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DECEMBER CRAFT NEWSLETTER

12/1/2021

 
​DECEMBER 2021 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS
​COMPILED BY JRACRAFT MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON
Learn about craft exhibitions happening around the world through the monthly James Renwick Alliance Newsletter or join our mailing list to get regular updates about upcoming events. ​
***Due to the shutdowns and various restrictions on gathering, the exhibitions listed below are tentative and may be changed without notice.  While most of the venues are open; others have closed again for the new outbreak.  The timetables for exhibitions are still in a state of flux. If planning to visit, please call ahead to verify the events are still open or require reservations.  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.  As they say, it is best to call ahead

CONFERENCES AND OTHER EVENTS

Art Miami, November 30 – December 5
One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL, www.art-miami.com
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GREATER WASHINGTON EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia, August 11 – April 10, 2022
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu
 
New Glass Now, October 22 – March 6
Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, www.americanart.si.edu
 
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, November 18 – April 16
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass, October 8 – May 8, 2022
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, www.americanart.si.edu
 
Lynda Benglis, thru January 2
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, www.nga.org
 
Let’s Dance: Jackie Braitman & Jonathan Rebailler, August 3 – January 15
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com
 
Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan, November 5 – December 19
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, https://athillyer.org
 
Kristine Mays: Rich Soil, June 26 – January 9
Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC, www.hillwoodmuseum.org
 
Holiday Sale, thru December 31
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org
 
2021 Post-Grad Residents, December 18 – January 23
Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org
 
SAQA Regional, December 7-31
McLean Textile Gallery, McLean, VA, www.themcleantextilegallery.com  
 
Blues, ongoing
Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Hillsboro, VA, www.crossmackenzie.com
 
Workhouse Glass National 2021, October 23 – January 9
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org
 
Random Bourbon Encounters, November 20 – January 13
Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD, www.portico3807.com
 
Annual 10 X 10 Invitational, December 4 – January 2
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD, www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
 
Arts in the New Normal, October 15 – January 23
Holiday Small Works Show, November 6 – January 1
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD, www.annmariegardens.org
 
Holiday Show, November 21 – January 8
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com 
 
Noah Breuer, October 27 – January 2
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org 
 
Artifactual Remakes, December 3 – February 5
 
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimo, MD, www.baltimorejewelrycenter.org
 
Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line, ongoing
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org
 
Winterfest, November 20 – December 23
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org[BE1] 
 
Thaddeus Mosley: Forest, October 17 – March 27
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org

OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS BY REGION

SOUTH
Lesley Dill: Wilderness, October 9 – January 2
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org
 
Lost Realms of the Moundbuilders, October 9 – February 6
Ways of Seeing: The Art of Travel, April 17 – January 2, 2022
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, www.artsbma.org
 
Julie Alpert: Altars, Keepsakes, Squiggles, & Bows, thru May 16
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, www.crystalbridges.org
 
Color and Form: American Depression Glass, ongoing
The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL, www.wolfsonian.org                                              
 
NEXUS – Leading Miami Collections, ongoing
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, www.lowe.miami.edu
 
Machu Picchu & the Golden Empires of Peru, October 16 – March 6
Boca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, FL, www.bocamuseum.org
 
Pam Longobardi: Ocean Gleaning, December 18 – July 24
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org
 
Holiday Boutique, November 5 – December 31
Environmentally Engaged, September 10 - November 23
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org
 
It’s Not Always Black and White, thru December 31
Peter Bremers, thru January 16
Livio Seguso – Nobility of a Poetic Dream, thru December 31
Contemporary European Master, thru December 31
Blue Madonna, thru May 8
Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, www.imaginemuseum.com  
 
Wild/LIFE, September 17 – December 3
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu
 
Quilts, Collection of Paul M. Goggans, May 8 – December 5
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, www.columbusmuseum.com
 
Raine Bedsole: Water and Dreams, thru December 3
Khara Woods: Axis, thru December 18
Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA, www.hilliardmuseum.org
 
Christian Dinh: Nail Salon, June 18 – January 16
P.5 Prospect New Orleans, November 6 – January 23
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org
 
Gallery Closed, from damage by Hurricane Ida
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.org
 
Candace Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers, October 20 – March 20
Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection, thru February 13
The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection, July 8 – February 13
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, www.lsumoa.org
 
Retail Therapy, and
Hyalyn, America’s Porcelain, thru December 18
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org
 
Mosaics, September 18 – December 23
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org
 
Suite Américaine, thru November 26
Black in Black on Black, September 6 – January 7
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, www.centerforcraft.org
 
A Living Language, Cherokee syllabary, November 19 – March 14
Modernist Design at Black Mountain College, October 22 – January 24
Walter B. Stephen Pottery, July 28 – January 17
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org
 
Black & White 4, August 28 – January 16
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org
 
Hoss Haley: Erratic, July 2 – December 11
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu
 
Corey Pemberton + Michelle Ettrick, October 27 – November 27
I is Another, September 29 – December 25
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, www.penland.org
 
Carolina Knives, thru December 22
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/
 
30 Americans, October 9 – January 7
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, www.columbiamuseum.org
 
Kim Cridler, Master Metalsmith, October 3 – March 6
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org
 
American Art Deco, October 9 – January 2
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org
 
Small Expressions, Handweavers Guild of America, October 15 – December 11
Eliza au Fall, September 18 – November 11
Emerging Fiber Artists, August 21 – November 11
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/
 
Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Later, Longer, Fewer, and
Copy Culture, Zine Made & Shared, October 2 – January 8
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 713-529-4848, www.crafthouston.org 
 
Fire/Works, enamel art, thru February 2022
Hidden Hands, Invisible workers in industrial England, September 1 – January 2
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org
 
Devoted: Spiritual Art in Mexico and New Mexico, thru January 2
Bamana Mud Cloth, November 13 – December 4, 2022
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org
 
Sedrick & Letitia Huckaby, December 9 – March 20
Hand Stitch 2021, September 29 – November 28
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX, www.samfa.org
 
Dafna Kaffeman: Flameworked Glass, August 12 – December 12
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org
 
Karen LaMonte: Théâtre de la Mode, September 9 – January 2
Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA, www.barryartmuseum.odu.edu
 
Annabeth Rosen: Fables, thru October 17
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, www.vmfa.museum
 
Of Mud & Blood, November 12 – January 9
Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA, www.visarts.org
 
Tech Couture, August 27 – March 6, 2022
Eric Standley: The Lesson of Atticus, thru December 26
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, www.taubmanmuseum.or
MIDWEST
Nancy Rubin: Our Friend Fluid Metal, September 30 – September 1, 2022
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu[BE1] 
 
Small Works, November 27 – December 18
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org
 
Gallery Artists
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com
 
Andrea R. Klutzke, Sown Together Too, and
Jim Ferringer, December 17 – February 27
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN, www.artlafayette.org
 
Liz Quisgard: Dazzle, Pattern, Color, Bling, September 18 – February 27
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, www.fwmoa.org
 
Studio to Contemporary Glass, August 24 – July 2022
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu
 
Denise Mucci Furnish: Painted Quilts, October 15 – December 7
Valerie C. White: The Roots & Refuge Series, November 5 – March 1
John Lefelhocz; juxtapassion, December 10 – February 22
SAQA Primal Forces: Earth, September 17 – January 11
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org
 
Crafting the Vernacular, November 20 – April 3
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org
 
Quilts from Kentucky and Beyond, online
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, www.speedmuseum.org
 
Neha Vedpathak: Time (Constant, Suspended, Collapsed) October 7 – January 9
Steeped in Tradition, contemporary teaware, October 23 – March 20
Restrained/Unrestrained, December 18 – July 17
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Wedding China, opens December 21
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org
 
Mark Meier, ceramics, and
Austen Brantley, Weathered, and
Frank James Fisher, Ceramic Planes, December 13 – March 4
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/
 
We Write to You about Africa, ongoing
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, www.umma.umich.edu
 
Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock, October 30 – February 13
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, www.cranbrookartmuseum.org
 
Kamoda Shōji: The Art of Change, December 11 – April 17
Virgil Ortiz: Convergence, August 21 – April 3
Unexpected Turns: American Basket-Weaving Traditions, March 11 – December 12
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org
 
Holiday Exhibition, and
MN NICE graduates, November 14 – December 30
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
                                                                                                                    
Yazmín Hidalgo: El Origen, November 12 – January 16
MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Fellowship XV, October 28 – January 2
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
Holiday Gallery, November 2 – December 24
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
Step Up to Plate – Second Inning, September 6 – December 27
Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN, www.galleryofwoodart.org
 
Reflection Tea: 18th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, January 21 – April 25
Holiday Shopping, November 12 – December 19
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org
 
Pursuing Exceptional Ceramics, thru March 27
Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles, September 25 – March 6
The Treasury: The Splendor of Liturgical Objects, thru December 13
Testimony: Afro-American Artists Collective, June 5 – March 27
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org
 
Alice Kettle: The Towers, and
Joann Quiñones: La Gruta/the Grotto, September 3 – February 5
{Not} Quiet on the Western Front, and
Journeys, thru January 8
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org
 
Textile and Fober Art, juried exhibition, January – April 2022
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery
 
Glass (un)Defined, March 27 – March 27, 2022
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, www.toledomuseum.org
 
Popular Art from Early Modern Korea, October 29 – April 24
Native North America, and
Ancient Andean Textiles, December 4 – December 4, 2022
Mola Textiles of Panamá, November 22 – January 9
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org
 
Gifts of the Craftsmen, November 7 – December 23
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org
 
2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition, October 30 – January 7
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/
 
Mark and Kim Moyer Collection, thru June 11, 2022
Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH, www.zanesvilleart.org
 
OH+5, January – March 2022
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Textures: The Art of Black Hair, September 10 – August 7, 2022
Forever Chanel/Coco + Karl, June 11 – February 27, 2022
Stitched: Regional Dress across Europe, January 26 – December 19
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum[BE2] /        
 
Unsound: Hannah Pierce Ceramics, November 23 – March 6
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org
 
Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s & 1970s, October 22 – February 6
Bold Gestures: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, thru January 2, 2022
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
 
Adaptation: Marshall University Faculty, November 13 – February 16
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org
 
John Littleton & Kate Vogel Retrospective, October 1 – February 13
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI, www.bmmglass.com
 
Wisconsin Studio Glass, October 23 – January 23
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI, www.wisconsinart.org
 
Hooked by Design, December 9 – February 20
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com
 
Marie Watt; Companion Species, October 18 – December 30
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu  
 
Allison Wade: The Good Parts, thru February 6
Annabeth Marks: Extender, May 29 – January 9
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org
 
Mara Superior, August 18 – January 15
Playful/Pensive,
Alien Invasion, and
Get a Bead On, July 21 – January 22
Component Parts, thru January 27
The Art of Adornments, November 18 – December 30
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  
WEST
Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls, thru February 19
Small Wonders, thru January 2, 2022
Toward the Morning Sun: Navaho Pictorial Textiles, November 5 – February 13
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, www.heard.org
 
Art of the African Diaspora, coming
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org
 
Art & Feminism in the 21st Century, August 28 – January 30
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, www.bampfa.org
 
Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism, online
Mode Brut, September 4 – January 23
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org
 
Stephen de Staebler: Masks & Monumental Figures, November 21 – April 3
Hands and Earth, September 12 – April 24
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, www.crockerart.org
 
Guardians: Spirits of Protection, October 4 – April 26
Design Museum, Davis, CA, www.arts.ucdavis.edu
 
Bonnie Peterson: Another Glorious Sierra Day, and
Here She Stands: Women Artists, extended to January 9
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, www.fresnoartmuseum.org
 
Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art, and
More Impact: Climate Change, September 22 – January 2
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles,
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org 
 
Clare Rojas: Wayfinder, thru March 7
Pae White: Noisy Blushes, ongoing
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, www.sjmusart.org
 
Ashwini Bhat: Assembling California – Imprinted, January 8 – March 17
Don Reitz: Life is not a Dress Rehearsal, June 19 – February 20, 2022
Nicole Seisler: Holding Patterns, September 11 – December 19
Mind & Matter, August 14 – January 23
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org
 
A Garden of Words, contemporary Chinese calligraphy, August 28 – May 6
The Huntington, San Marino, CA, www.huntington.org
 
Moffat Takadiwa: Witch Craft. Rethinking Power, and
Consuelo Flores: The Roots of Our Resistance, October 3 – January 9
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.cafam.org
 
Jewelry and Harmony, December 11 – April 19
L.A. Made, thru April 4
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org
 
MartyO: Social Security, October 30 – January 23
Charlotte Bird: Migration, September 18 – January 9
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org
                                                                                              
Hari Walner Solo Show, and
Red & Green Beauties, thru January 8
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org
 
Our Residents, January 16 – February 26
Sara Ransford, Feeling-Walls, November 5 – December 18
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org
 
Suchitra Mattai: Breathing Room, July 24 – January 30, 2022
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, www.boiseartmuseum.org
 
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, May 1 – June 30, 2022
Kathleen Wall, Living Treasure for 2020, May 13 – May 13, 2022
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org
 
Recent Acquisitions, October 10 – February 2022
Archie Bray, Helena. MT. www.archiebray.org
 
Tom Bartel, and
Holiday Exhibition, November 5 – December 22
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
 
Rose B. Simpson: The Four, April 26 – April 2, 2022
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org
 
Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, thru June 16
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.miaclag.org
 
Clara Barck Welles, Arts & Crafts Silver, October 9 – October 2, 2022
Korean Ceramic Culture, thru May 10, 2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, www.jsma.uoregon.edu
 
Mesh, November 6 – May 8
Portland Art Musuem, Portland, OR, www.portlandartmuseum.org
 
Space Maker, August 21 – December 5
Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT, www.umfa.utah.edu
 
Conquering the Challenge, September 15 – December 23
Pilchuck Holidays, October 27 – December 17
Pilchuck Gallery, Seattle, WA, www.pilchuck.org
 
BAM Biennial 2021, November 5 – April 24
Tip Toland: Empathy in Clay, and
Trace: Terri Grant & Purnima Patel, July 23 – January 2, 2022
Julie Green: The Last Supper, thru January 23
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org
 
What Are You Looking At? September 26 – October 2022
René Lalique, thru June 2022
Counterparts: Glass + Art Elements, April 4 – April 2022
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org
 
2021 Holiday Exhibit, November 18 – January 2
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org
 
Boro & Sashiko: Down the Rabbit Hole, November 3 – January 30
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.or
EAST
Roberto Lugo, new ceramics, September 18 – December 18
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, www.fairfield.edu/museum/
 
Catherine Fichtner, and
Fields and Formations, September 3 – January 7
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org
 
I Sit and Sew: tracing Alice Dunbar-Nelson, October 2 – February 6
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, www.delart.org
 
In Residence, online
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, www.haystack-mtn.org
 
Straight from the Heart, curated by Peter Korn, September 17 – January 5
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org
 
Women of Vision, April 17 – January 2, 2022
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, www.farnsworthmuseum.org
 
Winter Sale, ongoing
Barkan Gallery, Edgecomb, ME, www.watershedceramics.org
 
Salley Mavor: Bedtime Stitches, and
Quarantine Quilts, September 14 – December 31
Abstract Design in Quilts, thru December 31
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org
 
Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning & Reclaiming, September 18 – March 20
Yoan Capote: Immanence, thru January 1, 2022
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org
 
CraftBoston Holiday Online, November 12 – January 30
Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA, www.societyofcrafts.org
 
Ekua Holmes: Paper Stories, Layered Dreams, thru January 23
Face of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, October 10 – January 17
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, www.mfa.org
 
Winter Show & Sale, December 8-12
Gallery 224, Allston, MA, Gallery 224 | Office for the Arts at Harvard
 
Michelle Samour: Mapping Borders & Boundaries, thru November 28
David Schnuckel: Meaningful Gibberish, September 11 – February 20
Under New Management, April 3 – April 3, 2022
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org
 
In Her Voice: Influential Women in Glass, July 1– October 31
Mundy Hepburn: Electric Garden of Unearthly Delights, and
30 Years of Fritz Glass, February 3 – October 31
Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA, www.sandwichglassmuseum.org
 
Brenda Kingery: Weaving Messages, October 6 – December 19
Interwoven: Contemporary Basketry, September 22 – December 19
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, www.cahoommuseum.org
 
James Turrell, Nicholas Mosse, William Burke: Lapsed Quaker Ware, thru Oct 2022
Kissing through a Curtain, thru January 2
Ceramics in the Expanded Field, opened October 16
Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, www.massmoca.org
 
Form & Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, thru July 24, 2022
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
 
Doug Herren, and
Marie Watt: Companion Species, and
Alisha Wormsley, September 26 – January 9
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org 
 
50 Years of Glassmaking, and
50th Anniversary Visiting Artists, April 2 – December 31
Museum of American Glass, Wheaton, NJ, www.wheatonarts.org
 
Clayfest 2021, November 20 – December 31
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org
 
Mutual Affection: The Schonfeld Collection, July 24 – January 30
AbStranded: Fiber & Abstraction in Contemporary Art, September 18 – January 2
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org
 
Isabelle Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper, October 16 – January 9
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, www.mwpai.org
 
Sarah Cain – Enter the Center, July 10 – January 2, 2022
Tang Museum, Skidmore, NY, www.tang.skidmore.edu
 
A Taste of Home, curated by Julia Galloway, thru December 24 online
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org
 
With Pleasure: Pattern & Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, thru December 11
Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY, https://ccs/bard/edu/museum
 
Bronx Calling, 5th AIM Biennial, November 10 – March 20
Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org
 
H. Schenck: New Introductions, September 7 – January 7
Carly Mandel: Premium, September 7 – January 7
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org
 
Modern Gothic, Inventive Furniture of Kimbel & Cabus, 1863-1882, July 2 – Feb. 13
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive, October 1 – July 10
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org
 
Coil the Show, November 18 – December 17
Eliza Au: The Architecture of Solace, January 7 – February 4
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org
 
How to Cook a Wolf, and
Impracticum, and
Collette Fu, What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me, October 1 – December 11
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, www.centerforbookarts.org
 
Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the 90’s, January 19 – April 17
FIT Museum, New York, NY, www.fitnyc.edu
 
Wood: Kawamata x Munakata, September 30 – January 16
Japan Society, New York, NY, www.japansociety.org
 
Bound for Versailles, June 25 – January 30
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, www.themorgan.org
 
Carrie Meyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, and
Craft Front & Center, May 22 – February 13
Story Makers: Burke Prize 2021, March 20
Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, October 24 – January 2
45 Stories on Jewelry 1947 to Now, ongoing
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org
 
Majolica Mania, September 24 – January 2
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/
 
Before Yesterday We Could Fly, Roberto Lugo, opened November 5
Japan: A History of Style, March 8 – April 25, 2022
Celebrating the Year of the Ox, thru January 11
Fine Arms and Armor, thru February 22
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org
 
Nature by Design, thru April 4, 2022
Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer, June 10 – January 2, 2022
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, www.cooperhewitt.org
 
Blown Away Season 2, thru January 2022
Glass and the Costs of Social Life in 1700 Britain, May 14 – January 2
Dish It, Corelle at 50, thru December 31
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org
 
Path of the Tea Bowl, September 23 – December 29
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
 
Christine Mauersberger: Marks Made, and
Quilts = Art = Quilts 2021, October 23 – January 9
Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, www.schweinfurthartcenter.org
 
Bill Stewart & A Shaman’s World, July 9 – February 27
Social Justice, Stitched Stories, January 14 – February 27
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org
 
Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper, October 10 – January 2
Japanese Textiles in the West, thru May 2022
Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org
 
Daring Design, Wharton Esherick, September 10 – February 6
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, www.michenerartmuseum.org
 
God Complex: Different Philadelphia, September 11 – December 19
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, www.arthurrossgallery.org
 
Michael Ferris: Extra-Human, November 5 – April 24
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Chandra DeBuse, November 5 – December 31
Ornaments from the Artists’ Studios, November 5 – December 31
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org
 
The Artful Gift, December 3-11
Allen’s Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, www.allenslane.org
 
Ahmed Alsoudani: Bitter Fruit, November 12 – May 1
Workshop As, October 26 – April 24
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
 
Craftivism, thru January 2
Deconstructing Bowie, January 7 – March 30
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.libertymuseum.org
 
Authentic: Truth & Perception in Chinese Art, thru July 5, 2022
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, www.philamuseum.org
 
Gathered Locally, October 1 – January 18
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org                      
 
Second Nature, November 11 – January
Pittsburg Botanic Garden, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburgbotanicgarden.org
 
American Portraits, The Family Farm, December 4 – April 4
Food Justice, September 10 – March 19
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org
 
Vanessa German: Reckoning: Grief and Light, ongoing
Victorian Radicals, November 6 – January 30
Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, www.frickpittsburgh.org
 
Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, September 3 – January 9
Sharif Bey: Excavations, October 2 – March 6
Locally Sourced, November 20 – March 27
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, www.cmoa.org
 
Paul Scott: New American Scenery, thru December 30
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org
 
Howard Ben Tré, “Two Capped” ongoing
Newport Biennial 2022, January 8 – May 29
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, www.newportartmuseum.org
 
Charles Sumner Bunn: Shorebird Decoys, online
Pattern & Purpose, American quilts, online
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, www.shelburnemuseum.or

INTERNATIONAL

Kutch – Oaxaca, ongoing
Affection to Oaxaca, ongoing
Paradigm in Resistance, arte textil Yoreme, opened September 20
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.museotextildeoaxaca.org
 
Commemoration: Vita Plume, November 11 – January 18
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca
 
Sama Hejazi, Roya DelSol & Other Monuments, September 15 – November 14
Jagdeep Raina: Chase, September 15 – November 14
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, thru January 29
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca
 
Garniture Remix, July 21 – June 30, 2022
Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads, October 14 – January 9
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 416-586-8080, www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
 
Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping, and
How to Read a Vessel, and
Slow Cloth, September 10 – January 9
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  
 
Walter Ostrom: Good Earth, July 17 – December 31
Meghan Sims: Capacity for Wonder, September 25 – December 31
2021 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, September 15 – January 16
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca
 
Judy Martin & Penny Berens: In the Middle of the World, October 2 – December 18
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca
 
Karen Cantine, metalsmith, November 27 – January 22
Craft Collaborations, thru December 15
Cloth in Context, November 7 – December 24
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/
 
Alberta Craft Excellence, September 11 – November 6
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca
 
Made in Ireland, October 21 – February 5
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie
 
What Colour is Metal? October – February 2022
Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, www.dublincastle.ie
 
V&A Trail, thru January 2
Bags: Inside Out, thru January 16
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk
 
Festive Jewellery, thru December 12
Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK, www.caa.org.uk[BE1] 
 
Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge, October 5 – July 24, 2022
Gold of the Great Steppe, September 28 – January 30
Women: makers and muses, May 18 – March 1, 2022
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
 
Materials Matter, December 4 – March 13
Made 2021, November 21 – January 9
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk
 
Lorna Jackson Currie, November 6 – January 8
Winter Jewellery Show, and
The Winter Show, and
In the Spotlight, November 6 – January 29
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk
 
Crafted East Midlands, December 4 – January 9
Michael Shaw: Activate/Participate, September 25 – January 16
HUB - National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.hub-sleaford.org.uk
 
Caroline Bartlett: A Restless Dynamic, September 21 – December 11
Presence and Absence, October 5 – August 6, 2022
Craft Study Centre, Franham, UK, www.csc.uca.ac.uk
 
Outsider Art//Kindred Spirits, November 20 – February 6
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk
 
Re-Purpose, October 5 – April 3
NGC Glass Prize, October 16 – March 13
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com
 
Björk Haraldsdóttir, October 23 – January 9
Basketry: Rhythm, Renewal, & Reinvention, September 25 – January 9
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
 
A Festive Feast, November 6 – January 9
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk
 
The Art of Wallpaper, January 28 – June 11
Making Nuno: Innovation from Sudō Reiko, September 17 – January 8
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com
 
Legacies of Empire, November 27 – January 30
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.nms.ac.uk
 
Tapestry. Changing Concepts, November 13 – March 13
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
 
Edmund De Waal. Lettres à Camondo, October 7 – May 15
Cartier et les Arts de l’Islam, October 21 – February 20
Thierry Mugler, Couturissime, September 30 – April 24
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, www.madparis.fr  
 
Jean-Michael Othoniel: The narcissus theorem, September 22 – January 2
Petit Palais, Paris, France, www.petitpalais,paris.fr
 
Robert Dawson & Richard Slee, June 18 – January 9, 2022
Tasses! June 18 – July 31, 2022
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – January 9, 2022
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Robes politiques, thru February 2, 2022
Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, www.textilmuseum.ch
 
Cécile Bertrand: Retrospective, September 5 – January 8
Ancient Abattoirs of Mons, Mons, Belgium, www.becraft.org
 
Long Live Fashion, September 25 – March 27
Secrets of Making, thru May 8, 2022
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Yoon Seok-hyeon, and
Korea, October 16 – August 21, 2022
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl
 
Love Suffering Lust, September 22 – January 16
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net
 
Memphis Design, thru December 31
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl
 
From Buteh to Paisley, March 3 – December 16
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.nl
 
Made in China, porcelain, ongoing
Heimaten, June 11 – January 9, 2022
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, www.mkg-hamburg.de
 
Gläserne Steine, Kai Schiemenz, November 25 – April 3
Fragile Pracht, November 13 – October 9, 2022
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, Germany, www.grassimuseum.de
 
Zart wie Eisen, July 16 – February 6, 2022
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de
 
Christmas Exhibition, November 26 – January 15
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany,
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de
 
Gizela Šabóková + Jaromir Rubák, thru May 30
East Bohemian Museum, Pardubice, Czech Republic, www.vcm.cz
 
Annett Biliczki: Scope of Distance, November 27 – April 14
Lino Tagliapietra: Maestro, June 12 – April 22
Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark, www.glasmuseet.dk
 
Susanne Hangaard, Dolls Feminine, November 27 – April 24
Danske Stel, August 29 – May 15
Natur, September 26 – March 13
Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk
 
Migration, October 23 – August 28, 2022
Röhrsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden, www.rohsska.se
 
Craft Rituals, September 18 – March 6
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
 
Intimacy, October 8 – March 13
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi
 
Kirsti Taiviola, October 29 – December 31
Degrees, October 29 – December 31
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.suomenlasimuseo.fi
 
Material Memory. The Porcelain of Sergey Rusakov, November 11 – February 20
State Hermitage Museum, St. Pet+ersburg, Russia, www.hermiatagemuseum.org
 
30 Years of Toyama Institute of Glass Art, October 23 – January 23
Towards Toyama, June 19 – December 12
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp
 
Approaching the Artists, September 18 – December 19
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp

Solo 2021, October 16 – February 20
The Stories We Tell Ourselves, August 7 – January 23
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz
 
Sharing Stories, September 14 – October 29
School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra, Australia, www.soad.sass.anu.edu.au
 
Sassy Park: Apothecary Now, November 18 – January 25
Happy Objects, November 18 – January 23
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
The Gesture of Narrative, December 10 – February 27
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, Australia  www.sturt.nsw.edu.au 
 
Barbara Dawson: ReCover, January 29 – February 27
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, :www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au 
 
Made/Worn, contemporary jewellery, December 17 – February 13
Tarnanthi, October 16 – December 13
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Blanche Tilden, Ripple Effect, December 11 – February 13
Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia, www.waggaartgallery.com.au
 
Stephanie James-Manttan: Sort Sol, and
A Thing for Bling, and
Lighting, December 10 – February 13
Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au

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