DECEMBER CRAFT NEWSLETTER

DECEMBER 2020 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS
​COMPILED BY JRA MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON
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​Learn about craft exhibitions happening around the world through the monthly James Renwick Alliance Newsletter. ​

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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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CONFERENCES and NATIONAL Events

Craft Boston, December 12-13, online
Shopping Online, November 12 – December 31
Boston, MA, www.societyofcrafts.org
 
Old Church Pottery Show & Sale, December 4-6, online
Art School at Old Church, Demerest, NJ, www.oldchurchpotteryshow.org
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Greater Washington CRAFT Exhibitions & Events

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
 
Ha Ha! Ho Ho! November 24 – January 9
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Ray Bogle: Smoked Pots,
District Clay Gallery, Washington, DC, www.districtclaygallery.com
 
6th Annual Glass National, online
Colors of Fall, October 30 – January 11
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
Gallery Artists
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
Liz Lessner: The Relational Object Project, December 4 – January 3
Amy Boone-McCreesh: Room with a View, October 16 – January 17
Jackie Milad & Hedieh Ilchi: Make It Visible, November 11 – March 3
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
The St. Francis Missal, thru January 1
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org
 
We Are Clay, September 12 – December 24
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org[BE1] 
 
Katharina Grosse: Is It You? Thru January 3,
Stripes and Stars: Reclaimed Lakota Independence, thru March 28
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org
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NATIONAL CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION

SOUTH

Blow Up II, October 31 – January 31
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org
 
Deco: Luxury to Mass Market, ongoing
The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL, www.wolfsonian.org                                                   
 
NEXUS – Leading Miami Collections, ongoing
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
 
Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, November 1 – February 17
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org
 
Holiday Boutique 2020, November 6 – December 31
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
Spread Joy, November 16 – December 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
 
Clay: A Southern Census, January 18-30
Function Fest 2020, November 13 – December 12
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.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
 
Teatime with North Carolina Ceramic Guilds, June 26 – December 12
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org
 
New Day. New Work, thru January 3
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, www.mintmuseum.org
 
Craft to Art: Fiber, thru December 27
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
Muddying the Waters, September 9 – February 1
Fantastical Forms, November 4 – April 5
Contemporary Baskets, ongoing
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
The Art of Detailing, thru February 4
Inspiration, thru January 17
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org
 
Joshua Rose: Afterimage Anxiety, July 10 – February 6, 2021
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu
 
Carolina Knives, August 3 – July 17, 2021
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/
 
It Takes a Village, September 27 – March 14
Tributaries: Ben Dory | Kissing Numbers, December 12 – March 6
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, Feb. 2 – January 10, 2021
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org
 
Chihuly at Cheekwood, thru January 10
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, TN, www.cheekwood.org
 
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
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org
 
For a Dreamer of Houses, March 15 – January 21, 2021
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org
 
Ginny Marsh: Reflections, November 14 – January 31
Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, www.goldmarkculturalcenter.org
 
Senior Thesis Exhibition, online
Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, www.swschool.org
 
True Texas: Folk & Traditional Arts of the Concho Valley, and
San Angelo University Art Faculty, September 18 – January 31
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX, www.samfa.org
 
Clear as Crystal: Colorless Glass, December 26 – July 3
Matt Jacob: Neon in the Neon District, ongoing
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
 
Small Works Members Show, December 10-20
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org
 
Made at Lillstreet
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com
 
Wright before the “Lloyd,” thru February 14
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, www.elmhurstartmuseum.org
 
Boyd Smith: The Rudiments of SuPre, December 18 – February 28
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN, www.artlafayette.org
 
Art Nouveau: Danish Porcelain, January 19 – May 9
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
60K Log Cabin Quilts, November 6 – January 19
Southern Quilts, December 11 – March 9
OUR Story: Human Rights Stories in Fabric, June 8 – December 8
Leni Levenson Wiener, Park Bench Stories, September 11 – December 8
Inspired by Endangered Species, October 9 – January 12
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Jordan Nassar, embroidered landscapes, and
The Sea Beneath Out Eyes, December - January
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org
 
Out of the Box, August 23 – December 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
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, www.muskegonartmuseum.org
 
Glass in the Fourth Dimension, November 21 – March 21
The Art of Jade, August 15 – May 23
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Delicious Dish Distractions, ongoing
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org
 
Paula Nadelstern & Karen Selva, Opulent Ornaments: Embellished Textiles and
Matthew Paskiet, Glass Retrospective, and
Mark Kaplan, While We Wait, September 8 – March 5
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/
 
Khatt Islamic: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa, October 31 – August 1, 2021
Nicole Kavekost: Chthonic, November 21- February 28
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
Holiday Exhibition, November 15 – January 3
MN NICE graduates, November 15 – December 27
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                    
Bound/Unbound, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
Gone but Never Forgotten, September 15 – December 24
Quilts by Dorothy Burge, September 29 – December 24
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
The Persistence of Mingei, March 23 – March 21, 2021
We Are the Story, October 15 – March 14
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, www.wam.org
 
Step up to the Plate, September 6 – December 27
Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN, 651-292-3225, www.galleryofwoodart.org  
 
Artists as Educators, August 11 – February 15, 2021
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org
 
Pursuing Exceptional Ceramics, October 23 – October 10, 2021
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org
 
Vibrant: Christina Erives, Lauren Mabry, Shalene Valenzuela, Oct. 2 – December 31
Noelle Hoover: Digital Debut, November 6 – December 31
Holidays at the Belger, November 13 – January 4
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
 
Judith Schaechter: The Path to Paradise, October 3 – January 3
American Quilts & Social Change, November 212 – February 14
The Bauhaus Experiment, thru February 7
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, www.toledomuseum.org
 
Medieval Treasures from Münster Cathedral, December 12 – December 12, 2021
Mola Textiles of Panamá, November 22 – October 3, 2021
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org
 
Gifts of the Craftsmen, November 2 – December 23
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/
 
75th Ohio Annual Exhibition, October 22 – January 8 online
Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH, www.zanesvilleart.org
 
Holiday Bazaar, December 5-20
Women of Appalachia, January 10 – March 15
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Fortuna: Designs by Vincent Quevedo, August 20 – March 7
Culture/Counterculture, 1960s & 1970s Fashion, September 20 – January 3
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum[BE1] /     
 
Dennis Meiners Ceramics, November 27 – March 7
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org
 
Walter Gropius Master Artist Ceramic Exhibition, thru December 6
The Wide Reach of the Bauhaus, October 10 – January 10
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org
 
Supernova: Charlotte & Gene’s Radical Imagination Station, October 13 – March 1
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu
 
Michael Mahady, December 4 – January 10
Earth & Water 7, Ceramic Art in the St. Croix Valley, October 30 – December 6
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org
 
Tokens of Appreciation, March 8 – January 4
Dr. Charles Smith: Aurora, thru January 31
Hmong Textiles, November 15 – February 21
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org
 
Mary Giles, and
Unusual Materials: Expect the Unexpected, October 21 – January 23
In Stitches: September 23 – February 13
Contemporary Teapots, August 7 – July 25, 2021
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org

west

Mother Thought of Everything, online
Artic Remix, online
Museum, Anchorage, AK, www.anchoragemuseum.org
 
Behind the Mask, Indigenous Artists Speak Out, opens October 10
Larger than Memory, thru January 3
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, www.heard.org
 
58th Annual Holiday Arts Festival, November 9 – December 31
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, thru February 2
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, www.crockerart.org
 
Bonnie Peterson: Another Glorious Sierra Day, and
Here She Stands: Women Artists, and
A Family Dynamic, extended to June 27, 2021
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, www.fresnoartmuseum.org
 
Deeds not Words: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, October 16 – December 6
Ryan Carrington: Contradictions, January 17 – April 3
Jen Graham: My Presidents, ongoing
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles,
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org 
 
Jon Keenan: Ceramic Journeys, November 7 – December 31
Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners, November 7 – January 16
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com
 
AMOCA Collects! Figure & Form, August 8 – March 21
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
 
Democracy 2020: Craft & the Election, September 26 – January 2
Here/Now: Contemporary Narrative and Form in the Yunomi, and
A Humble Legacy, thru January 2
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org
 
Pamela Earnshaw Kelly: Witness, June 13 – January 31
Southern California Contemporary Quilts, August 1 – February 21
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org
 
Creating Meaning, November 22 – January 2
Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, www.frontporchgallery.org
 
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
 
Wever & Steve Keohane, January
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org
 
Ellen Woodbury & Kathryn Vinson: Flora & Fauna, November 14 – January 10
Bonnie Lebesch: Gun Show, October 31 – January 23
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org
 
Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – February 14
Ceramics & Textiles from the Southwest, thru November 29
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
 
Kensuke Yamada, and
Objects of Desire, November 6 – December 22
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
 
La Vaughn Belle: A History of Unruly Returns, October 8 – January 3
National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, www.nordicmuseum.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
 
Little/Big, Annual Holiday Exhibit, November 19 – January 3
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org
 
Comfort in the Familiar, November 4 – January 31
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org

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
 
Suffragists, October 1 – January 8
Riverfront 20/20, September 11 – January 8
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, ongoing
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org
 
The Quilted Canvas III: Still Here! September 30 – December 31
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
Michael C. McMillen, Pequod II, October 10 – March 28
Anila Quayyum: All Flowers Are for Me, July 16 – February 22
Yoan Capote: Immanence, September 28 – 1/1/2022
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org
 
Fiber as Sculpture/Subversive Threads, thru May 3
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, www.mfa.org
 
Particle & Wave: Paper Clay Illuminated, December 19 – May 30
Stephanie Cole: Secular Cathedral, thru January 1
Makers & Mentors: The Art of Snow Farm, November 28 – July 4
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
 
From the Ground Up, October 4 – January 10
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersvalley.org
 
Clayfest, November 21 – January 16
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org
 
Postmodern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – May 9
Andean Ceramics, September 5 – February 7
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org
 
Memoryscape, and
Celebrating Suffrage: Women Artists, and
Astonishing Brilliance, Thru January 3
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
 
Concepts in Clay: Artists of Color, October 26 – December 31
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, September 9 – January 24
Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org
 
Outer Special, thru January 8
Urban Sparkle, November 13 – January 5
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
 
Viviane Rombaldi Seppey: Construction Site, October 9 – December 12
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, www.centerforbookarts.org
 
Power Mode: The Force of Fashion, online
Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse, online
FIT Museum, New York, NY, www.fitnyc.edu
 
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, thru 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
 
25 Years of the Windgate ITE Residency Program, October 23 – January 23
Women Transform Woodworking, October 4 – January 25
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Lisa Naples: Using the Sun to Find North, October 2 – November 15
Dennis Ritter & Grace Tessin: Reverie, November 6-29
Alex Ferrante: Verging Paths, Verdant Ends, November 21 – January 3
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org
 
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, November 20 – June 6
Upstairs at Steve’s, September 10 – January 31
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
 
CraftForms 2021, December 4 – January 30
2020 Members’ Online Exhibition, November 7 – December 21
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org
 
The United, October 2 – January 24, 2021
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org                           
 
The Heart Lives through the Hands, September 3 – January 20
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Bourke de Vries: War and Pieces, January 21
Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, www.frickpittsburgh.org
 
Paul Scott: New American Scenery, thru July 11
Beth Katleman: Games of Chance, thru July 4, 2021
Text, Paratext, & Images, September 1 – April 28
Silver, Metalwork & Jewelry in the 19th – 21st Century, thru December 31
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org

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INTERNATIONAL CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION

Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, opened March 7
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com
 
Jim Smith: A Passion for Beauty, November 13 – January 17
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca
 
Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, August 7 – March 1
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, December 7 – June 1, 2021
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca
 
Nurielle Stern: Fable, thru March 31
Sheridan Graduate Show, November 18 – December 27
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
 
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
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
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
Michelle Greenwood Brown, December 12 – February 5
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk
 
Marina Banguil, and
In the Spotlight, and
Playful Christmas, and
Playful Christmas Jewellery, November 7 – January 9
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
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
Second Thoughts, recycled sculpture, November 28 – March 7
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
No Strings, thru April 1, 2021
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Beverley Bell-Hughes: Tidal Echoes, November 28 – January 9
Eleri Mills – Egni, a decade of creativity, August – December 31
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
Kathy Williams, woven textiles, November 28 – January 10
Handcrafted at Christmas, November 12 – January 10
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
Mid-Century Design, thru January 9
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com
 
Julia Decubber/Stephania Lucchetta: Connect/Collect | Bijoux Contemporains, October 6 – January 3
Luxes, October 15 – May 2, 2021
M\M (Paris), October 13 – January 10
Le Dessin sans Resérve, March 26 – January 31
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France,
                                                
Compositions Dévoilées, October 21 – December 6
Vivienne Westwood, thru January 2021
Musée des Tissus, Lyon, France, www.museedestissus.fr
 
Uwe Wittwer, Aïko Watanabe, Jürg Halter, November 12 – April 4
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – May 9
Carte blanche | Anatomie fragmentée, September 27 – February 1
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Material Matters, June 6 – February 21, 2021
Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, www.textilmuseum.ch
 
Kiki van Eijk: Soon, Imagining, thru August 12, 2021
Common Threads, thru June 13, 2021
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Babs Haenan, van Achterbergh Prize, September 5 – January 3
Jalan 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
 
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
Advertising: Seduction in Sheet Metal, November 26 – May 9
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, Germany, www.grassimuseum.de
 
Max Ernst: sammlung würth, June 20 – January 17, 2021
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de
 
Christmas exhibition, November 27 – January 16
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
 
Helmi Remes & Panu Ruotsalo, November 6 – December 13
Venini, June 2 – December 31
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi
 
Inside and Outside, June 13 – December 13
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp
 
Miracle Soil: Three Views of Shinraku Ware, October 3 – December 13
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp
 
Lost Heads & Hobgoblins, September 12 – February 7
Josephine Cachermaille: This Way That Way, October 3 – February 28
Angela Singer: Second Sight, October 10 – January 24
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic, November 26 – January 27
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
New Beginning, November 29 – January 27
Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia, www.koreanculture.org.au
 
Remembering Ricamo: Italian Needlework, August
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au 
 
Sera Waters: Domestic Art, December 11 – January 31
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Kristel Britcher: Coalescent, and
Generate 2020, December 4 – February 7
Salute! December 4 – January 3
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au