The James Renwick Alliance for Craft hosts a unique virtual craft tour featuring some of the most important craft destinations in the Washington, DC region. Join us as we step into the homes of private collectors, see exhibitions at some of the most visited public museums in the country, and experience the local studios that define the DC craft community.

Tour the Washington Glass School with the acclaimed glass artists Tim Tate and Michael Janis.

Learn more about Red Dirt Studio with established ceramic artist and community organizer Margaret Boozer.

Visit the Renwick Gallery, the only craft museum in the US capital. Here, enjoy a virtual tour of "Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020" with guest curator, Emily Zilber.

Learn about DC's influence and long standing legacy of Black American Art through the Howard University collection with Howard U ceramics professor, Reggie Pointer

Tour the collection of collectors Sharon and Bob Buchanan in their stunningly serene home on the Potomac River. 

See the contemporary art, craft, and architecture of collectors Bonnie and Gil Schwartz

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​In addition to this amazing line-up there will be room for Q&A, breaks featuring video clips of DC art and culture and a chance to meet fellow trip participants.

APRIL 24 - 25, 2021 | 
The Distinguished Artist Series features artist Kate Kretz

Artist Workshop/Studio Visit:
Saturday, April 24 | 1 - 2:30pm
Virtual Zoom event
$25 members | $30 non-members
$85 for all 4 workshops, members only

Free Lecture:
Sunday, April 25 | 2 - 3pm
Virtual Zoom event

Kate Kretz was trained as a painter, but creates across disciplines, choosing the most potent medium for each project. She is generally focused on creating time-intensive, intricate work telling difficult truths. Kate is on the Fulbright Specialist Roster through 2021. She has received the MD Council For The Arts Grant (in 2015 & 2017 for crafts, and 2018 for painting) and numerous other awards.
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APRIL 7, 2021 | 
Cicie Sattarnilasskorn, former Director of the James Renwick Alliance, will host a dynamic conversation featuring ​DC-artist Rania Hassan, who will discuss her exciting new work.

​Hassan is a past JRACraft Artomatic awardee who recently partnered with the Golden Triangle Arts District and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative to create a public sculpture pictured right.
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Rania Hassan creates site-specific installations that weave sculptural stories about our connections to time, place, and circumstance. The five main themes she works with embody ideas of community, synchronicity, identity, time, and memory. Her work is about levels of interconnectedness. From a single strand of thread, we are all connected.

Rania’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD), Amazon Web Services (Herndon, VA), and the District of Columbia’s Art Bank Collection (Washington, DC). Previous solo exhibitions include The Front (New Orleans, LA), Gormley Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and Artisphere (Rosslyn, VA). She has given presentations about her artwork at area Universities (George Mason University, 2014) and Museums (Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, 2019; Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 2012, 2015), and her work has been featured in publications including the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and Vogue Knitting. In 2009 she received a Craft Award of Excellence from the James Renwick Alliance and has been awarded multiple Artist Fellowship Program Grant Awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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