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, www.doaks.org
 
Natural Beauties, thru December 31
Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC, www.hillwoodmuseum.org
 
Fabricating Culture, August 19 – January 5
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
The Impossible Dream, September 28 – November 21
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Josh DeWeese, February 6 – November 29
Chris Gustin, February 29 – November 29
Reshaping Space, thru November 29
Clay International 2020, thru October 11
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
Kanika Sircar, ceramics, October 4 – November 7
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
Working with the Muse: Studio Art Quilts, online
Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, www.strathmore.org
 
Ada Pinkston, online
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
The St. Francis Missal, online
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org
 
We Are Clay, September 12 – October 31
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org
 
Adorned: African Women and the Art of Identity, May 15 – December 1,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org

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CRAFT GALLERIES

Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Microcosm, September 12 – October 17
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
Joanna Manousis, Focus, September 17 – October 14
Mel Douglas, Defining Spaces, October 1 – November 14
Sidney Cash, Shelter, opens October 10
212-414-4014, www.hellergallery.com
 
Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, San Francisco, CA                                                 
Thirty new works
415-519-2857, www.jeffreyspahn.com
 
Jewelerswerk, Washington, DC
Lydia Martin, October 17 – November 12
202-337-3319, www.jewelerswerk.com
 
Lacoste/Keane Gallery, Concord, MA
Empowering Voices, September 12 – October 10
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,
Temporarily closed
617-876-2109, www.mobilia-gallery.com
 
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Melinda Rosenberg & Barb Vogel, October 3-23
Mark Petrovic & Kari Russell-Pool, October 24 – November 30
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. October 19 – December 22
215-923-7030, www.wexlergallery.co

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​OTHER craft EXHIBITIONS BY REGION

SOUTH
 
Blow Up II, October 31 – January 31
Ubuhle Women: Beadwork, August 8 – October 18
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org
 
Deco: Luxury to Mass Market, ongoing
The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL, www.wolfsonian.org
 
NEXUS – Leading Miami Collections, February 22 – December 6
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, www.lowe.miami.edu
 
Jeff Whyman: Out of Nature, October 7 – January 3
Boca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, FL, www.bocamuseum.org
 
Figuratively Speaking, September 19 – December 12
Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL, www.textiles.fit.edu
 
Holiday Boutique 2020, November 6 – December 31
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
Jennifer Kosharek: Woman’s Work, October 3-29
Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, www.moreanartscenter.org
 
7th National Collegiate Paper Art Triennial, August 27 – December 4
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu
 
Andrea Dezsö: From the Murky Banks of the Chattahoochee, May - December
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
 
All is Possible: Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal, February 21 – December 20
Andy Nasisse, October 20 – June 27
Objects of Intention, thru May 2021
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC, www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu
 
Tea Time with North Carolina Ceramic Guilds, June 26 – December 12
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org
 
Asian Influence on North Carolina Ceramics, ongoing
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, www.mintmuseum.org
 
Narrations/Abstractions/Iterations, and
Three Potters Retrospective, virtual exhibitions
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
Muddying the Waters, September 9 – February 1
A Telling Instinct, thru November 20
50 Years of Western North Carolina Glass, thru November 2
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
Please Serve Yourself, October 9 – November 15
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, www.penland.org
 
Joshua Rose: Afterimage Anxiety, July 10 – February 6, 2021
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu
 
Carolina Knives, August 3 – July 17, 2021
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/
 
Utilitarian Clay, and
Tectonic Plates/UCVIII, and
The Task at Hand, August 29 – November 17
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, www.arrowmont.org
 
It Takes a Village, September 27 – March 14
Wrought Iron, October 4 – December 6
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, Feb. 2 – January 10, 2021
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org
 
Lesley Patterson-Marx, August 17 – October 2
Future Tense, thru October 27
Appalachian Craft Center, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/
 
Breaking Traditions: Contemporary Approaches to Decorative Arts and
Meta-Formation: Contemporary Blacksmithing, August 22 – January 3, 2021
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 713-529-4848, www.crafthouston.org 
 
Hats off: Halston’s Hats, thru January 3
Arts of Islamic Lands, thru December 27
Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, February 14 – November 1
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
 
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 – November 29
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX, www.samfa.org
 
Cut, Fold and Handmade: The Art of Paper, July 25 – November 8
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News VA, www.pfac-va.org
 
Dan Dailey: Character Sketch, February 21 – January 3, 2021
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org
 
Resident Artists, thru November 1
Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA, www.visarts.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 December 27
Alyson Shotz: A Moment in Time, June 28 – December 27
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, www.taubmanmuseum.org
 
 
MIDWEST

Bisa Butler, Portraits, November 16 – April 19
Adornment: Jewelry of the South Asia Nomadic Cultures, thru January 9, 2021
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu
 
What are you voting for? October 9-31
23rd International Open, October 30 – November 21
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org
 
Made at Lillstreet
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com
 
Body Building: The Art of the Human Figure, online
Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, www.indplsartcenter.org
 
Joe Rohrman, It Goes Without Saying, September 19 – November 28
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN, www.artlafayette.org
 
Contemplate Japan, thru December
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
OUR Story: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, June 8 – December 8
Leni Levenson Wiener, Park Bench Stories, September 11 – December 8
MJ Kinman, Bourbon Diamonds, September 18 – November 3
Inspired by Endangered Species, October 9 – January 12
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Where Paradise Lay, April 17 – November 8
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org
 
Out of the Box, August 23 – fall 2020
Jacqui Lubbers: A Legacy of Weaving, and
Even Coverlets Gets the Blue, thru December 2020
Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY, www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/
 
Russell Prather: Layers & Light, October 8 – January 17
Glass from the Permanent Collection, May 14 – November 29
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
Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey, thru October 25
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/
 
Cloth Paper Scissors, Helena Hernmarck Weaves the Everyday, Feb. 15 – Oct. 18
Recent Acquisitions: Fiber Art, December 7 – October 18
Nicole Kavekost,: Chthonic, November 21- February 28
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
Brent Pafford, Matt Repsher, Tricia Schmidt, Kurt Brian Webb, Oct. 13 – Nov. 18
Vote, and
Scale, September 12 – November 3
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                    
Ruthann Godollei, The Wish Machine, September 11 – November 15
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
Quilts by Dorothy Burge, September 29 – December 24
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
The Persistence of Mingei, March 23 – March 21, 2021
Harriet Bart, thru November 29
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  
 
Artists as Educators, August 11 – February 15, 2021
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org
 
Andy Goldsworthy: Walking Wall, thru December 6
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org
 
Erica Iman: Digital Debut, thru October 31
Vibrant: Christina Erives, Lauren Mabry, Shalene Valenzuela, Oct. 2 – December 31
Tea Time, August 7 – November 7
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org
 
Small Expressions, October 5 – December 18
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery
 
Tiffany in Bloom, thru October 4
Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea, March 8 – October 25
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org
 
Functional Ceramics, online
The Best of 2020, online
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org
 
Expanded Dimensions, quilts and surface design, November 5 – January 9
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/
 
Wide Open, October 2 – November 29
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Wearing Justice, thru November 15
Fortuna: Designs by Vincent Quevedo, August 20 – March 7
Culture/Counterculture, 1960s & 1970s Fashion, September 20 – January 3
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum[BE1] /     
 
Works by Stuart Fink, late July – November 15
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, www.springfieldart.net
 
Dennis Meiners Ceramics, November 27 – March 7
Retooled: The Hechinger Collection, August 24 – October 25
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org
 
Tokens of Appreciation, March 8 – November 29
Good Road to Follow, March 1 – January 17, 2021
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org
 
Mary Giles, and
Unusual Materials: Expect the Unexpected, October 21 – January 23
In Stitches: September 23 – February 13
Contemporary Teapots, August 7 – July 25, 2021
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  
 

WEST 

Shelter/Refuge/Landforms, thru November
Museum, Anchorage, AK, www.anchoragemuseum.org
 
Behind the Mask, Indigenous Artists Speak Out, opens October 10
Maria Hupfield, thru November 15
Larger than Memory, thru January 3
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, www.heard.org
 
Over and Under, online
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org
 
Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter, online thru March 28
Rosie Lee Thompkins: A Retrospective, online thru December 30
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, www.bampfa.org
 
MOTO MMXX, May 23 – January 3
Design by Distance, June 2 – December 31
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org
 
Al Farrow: The White House, July 26 – February 28
Cool Clay, July 21 – December 31
Akinsabya Kambon: American Expressions/African Roots, February 2 – September
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, October 16 – December 6
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Thread, Spirit, Resistance, and
Three Ways: Ogunji, May, Diazoni, July 17 – October 9
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles,
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org 
 
Lauren Hanson, thru October 24
Jon Keenan: Ceramic Journeys, and
Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners, November 7 – December 19
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com
 
Nicole Seisler: Hand Pressed Souvenirs, opened August 8
AMOCA Collects! Figure & Form, August 8 – March 21
Joanne Hawakay: A Wing & a Prayer II, January 11 – December 27
Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, March 14 – February 21
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org
 
The Body, the Object, the Other, January 25 – January 10, 2021
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.cafam.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
 
Maneki Neko, Japan’s Beckoning Cats, September 1 – November 29
Around the World with Mingei, September 10 – December 13
Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA, www.mingei.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
 
Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – February 14
Ceramics & Textiles from the Southwest, thru November 29
Margaret Jacobs: Steel Medicine, thru July 26, 2020
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
 
San Ildefonso Pottery, 1600-1930, August 11 – December 31
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org
 
Tamara Ann Burgh + Luanne Redeye: Framed, thru January 24
Indigenous Futurisms, thru January 1
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, www.iaia.edu
 
Recent Acquisitions, October 15 – March 2021
Archie Bray, Helena. MT. www.archiebray.org
 
Kurt Anderson, and
With Quiet Strength, October 3-31
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
 
Andrea Zittel, Wallsprawl, August 13 – December 31
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org
 
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
 
Transparency: An LGBTQ + Glass Art, thru summer 20201
René Lalique, November – March 2021
Richard Marquis: Keepers, September 28 – spring 2021
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org
 
A Tradition of Friendship, Quilts from Japan, thru October 25
Threadcentricity, August 1 – November 1
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org
 
 
EAST
 
Sonya Clark/Matrix 184, extended
Savor: A Revolution in Food Culture, extended
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, www.thewadsworth.org
 
Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous American Art
Thru February 28, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT, www.artgallery.yale.edu
 
Contemporary Designer Bookbindings, thru November 29
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, www.britishart.yale.edu
 
Samara Weaver: Through the Looking Glass, October 2 – November 1
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org
 
Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, September 18 – January 6
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.ort
 
Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Design, thru March 28, 2021
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, www.farnsworthmuseum.org
 
Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History, March 28 – October 25
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org
 
Deeds Not Words, July 7 – October 31
The Quilted Canvas III: Still Here! September 30 – December 31
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
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
 
Stephanie Cole: Secular Cathedral, thru January 1
2020 Biennial Members Exhibition, thru November 8
James Grashow: The Great Monkey Project, thru January 1
Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay, thru March 14, 2021
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org
 
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, March 19 – January 14, 2021
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, www.newarkmuseumart.org
 
Making Matters: Fresh Perspectives, June 8 – October 26
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersalley.org
 
Postmpdern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – May 9
Andean Ceramics, September 5 – February 7
Renegades and Reformers: American Art Pottery, January 25 – October 18
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org
 
Memoryscape, and
Celebrating Suffrage: Women Artists, and
Astonishing Brilliance, 1/3/2021
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, www.mwpai.org
 
Inventory: The Ceramic Art of Nick Lenker, September 24 – November 21
The 1930’s Jazz Age Sculpture of Waylande Gregory, February 13 – November 21
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
 
Connections, thru December 5 online
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
Outer Special, thru January 8
Carly Mandel, September 9 – October 30
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
 
Didem Mart: FUN-damentals, October 9 – November 6
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.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 2021
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, www.whitney.org
 
Open Set, extended online
Grolier Club, New York, NY, www.grolierclub.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/
 
Héctor Zamora: Lattice Detour, thru December 9
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
 
New Glass Now, May 12 – January 5, 2021
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org
 
Ani Hoover: Forget-Me-Not, October 9 – May 2
Roycroft from the Collection, thru December 27
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org
 
Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Japanese Textiles in the West, thru November 22
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org
 
Women Transform Woodworking, October 4 – January 25
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Lisa Naples: Using the Sun to Find North, October 2 – November 15
George Rodriguez: La Flor, El Nicho, y sus Memorias, October 2 – November 1
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org
 
Lorna Simpson: Spilling, Breaking Waves, February 14 – October 11
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.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
Maker & Muse: Women & Early 20th Century Art Jewelry, online
Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, www.frickpittsburgh.org
 
Beth Katleman: Games of Chance, thru August 16
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org
 
Maria Shell: Off the Grid, thru October 17
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, www.shelburnemuseum.org

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International craft exhibitions

​Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, opened March 7
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com
 
National Year of Craft, September 25 – November 8
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, ongoing
RAW, March 5 – October 25
The Gardiner Collects, January 18 – December 31
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 10
Goyer Bonneau, September 20 – January 3
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
 
Making a Career in Craft, September 19 – November 1
Rural Roots, September 19 – October 31
Cloth in Context, November 7 – December 24
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/
 
What Colour is Metal? November 12 – January 28
Connected, July 20 – October 20
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, thru October 31
Bags: Inside Out, November 21 – December 31
Filthy lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room reimagined, thru November 29
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk
 
Shine, September 18 – December 22
Goldsmiths Centre, London, UK, www.goldsmiths-centre.org
 
Design Evolution from the Keatley Trust, thru January 3
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
 
Mike Tingle: The stuff of nonsense, October 10 – January 3
Devon Guild Members, September 9 – November 1
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk
 
Jerwood Makers Open, February 2 – October 4
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, www.manchesterartgallery.org
 
Katrine Barber, July 4 – October 31
Rings, and
Stone Jewellery Show, thru October 31 online
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
Theatrical Property, and
Staging Places, September 19 – January 10
National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.nccd.org.uk
 
Michelle Reader & Phila Neal: Second Thoughts, November 28 – March 7
The Harley Open 2020, August 1 – November 1
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
No Strings, thru April 1, 2021
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Eleri Mills – Egni, a decade of creativity, August – November 2020
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
Handcrafted, September 26 – January 10
Communication Lockdown, September 3 – October 25
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
Mid-Century Design, thru January 9
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com
 
Japanese Contemporary Design, thru October 11
Little Black Dress, thru October 25
The Galloway Hoard, thru October 18
National Museum of Scotland,, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.nms.ac.uk
 
Julia Decubber/Stephania Lucchetta: Connect/Collect. Bijoux Contemporains
Luxes, October 15 – May 2, 2021
Le Dessin sans Resérve, March 26 – January 31
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France,
                                                
Uwe Wittwer, Aïko Watanabe, Jürg Halter, November 12 – April 4
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – May 9
En noir et blanc ou en couleurs, thru November 1
Théières en goguette, thru September 13
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Vision Summer 2021, May 21 – October 18
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
 
Jólan van der Wiel: Design #5, and
Jennifer Lee: Falling Feathers, thru January 3, 2021
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
 
The Art of Waste, June 1 – November 1
Chihuly Grand Stairwell, thru December 31
Design from Past & Present, thru May 9, 2021
Memphis Design, thru December 31
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
Spitzen de art déco, November 9 – October 11, 2020
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
 
Jiro Kamata – Voices, October 16 – November 21
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
New in the Collection, thru January 3
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
 
Gunnel Nyman & Dora Jung, July 2 – October 25
Venini, June 2 – December 31
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi
 
Noritake Kinashi Timing, October 10 – November 23
Inside and Outside, June 13 – December 13
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.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
Ā Mua: New Lineages of Making, June 6 – October 11
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Seed Stitch: Contemporary Textile Awards, October/November
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
Light Shadow: Koo Bohnchang, August 28 – November 13
Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia, www.koreanculture.org.au
 
Remembering Ricamo: Italian Needlework, August
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au 
 
Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder, and
Peta Kruger: Used, October 9 – November 22
Making Spaces, October 9 – November 8
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au