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AUGUST CRAFT NEWSLETTER

8/1/2020

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August 2020 CRAFT newsletter 
​CRAFT CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS

​​COMPILED BY JRA MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON

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.

CRAFT CONFERENCES
​Penland Online Auction, August 1-8
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, www.penland.org  
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GREATER ​WASHINGTON EXHIBITIONS & EVENT
​Artomatic 20: A Virtual Experience, July 20 – August 20
www.artomatic.org
 
Lloyd Cotsen Collection: Delight in Discovery, February 22 – December 23
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu
 
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
 
Women Sculptors, June 15 – September 12
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Josh DeWeese, February 6 – August 23
Chris Gustin, February 29 – August 23
Workhouse Ceramic Resident Artists, March 1 – August 23
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
On Instagram & Facebook
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
Samantha Briegel: Maintaining Comfort, and
The Winds of Change: Contemporary Ceramics of Taiwan, July 18 – August 29
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
​US EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION
SOUTH
 
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
 
Emilie Brzezinski: The Lure of the Forest, thru September 5
Phyllis Galombo: Maské, January 28 – September 20
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
 
Federico Uribe: Plastic Reef, January 9 – May 31
Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, Palm Beach, FL, www.ansg.org
 
Members’ Show 2020, May 8 – August 31
Contemporary Fiber in Florida, March 13 – August 22
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
Women’s Caucus for Art, August 8 – September 26
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 – September 6
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, TBD
A Telling Instinct, TBD
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
Holding Patterns: 2020 Fellows, and
Resilience through Craft, online August 1-15
WEAR | contemporary jewelry 2020, online
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, www.penland.org
 
Joshua Rose: Afterimage Anxiety, July 10 – February 6, 2021
Hui Chi Lee: Lián, Liàn, January 24 – September 5
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
 
Tributaries: Sophie Green, March 15 – September 27
Japanese Techniques in Contemporary Metal Art, March 29 – September 13
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
Arts of Global Africa, ongoing
Memphis Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, TN, www.brooksmuseum.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
Ana Lopez, thru August 15
Bob Marsh: Poems & Songs, July 20 – September 25
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 
 
Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, February 14 – September 7
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
 
23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, June 2 – September 6
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
 
Critical Function 2, ceramics, online
Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA, www.visarts.org
 
Annabeth Rosen: Fables, March 22 – April 26, 2021
Jon McMillan: Cloudseeds, February 21 – August 16
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 
Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City, November 23 – fall 2020
Adornment: Jewelry of the South Asia Nomadic Cultures, thru January 9, 2021
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu
 
Process and Material, virtual August 7-29
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
 
Scott Frankenberger: 45 Years – An Indiana Legacy, May 8 – August 30
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN, www.artlafayette.org
 
Contemplate Japan, thru fall
Iowa and Contemporary Pottery, September 20 – July 25
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
OUR Story: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, June 8 – September 8
Michael A. Cummings: African Jazz Series, July 17 – September 15
Cassandra Beaver, thru July 14
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Where Paradise Lay, April 17 - August 16
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/
 
Glass from the Permanent Collection, May 14 – August 30
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, www.muskegonartmuseum.org
 
Pulped Under Pressure, January 19 – August 16
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, www.dennosmuseum.org
 
Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey, thru October 25
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Butter, thru August 25
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org
 
Sculptural Dinnerware, and
Anne Mondro: Flora Series, and
Martina Celerin: Migration, and
Candace Compton paper: Homes & Vessels, March 16 – August 28
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/
 
Cloth Paper Scissors, Helena Hernmarck Weaves the Everyday, Feb. 15 – Sept. 20
Norma Minkowitz: The Sabbath Now, thru June 7
Recent Acquisitions: Fiber Art, December 7 – September 20
Nicole Kavekost,: Chthonic, July 16 – October 25
Foot in the Door 5, July 10 – August 23
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
6 McKnight Artists, July 3 – August 23
Eshelan, Lindsay, McLaughlin, Shaw
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                
Leila Abdelrazaq: nothing is set in stone,
Bound/Unbound” MCBA’s Artist Collective, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
Jane Bassuk, late summer
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
 
Full Circle, online
Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN, 651-292-3225, www.galleryofwoodart.org  
 
Renaissance Type & The Grammar of Ornament, January 25 – September 27
Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN, www.goldstein.design.umn.edu
 
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
 
In/Residence, June 5 – September 5
Del Norte Studio
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org
 
Silent Seller, April 27 – August 14
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
 
Ohio Diaspora, online
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/
 
Art of Our Appalachian Wood, June 24 – September 26
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Culture/Counterculture, September 20 – September 6, 2020
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
 
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
 
From the Heart: Artist as Commentator, August 1 – October 4
Contemporary Teapots, August 7 – July 25, 2021
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  
​
WEST 
Nicholas Galanin: Created to Hold Power, online
Museum, Anchorage, AK, www.anchoragemuseum.org
 
Maria Hupfield, thru November 15
Grand Procession: Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls, thru September 7
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 August 30
Rosie Lee Thompkins: A Retrospective, online thru December 30
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, www.bampfa.org
 
MOTO MMXX, May 23 – October 25
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 – November 15
Cool Clay, July 21 – December 31
Akinsabya Kambon: American Expressions/African Roots, February 2 – September
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, www.crockerart.org
 
A Family Dynamic, January 25 – January 20, 2021
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, www.fresnoartmuseum.org
 
Jen Graham: My Presidents, July 22 – August 30
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 
 
Ojai Studio Artists, July 11 – August 29
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com
 
Joanne Hawakay: A Wing & a Prayer II, January 11 – September 19
Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, March 14 – September 12
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 – October 11
Southern California Contemporary Quilts, August 1 – October 25
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org
 
Museum’s 30th Anniversary Show, July 20 – October 17
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org
 
Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – January 31
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 – September 27
From Combat to Carpet: Afghan War Rugs, January 12 – August 30
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, www.internationalfolkart.org
 
San Ildefonso Pottery, 1600-1930, August 11 – August 31, 2020
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org
 
Contemporary Chickasaw Art, August 16 – January 19
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, www.iaia.edu
 
Understanding Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, thru August 15
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, www.plainsart.org
 
Arthur Gonzalez, July 3 – September 22
Archie Bray Exiting Fellowship Artists, June 5 – August 14
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, www.holtermuseum.org
 
Steven Young Lee and Beth Lo, and
Wesley Harvey, August 7-29
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
 
Where Art and Tech Collide, January 25 – August 30
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org
 
Steven Holl: Making Architecture, March 27 – September 3
Playa Made, January 24 – August 31
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org
 
Transparency: An LGBTQ + Glass Art, thru November 8
Alchemy 5: Transformation in Contemporary Enamels, thru August 30
Richard Marquis: Keepers, September 28 – November 18
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org
 
The Secret Garden, extended
40x40@40: Manhattan Quilt Guild, extended
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 October 4, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT, www.artgallery.yale.edu
 
Contemporary Designer Bookbindings, thru August 23
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, www.britishart.yale.edu
 
200 Years of Indigenous North American Art, thru October 4
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, www.artgallery.yale.edu
 
Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Design, thru March 28, 2021
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, www.farnsworthmuseum.org
 
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, February 7 – June 7
Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History, March 28 – October 25
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org
 
Quilts of Cecilia K. Macia, and
Deeds Not Words, July 7 – August 26
Hollis Chatelain: Stories of West Africa, February 18 – August 16
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
Yoan Capote: Immanence, September 28 – 1/1/2022
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org
 
Boston Made: Arts & Crafts Jewelry & Metalwork, thru January 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
Human Impact: Stories from the Opioid Epidemic, thru August 16
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
Gloria Ortiz-Hernández & Lorraine Kisly: Art + Design, and
Explorations in Felt, online
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
 
Ramon Elozua: Structure/Dissonance, and
Abstraction in Contemporary Fiber Art, upcoming
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
 
The 1930’s Jazz Age Sculpture of Waylande Gregory, February 13 – July 26
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
 
Connections, thru December 5 online
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
Lucia Riffel & Lily Reeves: Outer Special, March 11 – August 28
David King: Reduced to Uncertainty, August 5 – September 11
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org
 
Climate in Crisis: Indigenous America, February 14 – January 10, 2021
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org
 
2018-2019 Fellows & Artists-in-Residence, July 17 – August 7
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
 
Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics, online
Japan Society, New York, NY, www.japansociety.org
 
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
 
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, March 21 – August 23
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/
 
Opening August 29
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org
 
Contemporary Muslim Fashions, February 28 – August 23
Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY, www.cooperhewitt.org                                                                                                                        
 
Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone, ongoing
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
 
Judith Schaechter: The Path to Paradise, February 16 – September 13
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, www.mag.rochester.edu
 
Roycroft from the Collection, online
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org
 
Maker & Muse: Early 20th Century Art Jewelry, June 7 – August 30, 2020
Japanese Textiles, thru September
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org
 
Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, February 7 – July 25
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
100 Years, 100 Women, August 18 – September 6
The Clay Studio National 2020, June 30 – August 22
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, April 25 – August 21
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Bourke de Vries: War and Pieces, summer 2020
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
 
Creature Comfort: Animals in the House, February 1 – August 23
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, www.shelburnemuseum.org
​INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, opened March 7
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com
 
Art of the Book, July 7 – August 30
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
 
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
 
Foreign Affairs, thru September 6
Aesthetics of the Archives, thru August 23
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  
 
Pride, digital exhibition
Amee Raval: Breaking the Mold, July 2 – September 20
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca
 
Kai Chan installation: In the Forest, postponed
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca
 
Sharon Rose Kootenay: Manitohkewin, June 13 – July 25
The Democracy of Jewellery, August 1 – September 12
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/
 
Connected, July 20 – October 20
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
Concealed Histories: Story of Nazi Looting[BE1] , thru January 10, 2021
Balance de Chine: A Continuous Conversation, thru May 10
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
Feast & Fast: Food in Europe 1500-1800, thru August 31
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
 
Peep into the World of Puppets, May 23 – July 5
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
 
Ellie Turner: Props for Play, and
Body & Soul: Seen & Unseen: thru October 6
Lois Pittman: The Fabric of Wellbeing, thru September 6
National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.nccd.org.uk
 
The Harley Open 2020, August 1 – November 1
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
Bring to Light, thru September 6, 2020
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Susie Freeman, WOWI, ongoing
Peter Lord: Hidden Things, coming soon
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
Lindsey Mann, jewellery, and
Standing Still: A Shared Aesthetic, online
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
Mid-Century Design, thru August
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,
                                                
Meissen – Folies de porcelaine, February 7 – September 6
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
 
The Art of Lace, extended
Black & White: Symbolic Meaning in Art & Design, March 23 – March 1, 2020
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Jólan van der Wiel: Design #5, and
Jennifer Lee: Falling Feathers, thru January 3, 2021
Sunken Treasures, September 7 – August 30
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl
 
Klei met een Grote K, January 31 – September 20
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net
 
Mondo Mendini, thru August 30
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl
 
Gijs Bakker: Basics, July 1 – January 10, 2021
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl  
 
Design in Dialogue, opens June
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, www.mkg-hamburg.de
 
History in Fashion, November 21 – September 20
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
 
Jahreaustellung der Mitglieder, July 10 – August 29
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
Cathrine Rabin Davidsen: Totem, January 26 – September 27
Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk
 
Kan Själv, thru August 23
Body Beautiful, February 8 – August 9
Textil Museet, Borås, Sweden, www.textilmuseet.se
 
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
 
Ivana Śrámlová: Beings, April 25 – September 22
Inside and Outside, June 13 – December 13
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp
 
Ngā Hohahoko, thru August 30
Ā Mua: New Lineages of Making, June 6 – October 11
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Sydney Craft Week, September 9-18
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
Hanbok: The Colours of Korean Lunar New Year, ongoing
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 
 
Fuse Glass Prize, and
Modern Mysticism, May 18 – September 20
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au
Craft galleries
​Artist Circle Fine Art, N. Potomac, MD
301-947-7400, www.artcfa.com
 
Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Ross Richmond & Brian Smith, July 3-16
314-361-4100, www.duanereedgallery.com
 
Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Une Exposition d’arts obsessionels de la fibre
215-247-1603, www.graverslane.com
 
Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH
Silica Valley, August 15 – September 26
614-225-9595, www.hawkgalleries.com
 
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Nancy Callan: Dialogues, June 19 – August 14
212-414-4014, www.hellergallery.com
 
Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, San Francisco, CA                                                                                                                 
Thirty new works
415-519-2857, www.jeffreyspahn.com
 
Jewelerswerk, Washington, DC
Gallery artists
202-337-3319, www.jewelerswerk.com
 
Lacoste/Keane Gallery, Concord, MA
25 from the Vault: Masterpieces in Clay, July 18 – August 1
978-360-0279, www.lacostekeane.com
                                                                                                       
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Serenity Now: Meditations on Humanity, March 7 – August 29
 
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA,
Gallery artists
617-876-2109, www.mobilia-gallery.com
 
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Russ Vogt and
Ron Johnson, thru August
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
Gallery Artists
215-923-7030, www.wexlergallery.com
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