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MARCH CRAFT NEWSLETTER

3/8/2021

 
march 2021 craft newsletter
craft conferences & exhibitions
compiled by jra member, brenda erickson
Learn about craft exhibitions happening around the world through the monthly James Renwick Alliance Newsletter 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. 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.

​GREATER WASHINGTON EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Temporarily closed
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu 

Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend, March 3 – May 31
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, www.nmwa.org 

Ancient Art, February 10 thru July
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, www.doaks.org 

Black History is American History, February 1 – April 17
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com 

Herstory, February 27 – April 3
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com 

6th Annual Glass National, online
Art with Heart, March 8 – May 9
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org 

Gallery Artists
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com  

Andrew Hladkey, January 20 – March 7
Jackie Milad & Hedieh Ilchi: Make It Visible, November 11 – March 3
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org  

Translations and Transitions, February 14 – November 7
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, www.thewalters.org 

We Are Clay, ongoing
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org 

Gee’s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights, February – August 2021
Katharina Grosse: Is It You? Thru September 21, 
Stripes and Stars: Reclaimed Lakota Independence, thru March 28
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org
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CONFERENCE & OTHER EVENTS

NCECA Rivers, Reflections, & Reinventions Virtual Conference, March 17-21
Sponsored by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Exhibitions in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky,  See www.nceca.net for more details.

Baltimore Craft Week, online April 12-18
Sponsored by American Craft Council, www.craftcouncil.org  

NATIONAL CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS BY REGION

SOUTH
Bethany Collins: My destiny is in your hands, February 13 – May 9
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org 

Crafting America, February 6 – May 31
Companion Pieces, thru May 24
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 

Glasstress Boca Raton 2021, January 27 – September 21
Boca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, FL, www.bocamuseum.org 

Florida Contemporary, thru July 2021
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org 

Epicurean Delights, March 26 – May 8
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org 

Super Bowls, opens January 9
Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL, www.moreanartscenter.org 

Place, May 1 – August 1
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu 

Andrea Dezsö: From the Murky Banks of the Chattahoochee, thru March 29
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, www.columbusmuseum.com 

Three Billion, February 6 – April 24
Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA, www.thehudgens.org 

Mapó Kinnord: Outside In, Improvisations of Space, March 6 – July 18
Built, February 27 – July 25
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org 

Meghan Gates, February 26 – March 27
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.org 

Daniel Johnston: A Thousand Throws, thru July 18
Andy Nasisse, October 20 – June 27
Objects of Intention, thru May 21
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC, www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu 

Raku: Spontaneity in the Flames, January 22 – June 19
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org 

Julio Gonzales, ongoing
Foragers, ongoing
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, www.mintmuseum.org 

100 Miles II, January 26 – April 24
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org 

Meeting the Moon, February 3 – July 26
Fantastical Forms, November 4 – April 5
Contemporary Baskets, ongoing
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org 

Resilience, February 6 – April 27
Thermal Belt: Artists of the Foothills, January 23 – May 9
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org 

Christina Laurel: Refugium, thru June 1
Suzanne Sbarge & Holly Roberts: Fictive Strategies, thru June 6
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu 

 Piece by Piece. Quilts from the Permanent Collection, opening January
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/ 
 
It Takes a Village, September 27 – March 14
Tributaries: Ben Dory | Kissing Numbers, December 12 – April 3
Measured Making: the 150 mm Challenge, March 27 – July 3
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org 

Liliana Porter: Man with Axe & other Stories, February 5 – May 2
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org 

James C. Watkins, Texas Master, and
Anna Mayer: Forms of Inheritance, January 30 – May 8
Weave Houston, January 9 – April 17
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 713-529-4848, www.crafthouston.org  

Between Sea and Sky: Blue and White Ceramics, thru May 31
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org 

Chris Schanck: Curbed Vanity, February 7 – August 29
Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, thru October 24
For a Dreamer of Houses, thru July 4
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org 

Interactions and Interfaces, February 12 – March 12
Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, www.goldmarkculturalcenter.org 

2021 San Angelo Ceramic Invitational, April 23 – June 27
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX, www.samfa.org 

Clear as Crystal: Colorless Glass, December 26 – July 3
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org 

Regeneration: Glass Studio Assistants, January 12 – April 1
Annabeth Rosen: Fables, March 22 – April 26, 2021
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, www.vmfa.museum 

Judith Lieber: Pop-Inspired Handbags, thru April 24
Eric Standley: The Lesson of Atticus, thru December 26
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, www.taubmanmuseum.org 
MIDWEST
Bisa Butler, Portraits, November 16 – April 19
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu 

Made at Lillstreet
Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.lillstreet.com 

Art Nouveau: Danish Porcelain, January 19 – May 9
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu 

Karen Linduska, January 22 – March 23
Southern Quilts, December 11 – March 9
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org 

Jordan Nassar, embroidered landscapes, thru April 4
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, www.kmacmuseum.org 

Martha Sullivan: Confluence, March 1 – May 1
The Elusive Cow, Bellevue, KY, www.theelusivecow.com 

Rivers Connect: Unstoppable Forces in Contemporary Ceramics, March 8 – April 2
Main Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Hts., KY, www.nku.edu 

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 

Karen Koykka O’Neal: Paperwork, and
Lauren Herzak-Bauman: Stacks, ceramics, and
Backyard Escape: art quilts, March 15 – June 4
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/ 

Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art, thru March 2021
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, www.cranbrookartmuseum.org 

Unexpected Turns: American Basket-Weaving Traditions, March 11 – October 24
Khatt Islamic: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa, October 31 – August 1, 2021
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org 

March Artists: Ani Kasten, Jamie Lang, Ian Petrie, Laurie Shaman, Mar. 2 – April 3
The Secret Life of Objects: March 5 – April 18
Pots from a (Social) Distance, thru April
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
    
Bound/Unbound, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org 

Eun-Kyung Suh and Liz Miller: 2020 McKnight Fiber Artists, and
Sylvia Hernández: Sacred Innovations, January 12 – March 13
L’Merchie Frazier: Freedom Rising, January 2 – September 19
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 

Pattie Chalmers: Everything and More, January 29 – May 20
Treasure & Tarnish: Heinrich Schliemann & the Age  of Heroes, April 2 – May 22
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 

Neil Celani: Digital Debut, March 5 – April 30
After Hours: Belger Arts Employee Exhibition, March 5 – June 5
Brian Czibesz and Shawn Spangler: Object Index, February 5 – April 3
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org 

Brooks Stevens: Mending Gold, opening soon
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery 

Mola Textiles of Panamá, November 22 – October 3, 2021
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org 

Functional Ceramics, February 5 – April 17
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org 

Build It: Artists creating Community in Ohio, January 29 – April 15
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/ 

Mark and Kim Moyer Collection, thru June 11
Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH, www.zanesvilleart.org 

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
Stitched: Regional Dress across Europe, January 26 – December 19
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum/      

Dennis Meiners Ceramics, November 27 – March 7
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, www.cantonart.org 

Future Retrieval: Close Parallel, February 26 – August 29
Bold Gestures: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, thru January 2, 2022
Anila Quayyam Agha: All the Flower are for Me, thru May 30
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org 

2021 NCECA Annual, March 13 – April 24
Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.westonartgallery.com 

Interchange, March 17 – April 11
Ombre Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.ombregallery.com 

Tributaries: Sheryl Zacharia & Marsha Karagheusian, March 6 – May 29
Caza Sike Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.casasikes.com 

Denise Roberts: Art Quilts, January 16 – April 11
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org 

Remnants, February 4 – April 25
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com 

Roberto Torres Mata – Untethered: Our Journey beyond Borders, April 6 – May 14
Supernova: Charlotte & Gene’s Radical Imagination Station, October 13 – March 12
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu 

Nicole Havekost, Susan Gangsei, Fawzia Khan, February 26 – April 3
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org 

John Naisbitt: High Touch, March 21 – March 13, 2022
The Shallow Act of Seeing, December 13 – May 16
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola: Magic City, February 1 – July 11
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org 

Mary Giles, and
Unusual Materials: Expect the Unexpected, October 21 – July 3
Expect the Unexpected, thru July 3
In Stitches: September 23 – May 8
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 

All at Once: Contemporary Navajo Weaving, thru September 26
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight, February 5 – May 31
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, www.heard.org 

Art of the African Diaspora, online February 11 – May 16
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org 

Common Ground: Artists of Northern California, February 27 – March 27
Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, www.sonomacommunitycenter.org 

Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter, online thru March 28
Rosie Lee Thompkins: A Retrospective, online thru July 19
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, www.bampfa.org 

Design by Time, and
Gary Hutton x Tom Bonauro: Encoded Holidays, February 26 – August 15
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org 

Elsa Rady: The Edge of Elegance, March 21 – November 1
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, online
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  

Pae White: Noisy Blushes, ongoing
Barring Freedom, thru April 25
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, www.sjmusart.org 

Homage, March 3 – May 1
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com 

Asjwini Bhat: Assembling California, thru April 18
Joanne Hayakawa, thru March 28
AMOCA Collects! Figure & Form, August 8 – March 21
New Acquisitions, online
Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, Online
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org 

Cathy Cooper: Dramatis Personae, and
Kazuki Takizawa: tomoshibi, and
Making Time, January 31 – September 12
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.cafam.org 

L.A. Made, November 18 – October 1, 2021
Making Waves: Ocean Ecology & Craft, January 16 – June 19
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org 

California Fibers, 50th Anniversary, February 20 – March 27
Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA, www.californiafibers.com 

Kevin Vincent: Material Memory, February 20 – July 4
Twenty Women Artists, March 13 – August 1
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, www.oma-online.org 

Tesa Michaels: Avant-Garde, March 7 – April 25
Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, www.frontporchgallery.org 

15th Quilt Nihon, thru April 17
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org 

Complexities, February 6 – March 27
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org 

Beyond the Mirror, January 23 – May 8
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org 

Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – July 4
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 

Kathleen Wall, Living Treasure for 2020, April 4 – March 13, 2022
Museum of Indians Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM, www.miaclab.org 

Tom Jones: Strong Unrelenting Spirits, thru March 28
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, www.iaia.edu 

Archie Bray Resident Artists, March 10-25
Beyond the Brickyard, February 13 – April 11
Archie Bray, Helena. MT. www.archiebray.org 

Christina Ervives, featured artist, and 
Fluid Expressions, March 5 – May 1
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com 

Rose B. Simpson: The Four, April 26 – April 2, 2022
Shifting Horizons, March 27 – August 1
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org 

Temporarily closed
National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, www.nordicmuseum.org 

Pulped Under Pressure, January 29 – July 4
Julie Green: The Last Supper, thru October 21
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org 

Sheltered, January 14 – March 20
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org 

Slice Quilts, February 3 – May 5
Birds of a Feather, thru March 28
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org 
EAST
​Vessel Invitational: Revisioning the Receptacle, and
Round About: Reconsidering the Object in Space, January 16 – May 23
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org 

Alumni and Fellows, January 22 – April 7
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org 

Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Design, thru March 28, 2021
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, www.farnsworthmuseum.org 

Untitled 2020, February 12 – May 31
Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History, ongoing
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org 

Edges, January 7 – March 27
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org 

Michael C. McMillen, Pequod II, October 10 – March 28
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 

Sonya Clark: Heavenly Bound and
Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, April 9 – September 12
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Tamara Kostianovsky: Savage Legacy, March 13 – August 22
Under New Management, April 3 – April 3, 2022
Particle & Wave: Paper Clay Illuminated, December 19 – May 30
Makers & Mentors: The Art of Snow Farm, November 28 – July 4
Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay, thru March 14, 2021
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org 

Bruce Dehnert: Architectonic, and
Laura Moriarty: Resurfacing, and
Glass in the Expanded Field, January 24 – April 18
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org  

Four Quiltmakers, Four American Stories, online
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, www.newarkmuseumart.org 

Meet the Artists, February 27 – April 3
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersvalley.org 

Playing with Fire: Altered Atmosphere, March 13 – April 24
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org 

Postmodern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – May 9
Andean Ceramics, September 5 – May 1
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org 

Richard Friedberg: Terrible Beauty, February 27 – May 20
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, www.mwpai.org 

SoLow Cellars: Collection of John & Andrea Gill, February 25 – July 24
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu 

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics & Beyond, thru June 6
Tang Museum, Skidmore, NY, www.tang.skidmore.edu 

Concepts in Clay: Artists of Color, October 26 – March 31
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org 

Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, September 9 – April 5
Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org 

Sound Visions, online February 20 – May 31
Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY, www.lehmangallery.org 

David King: Reduced to Uncertainty, March 25 – May 7
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org 

Climate in Crisis: Indigenous America, February 14 – June 20, 2021
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org 

GHP Artists, April 9-30
Taili Wu: Where is the Bike Shop? February 19 – March 19
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org 

Out of Sight, Beyond Touch, and
2019 Artists-in-Residence, January 15 – March 28
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 

Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, October 24 – August 15
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, September 9 – April 25
45 Stories on Jewelry 1947 to Now, ongoing
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org 

Eileen Gray, online
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/ 

Shapes from out of Nowhere, ceramics of Robert A. Ellison jr., Feb. 22 – August 29
Jewelry for America, ongoing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org 

Dish It, Corelle at 50, thru April 
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org 

Lisa Karrer: Shelter, December 11 – March 28
Making Strange, February 12 – May 30
Ani Hoover: Forget-Me-Not, October 9 – May 2
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org 

Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org 

Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, February 7 – October 3
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Kevin Snipes: Is/Is Not, March 5-28
Small Favors, March 5 – April 25
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org 

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, November 20 – June 6
Fabric As… . thru April 18
Elizabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand, March 5 – August 15
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 

2021 Faculty Exhibition, online January 15 – April 2
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org 

Light in Transmission, February 5 – May 9 
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org     

Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, April 9 – August 21
The Heart Lives through the Hands, September 3 – March 20
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org 

Bourke de Vries: War and Pieces, September 5
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
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org

INTERNATIONAL

Esmeralda, aqua. Azur, ongoing
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.mexicoescultura.com 

Tina Struthers, March 20 – May 17
Janet Macpherson: Hybrid Land, thru March 13
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca 

Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, August 7 – March 20
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
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Boyle, February 4 – May 16
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 416-586-8080, www.gardinermuseum.on.ca 

Temporarily closed
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  

Nikola Wojewoda: Garden of the Gods, February 23 – July 15
Morgan Kamocki Allaby: Marooned, and
Nature Inspired, February 23 – May 9
Shared Experiences, January 14 – March 15
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca 

Murray Gibson & Donald Stuart: Homage to Women, July 17 – August 18
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca 

Marginalia, March 20 – May 8
Threading Black, January 23 – March 13
Crafted NWT, February 6 – May 29
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/

Alberta Craft Excellence: 40th Anniversary, April 10 – June 19
Manitohkewein// Sacred Power Made Visible, January 23 – April 3
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca 

What Colour is Metal? March 12 – June 6
Narrative Tools, thru May 2021
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie 

Bags: Inside Out, November 21 – September 23
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk 

The Macclesfield Psalter, December 16 – May 1
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 

Jess Davies, February 13 – March 28
World of Puppets, January 23 – May 16
Westcountry Potters Association, March 23 – May 9
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk 

Temporarily closed
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk 

Jo Fairfax: Play, February 13 – May 16
National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.nccd.org.uk 

Same Sea, Different Boat, April 17 – June 27
The Curator’s Choice, April 17 – July 11
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk 

No Strings, thru April 1, 2021
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com 

Monochrome, coming soon
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk 

Stone, May 8 – July 19
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk 

Archie Brennan: Tapestry Goes Pop, March 26 – June 26
Elaine Wilson: The Art of Being an Apprentice, March 3 – May 3
Pinboard: Postcards from Edinburgh, November 11 – March 16
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com 

Julies Decubber et Stefania Lucchetta: bijoux, thru May 11
Un Printemps Incertain, December 16 – May 11
Luxes, October 15 – May 2, 2021
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, www.madparis.fr  
    
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
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 
 
Human After All, October 10 – May 9
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl 

More Organic, January 20 – May 16
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net 

Design from Past & Present, thru May 9, 2021
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl 

Art on Display 1949-1969, thru March 7
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl  

Peter Gustaf Dorén: Hamburg c. 1900, February 5 – May 30
Syria 2087, thru April 25
The Language of Fashion, thru October 31, 2022
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 

Fe. Steel Prize 2020, November 5 – July 18
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de

Ulrike Kleine-Benhke und Silke Trekel: Vomo Material zur Form, Mar. 5 – April 17
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, www.glasmuseet.dk 

#claydiesselfies, January 30 – June 13
Erick Veistrup Collection: Clay is Life, November 14 – May 24
Hans-Henrik Dyhr’s Collection, February 5 – June 13
Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk 

We Knit for Peace, February 14 – May 16
Fashion Exposed, October 10 – May 2
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 

Ittala, March 26 – September 19
Gunnel Nyman, open archives, January 29 – May 30
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi 

Tommi Toija, and
Lasismi, February 12 – April 18
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi 

Sadhiko Takahashi: Playtime, March 6 – June 22
Interaction: A Resounding Mind, December 12 – March 14
Czech Glass Legends, December 19 – June 13
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp 

Meiji Ceramics, March 20 – June 6
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp 

Jane Dodd, Wild Domain, February 20 – June 27
Fool’s Gold, February 2 – May 16
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz 

Julie Monro-Allison | HDR Season One, March 26 – April 8
Angela Valamanesh: About being there, February 10 – March 12
School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra, Australia, www.soad.sass.anu.edu.au 

Signatures: The Mark as an Embodiment of Identity and Intent, March 25 – May 15
Anita Johnson Larkin: Come to Me without a Word, February 4 – March 20
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com 

Minhwa Today, February 8 – April 1
Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, Australia, www.koreanculture.org.au 

[Not a] Basket Case, March 6 – April 1
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au  

Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder, February 5 – April 25
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au 

Ulrica Trulsson: Collect, February 26 – March 28
Pop Mart, and
In-House, February 26 – April 26
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
Carol Shinn, March 13 – April 17
314-361-4100, www.duanereedgallery.com 

Nature/Nurture, March 4 – June 21
Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA, www.ferrincontemporary.com 

Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA    
Gallery Artists
215-247-1603, www.graverslane.com 

Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH
Harue Shimomoto and Claire Kelly, February 22 – March 28
614-225-9595, www.hawkgalleries.com 

Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Christina Bothwell: Luminous Dreams in Cataclysmic Times, February 12 – April 3
212-414-4014, www.hellergallery.com 

Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, San Francisco, CA     
415-519-2857, www.jeffreyspahn.com 

Jewelerswerk, Washington, DC
Gallery Artists
202-337-3319, www.jewelerswerk.com 

Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, NY
Jeff Shapiro, Cascades and Glacial Landscapes, online February 8 – March 6
Tradition Redefined: Rosanjin and His Rivals, opens March 11
212-799-4021, www.mirviss.com 

Lacoste/Keane Gallery, Concord, MA
Beth Lo and Jennifer Dutchuk, March 20 – April 20
Paul S. Briggs, February 13 – March 13
978-360-0279, www.lacostekeane.com 
    
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Kim Crider, spring 2021
490-990-7342, www.lisasettegallery.com 

Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 
Jeanie Pratt, February 23 – April 30
Domestic Disturbances, February 1 – March 31
617-876-2109, www.mobilia-gallery.com 

Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Being Human, March 6 – April 25
614-221-8580, www.sherriegallerie.com 

Trax Ceramic Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Online only
510-540-8729, www.traxgallery.com

Vetri Glass, Seattle, WA
Gallery artists
206-667-9608, www.vetriglass.com 

Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio K.O.S. January 15 – March 20
215-923-7030, www.wexlergallery.com ​

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