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MARCH CRAFT NEWSLETTER

3/1/2023

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march 2023 CRAFT NEWSLETTER
CRAFT CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS 
COMPILED BY JRACRAFT MEMBER, BRENDA ERICKSON
​Learn about craft exhibitions and events by receiving the James Renwick Alliance eNewsletter or by visiting our Community Craft Calendar. ​

GREATER WASHINGTON, DC AREA CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, May 13 – April 22, 2023
Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, www.americanart.si.edu 
 
Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light? February 4 – July 1
Textile Museum, Washington, DC, www.museum.gwu.edu 

Black Like Me, thru April 15
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com 

Nia Alexander Campbell, Josh Berer, Patricia Daher, March 3 – April 2
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, https://athillyer.org 

Determined Women: collectors, artists & designers at Hillwood, Feb. 18 – June 18 Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC, www.hillwoodmuseum.org

Madayin: Bark Painting from Yirrkala, February 4 – May 14
Curated by Rebecca Cross, American University Museum, Washington, DC, www.american.edu/cas/museum/ 

Joan Dreyer: Score, January 14 – April 30
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org 

Jewel Tones, March 14 – April 16
Sparkles and Iridescence, February 8 – March 12
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org 

Green Madness, March 2 – April 5
Enamelists Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org 

A Cheery Charry Jubilee, March 27 – April 23
Departures, February 27 – March 26
Scope Gallery, Alexandria, VA, www.torpedofactory.org 

Kay Thompson Sumitt, and
Helen Joyce Burroughs, January 17 – February 23
McLean Textile Gallery, McLean, VA, www.themcleantextilegallery.com  

​Annual Black History Month Exhibition,
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January 28 – March 26

Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD, Art Centers | MNCPPC, MD
www.pgparks.com/2893/Exhibitions

2023 Annual Members’ Exhibition, March 31 – April 23
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD, www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org 

Freedom, February 6 – April 23
Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD, Art Centers | MNCPPC, MD https://www.pgparks.com/1810/Exhibitions​​

Unfettered, February 11 – March 18
Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD, https://www.portico3807.com 

Otis Street Arts Project, and
Deborah Reichmann, February 25 – March 26
Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD, www.glenechopark.org 

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

Heatworks 3.0, February 15 – April 23
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org  

Karin Birch: Surface Tension, March 3-26
NOMA Gallery, Frederick, MD, www.nomagalleryfrederick.com 

Wayman Scott: Earth and Life,
Gerald A. Brown: Care·ful/less, 
Lunar New Year, curated by Adam Chau,
January 14 – March 25

Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org 

Arctic Artistry, July 17 – May 4
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.org

Katja Toporski: Meet Me, February 17 – March 31
Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimorejewelrycenter.org 

CONFERENCES & OTHER EVENTS 

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Codes, stories in Textile European Textile Network Conference, March 2-4
Lodz, Poland, https://etn-net.org 

Cabin Fever Reliever, February 27 – March 3
Pocosin Arts, Columbia, NC, www.pocosinarts.org 

Collect 2023, March 3-5
Sponsored by the Crafts Council
Somerset House, London, UK, www.craftscouncil.org.uk 

Current, NCECA’s 47th Annual Conference, March 15-18
Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati, OH, www.nceca.net 

other exhibitions & EVENTS BY REGIONS 

SOUTH 
Ginny Ruffner, March 17 – June 11    
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, www.mmfa.org 

Roberto Lugo: Street Shrines, November 28 – May 28
The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL, www.thewolf.fiu.edu 

75 for 75: Diamond Anniversary, opens February 2
Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, FL, www.lightnermuseum.org 

New Expressions in Japanese Paper, November 11 – April 2
Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL, www.morikamimuseum.org 

Florida Contemporary, October 14 – July 16
The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, www.artisnaples.org 

Members’ Show, March 17 – April 29
Clearly Collaborative, January 27 – March 11
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org 

Karen LaMonte, opens November 13
Martin Blank, thru 2022
Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, www.imaginemuseum.com     

When Print Meets Paper, January 17 – April 21
Rbt. C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, www.paper.gatech.edu 

Envisioning the South, January 19 – August 19
Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA, www.hilliardmuseum.org 

Eri Sugimoto: Form, Pattern, Texture, March 10 – April 14
Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, www.nolaclay.org 

Knowing Who We Are, January 28 – July 23
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, www.ogdenmuseum.org 

Katherine Choy, Radical Potter, thru April 16
Monochromes, Japanese ceramics, thru June 4
Arte Sacra: Roman Catholic Art from Goa, thru March 12
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, www.noma.org 

Alex Podesta, Sculptures, thru March 26
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, www.lsumoa.org 

Flower Power II, February 18 – June 24
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC, www.ncpotterycenter.org 

Winter Resident Artists, January 21 – April 8
Emergence, January 21 – May 5
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org 

Something earned, something left behind, and
Neo Mineralia, and
Crafting Denim, February 17 – October 21
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, www.centerforcraft.org 

Gifts of Fleur S. Bresler, September 19 – April 24
Sherrill Roland, November 18 – March 20
Luzene Hill: Revelate, January 24 – May 15
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org 

Follow the Thread, thru May 3
Attributes, February 18 – May 22
Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, www.southernhighlandguild.org 

Signe Stuart: Flux, January 20 – June 3
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, www.tcva.appstate.edu 

Reverent Ornament: Art from the Islamic World, February 12 – May 14
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, www.columbiamuseum.org 

Art & Techniques of Bill Helwig, February 19 – May 21
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org 

Artists-in-Residence, March 27 – May 9
Jason Stein, glass, February 10 – April 17
Madeline Rile Smith, glass, February 18 – April 17
Susan Bryant, January 6 – March 22
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/ 

Matt Manalo: Philippine-Made, February 11 – May 13
TG: Transitions in Kiln Glass, February 18 – May 13    
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, www.crafthouston.org , 

Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, January 13 – May 13
Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, www.moody.rice.edu 

Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia, Nov. 5 – April 16
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, www.mfah.org 

Paulette Martsolf & Jo Westfall, thru May 2023
Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX, www.dentonarts.org 

Bamana Mud Cloth, thru August 6
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, www.dma.org 

Creative Splendor, Japanese bamboo baskets, thru January 2, 2024
The Ceramics of Tonalá, Mexico, thru March 19, 2023
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, NM, www.samuseum.org 

James C. Watkins, ceramist, January 7 – March 19
Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, Collecting a Master, thru March 12, 2023
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, www.amset.org 

OURStory, Human Rights Stories, January 10 – March 22
Jinny Beyer Retrospective, January 10 – April 8
Star Struck: January 10 – April 29
Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA, www.vaquiltmuseum.org 

Fibers of Nature, February 11 – April 1
Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA, www.floydartcenter.org 

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body, February 24 – August 29
Preston Singletary: Raven & the Box of Daylight, March 3 – July 2
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, www.chrysler.org 

Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, October 9 – March 19
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, www.vmfa.museum 

Annual Residents Exhibition, March 10 – April 23
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA, www.visarts.org 

Donna Polseno, Walter Gropius Master Artist, January 14 – April 8
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org 

MIDWEST 
Kingfisher Headdresses from China, thru May 21, 2023
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu 

Roe 2.0: It Ain’t Over It, January 28 – March 4
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org 
 
Celebrating Women, February 16 – March 24
Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL, www.fineline.org 

Joyce C. Scott: Messages, January 17 – April 30
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu 

Soyoung Jung: Inward and Outward Bound, January 20 – May 21
Your Grandmother’s Quilts, December 20 – March 22
Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA, www.iowaquiltmuseum.org 

Dolls: Playing with Identity, August 18 – June 18, 2023
Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, IA, www.vesterheim.org 

Handstitched: The cartography of quilts, February 17 – May 16
Hansen Museum, Logan, KS, www.hansenmuseum.org 

Dynamics of Flow, March 15 – August 18
The Carnegie, Covington, KY, www.thecarnegie.com 

Breaking the Mold: European Cast Glass, October 29 – April 2
Torched Glass Pipes, April 20 – October 1
Art of Refreshment, February 25 – August 27
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org 

Clay as Soft Power, thru May 7
Dopamine Dressing, thru August
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, https://umma.umich.edu   

Wedding China, opening online December 21
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI, www.dinnerwaremuseum.org 

Michigan Silversmiths Guild, March 13 – June 2
Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, www.med.umich.edu/goa/ 

YehRim Lee; Dopamine Dressing, December 3 – June 4
Shigaraki Ware: Clay as Soft Power, December 12 – May 7
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, www.umma.umich.edu 

In the Making: Modern & Contemporary Fiber Art, October 29 – July 16
Nightlife: Nocturnal World in African Art, thru September 10
Japanese Calligraphy Then and Now, thru April 9
Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, www.artsmia.org 

Tom Bartel, Karin Kramer, Liz Pechacek, Doug Peltzman, March 7 – April 2
Carrier | Community, and
Breach: Logbook 23 | Carrier, March 4 – April 23
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org  
    
2020-2021 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, January 21 – April 1
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org 

Fluidity: Identity in Swedish Glass, February 1 – May 28
American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN, www.asimn.org 

Moira Bateman & Blair Treuer: 2022 McKnight Fellows, January 17 – April 8
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org 

Form | Content, February 26 – May 19
Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN, www.galleryofwoodart.org 

Tommy Simpson & Amy Firestone, January 20 – March 18
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, www.craftalliance.org 

Traditions of Japanese Art, August 6 – October 8, 2023
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, www.nelson-atkins.org 

Terry Winters, opens March 3
Sharif Bey, February 3 – May 6
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO, www.belgerarts.org 

Future Tense 2023, February 23 – April 23
Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, Lincoln, NE, https://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery 

Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris, November 5 – April 2
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, www.toledomuseum.org 

Modern Japan, October 14 – June 18
Ancient Andean Textiles, thru December 3
Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession, April 1 – January 28, 2024
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.clevelandart.org 

Alchemy 6, contemporary enamel, February 4 – April 1
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org 

Interwoven: The Many Voices of Fiber, April 29 – July 7
Arts Beacon of Light, January 31 – April 7
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, www.oac.ohio.gov/riffe-gallery/ 

Quilt National 2023, May 26 – September 17
Women of Appalachia, January 13 – March 12
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org 

Global Wedding Traditions, September 16 – August 27, 2023
Songs of Memory, musical instruments and textiles, October 28 – July 23, 2023
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum/

Jessika Edgar, February 23 – March 22
Onslaught of Desire, February 2 – March 18,
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, www.udayton.edu 

Ohio Figurative Ceramics, January 24 – June 10
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, www.miamioh.edu 

Roberto Lugo: Hi-def Archives, March 17 – September 24
Contemporary Ceramics, March 4-31
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, January 14 – January 31, 2024
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org  

I Contain Multiples: 2023 NCECA Annual, March 14 – May 7
Western Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.westernartgallery.com 

2023 NCECA Student Exhibition, January 26 – March 18
2023 Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition, February 2 – March 18
DAAP Galleries, Cincinnati, OH, www.daap.uc.edu 

Terence Hammonds: Universal Magnetic, and
Ceramics in the Collection, February 8 – June 4
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, www.taftmuseum.org 

Tom Bartel & Richard W. James: Strange Days, February 24 – March 21
Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, OH, www.coldstreetpress.com 

Kirk Mangus & Eva Kwong: Innovation & Passion, February 17 – March 24
Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.solwaygallery.com 

Even More Exuberant Ornament, March 14 – April 15
Century Design Workshop, Cincinnati, OH, www.centurydesignworkshop.com 

Zeitgeist, February 24 – April 14
Artworks V2 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.artworksincincinnati.org 

Ceramics in the Garden, January 23 – June 18
Krohn Conservancy, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnati-OH.gov 

Robert Pulley + Dana Saulnier, March 12 – April 7
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, www.manifestgallery.org 

Emergence, March 13 – August 31
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanic Garden, Cincinnati, OH, www.cincinnati.org 

This is not a coup, January 14 – March 25
The Welcome Project, Cincinnati, OH, www.wavepoolgallery.org 

Marine Life in Glass, December 23 – June 16
Antique French Paperweights, January 6 – July 23
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI, www.bmmglass.com 

Fabulous Fads, February 1 – May 14
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com  

Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin’s Enduring Landscape, December 19 – March 26
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu  

Cultural Currency, March 4 – June 4
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, www.lywam.org 

Sarah Zapata, thru March 19
Andrea Chung, January 28 – October 1
Creative! Growth! Thru May 19, 2023
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, www.jmkac.org 

Gathering Voices: 20 Years of Collecting, February 8 – July 15
Vignettes, February 1 – August 19
Focus on Glass, thru May 27
Surveying Women in Glass, thru July 23, 2023    
Women & the WPA, and
Exploring Contemporary Art Jewelry Design, March 1 – September 23
Four Jewelers of Color, March 1 – January 13, 2024
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org  

WEST 
Protection: Adaption and Resistance, October 21 – April 9
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, www.anchoragemuseum.org 

Brenda Mallory: The North Star Changes, opens April 23
Substance of Stars, ongoing
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, https://heard.org 

Making Visible, January 14 – July 23
A Pattern, A Trace, A Portrait, January 14 – June 8
ASU Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ, www.asumuseum.asu.edu  

Howard Werner, December 16 – March 19
44th Annual Contemporary Crafts, February 10 – April 23
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ, www.mesaartscenter.com 

The Curious World of Seaweed, January 28 – April 30
Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, www.gracehudsonmuseum.org 

Michael Garlington: Totem Dirosa, opens March 2
Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, www.dirosaart.org 

Art of the African Diaspora 2023, January 18 – March 18
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, www.richmondartcenter.org 

Fight & Flight, April 15 – September 10
Bull. Miletic: Proxistant Vision, November 19 – March 19
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA, www.sfmcd.org 

Nampeyo and the Sikyátki Revival, thru September 15, 2024
Michelle Erickson: Wild Porcelain, thru April 2
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, www.famsf.org 

Quilt National ’21, thru April 16
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 
San Jose, CA, 408-794-1000, www.sjquiltmuseum.org  

Meditations in Glass, opens on March 2
Philip K. Smith: Light + Change, November 25 – May 7
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA, www.psmuseum.org 

Nick Vest, Artist-in-Residence, March 17-26
Igal & Diane Silber Collection, April 1 – September 17
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, www.amoca.org 

78th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, January 21 – April 2
Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA, https://rcwg.scrippscollege.edu     

Alicia Piller: Within, and
Strings of Desire, January 29- May 7
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftcontemporary.org 

Inspiration and Home, December 10 – March 11
Pinatas, October 28 – April 30
Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA, www.craftinamerica.org 

The Five Directions: Lacquer in East Asia, December 11 – April 16
Conversing in Clay, August 7 – May 21
Scandinavian Design & the United States 1890-1980, October 9 – February 5
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, www.lacma.org 

Eliza Day-Green: The Memory of Trees, December 10 – February 4
Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA, www.thestudio203.org 

Joan Takayama-Ogawa: Ceramic Beacon, January 28 – September 10
Beliz Iristay: Tracing Acculturations, thru April 30
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, https://riversideartmuseum.org 

Nancy Callan & Katherine Gray, February 4 – March 31
Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernadino, CA, www.csusb.edu/raffma

Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber Art, January 7 – March 18
Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, www.carlsbadca.gov 

Connective Threads, January 28 – April 15
Palos Verde Art Center, Rancho Palos Verde, CA, www.pvartcenter.org 

Jeanie Kashima: Topaz Collages, and
Ree Nancarrow: Consequences, and
Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck, thru May 27
Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, www.visionsartmuseum.org 

A World of Beads, November 19 – August 27
Pinatas, October 28 – April 30
Common Level Installation, thru August 20, 2023
Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA, www.mingei.org 

Art Quilters with Altitude | Elevated Threads, and
Recent Acquisitions, January 16 – April 16
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org 

Perspectives, March 13 – April 14
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org 

Rebecca Louise Law: Awakening, September 17 – September 10, 2023
Moemoeā, November 3 – July 27, 2023
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, www.

‘Ike Kanaka, January 17 – March 18
Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, HI, www.mauiarts.org 

Jacob Hashimoto: The Fractured Giant, January 21 – January 21, 2024
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, www.boiseartmuseum.org 

Transilience, January 20 – March 30 
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, www.holtermuseum.org 

Nicole Aquillano, and
Life’s Rich Textures, March 10 – April 29
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, www.redlodgeclaycenter.com 

Adaline Kent: Click of Authenticity, January 28 – September 10
Rachel Hayes, Someday When We Are Dreaming, May 23 – May 23, 2023
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, www.nevadaart.org 

Here, Now, and Always, Thru July 2024
Painted Reflection: Isometric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery, thru March 2, 2023
Virgil Ortiz: ReVOlution, thru April 1, 2023
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.indianartsandculture.org 

California Stars, February 11 – January 14, 2024
Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM, www.wheelwright.org 

The Nature of Glass, February 25 – December 31
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, www.nmartmuseum.org 

Architecture for the Birds, March 23 – May 5
Ann Johnson: Unseen Traces, September 15 – March 11
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, www.plainsart.org 

Weaving Data, January 24 – April 29
Joseph Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland, OR, www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 

Plateau Pictorial Beadwork, February 12 – May 14
Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence, February 3 – April 30
Dancing with Life: Mexican Masks, September 3 – April 16
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA, www.northwestmuseum.org 

Janne Tuunanen: Alvar Aalto’s Jyväskylä, thru March 19National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, www.nordicmuseum.org 

Ikat, A World of Compelling Cloth, March 9 – May 29
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, www.seattleartmuseum.org 

Preston Wadley: Abstract Truth, February 25 – October 8
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 425-519-0770, www.bellevuearts.org 

She Bends, redefining neon legacy, February 11 – October 15
Maestro Alfredo Barbini: Nature, Myth, and Magic, thru April 9
Out of the Vault: Soundtracks, June 18 – June 18
Boundless Curiosity: A Journey of Robert Minkoff, April 2 – March 2023
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org 

Northwest Studio Art Jewelry, ongoing
Art in the Era of the Pilchuck Glass School, ongoing
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, www.tacomaartmuseum.org 

Italo Scanga: Permanent Immigrant, and
Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School, February 18 – May 14
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, www.monamuseum.org 

A Precarious Edge, March 23 – June 3
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org 

Salley Maver: Bedtime Stitches, February 1 – April 30
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA, www.qfamuseum.org

EAST
Norma Minkowitz: Body to Soul, January 27 – April 6
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, www.fairfield.edu/museum/ 

Art & Science in Europe, 1500-1800, February 17 – June 25
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale, February 17 – July 23
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, www.artmuseum.yale.edu 

Eva LeWitt, thru November 11
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, www.nbmaa.org 

Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations, March 23 – June 4
Matt Paweski: Matrix 191, February 3 – May 7
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, www.thewadsworth.org 

Frederico Uribe: Plastic Reef, January 13 – May 28
The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, www.decontemporary.org 

Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts, Oct. 22 – Feb. 19
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, www.delart.org 

Turning It All Around, January 20 – April 19
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org 

Erin Seggers: Explorations, thru March 26
Center for Maine Craft, West Gardiner, ME, www.mainecrafts.org 

David H Masury, Furniture, March 3-26
Maine Craft Portland, Portland, ME, www.mainecrafts.org 

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, thru April 23
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, www.portlandmuseum.org 

Quilts in Canada, January 17 – May 16
Southern Quilts, January 17 – April 15
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, www.nequiltmuseum.org 

Konstantin Dimopoulos: The Blue Trees, April 20 – June 1, 2023
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org 

Material Systems: Design & Fabrication, January 30 – March 
Gallery 224, Allston, MA, Gallery 224 | Office for the Arts at Harvard 

Taylor Davis Selects, January 31 – January 7, 2024
ICA Boston, Boston, MA, www.icaboston.org 

Stitching Stories: Textiles in Conversation, September 23 – September 4, 2023
Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA, www.lexingtonhistory.org 

Creative Alloys: Boston Metal Scene, January 28 – June 4
Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted, thru May 14
Food Justice, November 12 – April 24
Riotous Threads from Gateway Arts, December 17 – June 25
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org 

Yarn/Rope/String: Fiber Art Now, December 8 – June 26
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, www.newbedfordart.org 

Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America, March 15 – April 16
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, www.cahoonmuseum.org 

Interconnected: A Fiber Show, February 2 – March 18
Mary Cosgrove Gallery, Worcester, MA, www.worcester.edu 

Paper Town, February 4 – June 4
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, www.fitchburgartmuseum.org 

New/Now, January 28 – July 30
D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, www.springfieldmuseums.org 

Lily Cox-Richard: Weep Holes, Thru January 2023
Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, www.massmoca.org 

Unbroken: Native America Ceramics. Sculpture, & Design, thru April 4, 2023
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu 

Continuing the Tradition, January 26 – March 30
New Hampshire Craft Gallery, Concord, NH, www.nhcrafts.org 

Gee’s Bend Quilts, thru April 2023
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, www.currier.org 

Liz Mitchell, March 11 – April 30
Cristina de Gennero: Sage Drawings, January 22 – April 26
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org  

2023 International Juried Exhibition, January 20 – April 1
Center of Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, www.ccabedminster.org 

Chip McKenney & Cherie Horning: Abstract/Organic, February 11 – March 18
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org 

Hoop Dreams: Basketball & Contemporary Art, February 4 – May 21
Neil Tetkowski: Common Ground, November 12 – April 9
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org 

Homespun, February 4 – April 2
Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, www.newpaltz.edu/museum/ 

Through the Eye of the Needle, thru April 22
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, www.hudsonvalleymoca.org 

Homecoming: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, and
Homage to Henry Okamoto, March 3 – April 10
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org 

Abigail Deville, October 12 – April 9
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, www.bronxmuseum.org 

Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo, thru March 30
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org 

Duke Riley: Death to the Living, Long Live Trash, thru April 23
Brooklyn, Museum, Brooklyn, NY, www.brooklynmuseum.org 

GHP Artists, March 17 – April 21
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org 

Tricia Treacy: Scaffolding, and
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo: Rituals Here, and
Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books, January 13 – March 25
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, www.centerforbookarts.org 

Designing Women, November 30 – May 14
FIT Museum, New York, NY, www.fitnyc.edu 

Funk You Too! and
Generation Paper, March 18 – August 27
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, www.madmuseum.org 

Weaving Worlds of the Southwest, February 17 – July 19
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/ 

Water Memories, thru April 4, 2023
Jegi: Ritual Korean Objects, thru October 15, 2023
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.org 

Hector Guimard, November 17 – May 26
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, www.cooperhewitt.org 

Guillermo Del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, December 11 – April 15
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, www.moma.org 

Blown Away Season 2, thru September 5
Fire and Vine, thru September 5
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, www.cmog.org 

William Underhill: Casting a Legacy, opened April 21
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu 

Three Lakes Sampler 2023, February 5 – March 12
Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, www.schweinfurthartcenter.org 

Taeyoul Ryu Royalty, thru March 19
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org 

Alteronce Gumby: Dark Matter, October 29 – April 9
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org 

The Mashrabiya Project, March 3 – July 23
Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Figuring Space, January 12 – April 6
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org 

Rose B. Simpson, October 7 – March 26, 2023
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 

Art & Design of Drift, thru April 23
Ghosts and Fragments, thru summer 2023
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, www.philamuseum.org 

Regional Juried Spring Open, March 27 – April 29
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneart.org 

Undefined, February 3 – July 20
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org     

Brian Fleetwood, March 31 – June 24
Self, April 14 – August 19
C3: Cloth, Culture, Community, December 16 – April 16
Everything but the Kitchen Sink, January 13 – March 11
Transformation 11, contemporary glass, September 9 – March 18
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, www.contemporarycraft.org 

58th Carnegie International, September 24 – April 2, 2023
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, www.cmoa.org 

Social Fabric and Contemporary Issues, December 3 – June 11
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, www.newportartmuseum.org 

Helina Metafaria, July 2 – June 25, 2023
Trading Earth, April 9 – January 28, 2024
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org 

INTERNATIONAL 

Op Art Textil, December 17 – March 12
Reverse, December 3 – March 26
Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, www.museotextildeoaxaca.org 

Jessie Fraser: I hope you are both doing well, January 19 – March 12
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.ca 

Double Vision, March 9 – March 31, 2023
Textiles and the Environment, April 27 – March 29
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca 

Karine Giboulo: Housewarming, October 20 – May 7, 2023
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 416-586-8080,  www.gardinermuseum.on.ca 

Caroline Monnet: Holding Up the Sky, January 13 – April 23
Fausta Facciponte: Little Tragedies & New Beginnings, December 2 – March 5
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, www.artgalleryofburlington.com  

Ariel Hill: Lunar Reflections, and
The Decorated Surface, January 28 – May 21
Essence, January 16 – May 14
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, www.theclayandglass.ca 

Weaving Cultural Identities, February 18 – April 15
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, www.mvtm.ca 

Liquid Landscapes, January 14 – March 4
Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca/

Albirda, January 21 – April 28
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca 

Joanna Rogers: The Chorus, February 23 – April 26
Craft Council BC Gallery, Granville Island, BC, www.craftcouncilbc.ca 

Land/Marks, February 14 – May 20
National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, www.dccoi.ie 

Maria Bartuszová, thru June 25
Magdalena Abrakanowicz, thru May 21
Tate Modern, London, UK, www.tate.org.uk 

Africa Fashion, thru April 6
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, thru June 25, 2023
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, www.vam.ac.uk 

Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern, September 23 - March 12, 2023
Fashion & Textile Museum, London, UK, www.fashiontextilemuseum.org 

Cotton, Land and Body, September 21 – March 4
Crafts Council Gallery, Islington, UK, www.craftscouncil.org.uk 

Huguenot Silver, thru July 30, 2023
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 

Naomi Singer, February 4 – April 18
Amanda Glendenning, March 3 – April 15
Making It 2023, January 21 – March 18
Make Southwest Craft, Bovey Trace, UK, www.crafts.org.uk 

Feather & Fur, February 4 – April 20
In Celebration of Mugs, January 14 – April 15
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK, www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk 

Glass, December 3 – January 8
Ceramics with Narrative, November 26 – March 19
Gunn Ceramics: Bypass, November 26 – March 5
HUB - National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, UK, www.hub-sleaford.org.uk 

Rezia Wahid: dancing in the womb, January 10 – May 13
A Private View, curated by Magdalene Odundo, November 8 – August 19, 2023
Craft Study Centre, Farnham, UK, www.csc.uca.ac.uk 

Neil Wilkin & Rachael Woodman//Harvest: Fruit Gathering, and
Jennie Moncur//Interrupted Views, March 25 – June 18
Anne Kelly // Well Travelled, January 18 – March 3
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK, www.harleygallery.co.uk 

Catherine Forsyth and Helen Pailing, and
40 Years of Glass and Ceramics, October 6 – March 12
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com 

Anne Montgomerie: Hand Me Down, thru February 28
Leonardo Drew, March 18 – October 29
Made, jewellery, October 10 – March 31
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK, www.ysp.org.uk  

Marlow Moss: Modern Conversations, thru May 1
Tate St. Ives, St Ives, Cornwall, UK, www.tate.org.uk 

On Your Table, domestic ceramics, January 14 – April 16
Margaret Brampton, thru January
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk 

Eleanor Glover, and
Julia Griffiths Jones: Kitchen, and
Thread of a Story, January 21 – March 19
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales, www.makersguildinwales.org.uk 

In Their Element, January 26 – March 26
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, https://ceramics-aberystwyth.com 

Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern, March 31 – July 8
Collaborate, Part III, March 4 – June 24
21st Century Commissions and Creations, September 23 – March 17
Knitwear: Chanel to Westwood, October 15 – March 11, 2023
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.dovecotstudios.com 

Bernat Klein: Design in Colour, November 5 – April 23
Japanese Contemporary Design, thru March 5, 2023
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, www.nms.ac.uk 

Jerwood Makers Open, November 19 – March 4
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, www.jerwoodarts.org 

The 1980’s: Fashion, Design, Graphics in France, October 13 – April 16, 2023
10 ans/Design 10. Ans du Cercle Design 20/21, June 23 – March 5
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, www.madparis.fr  

Vocation, 70 Years of History, and
Connections, and
Migration(s), September 13 – March 19, 2023
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana 

Alessandra Betrames: GOLD_Room #0, and
100 Shades of White, March 3 – September 10
8th European Quilt Trienniale, October 7 – April 10
Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, www.textilmuseum.ch 

Masters of the Future, March 21 – May 31
Ancient Abattoirs of Mons, Mons, Belgium, www.becraft.org 

Royal Embroidery, December 1 – May 29
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl 

Celebrate! October 15 – August 20, 2023
Handle with Care, November 26 – October 20, 2023
Alexandra Engelfriet, Van Achterbergh Prize 2022, September 10 – April 9 
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl 

Keramische Signalen, January 20 – May 7
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net 

Afghan Design, online
From Buteh to Paisley, online
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.nl 

Made in China! Porcelain, October 2 – August 20, 2023
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, www.mkg-hamburg.de 

Deep-Seated, November 24 – March 26
Modern Goods, November 5 – October 8, 2023
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, Germany, www.grassimuseum.de 

All Hands On: Basketry, thru May 26, 2024
Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany, www.smb.museum 

Uli Aigner: The Porcelain Code, October 6 – May 28
Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany, www.smb.museum 

Margit Jäschke – Kairos, December 10 – April 16
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, www.schmuckmuseum.de

Strolling in textile spheres, March 19 – July 16
Max Berk Textile Museum, Heidelberg, Germany, www.museum-heidelberg.de 

Archaeioptemix, March 3 – April 15
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany, 
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de 

Entangled State: 17th International Triennial of Tapestry, October 8 – April 15
Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland, www.cmwl.pl 

In the Making, January 14 – April 16
Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark, www.glasmuseet.dk 

Keramikkens Sprog, January 21 – August 20
Morten Løbner Espersen, Triumph and Catastrophe, September 4 – May
Naja Utzon Popov: Continuum, November 24 – June 4
Keramik Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, www.claymuseum.dk 

Lap-See Lam: Raining Dragon Scales, November 26 – March 26
Röhrsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden, www.rohsska.se 

Textile Layers, February 24 – May 14
Retro Mania, Swedish Textile Design 1920s – 90s, May 21 – February 19, 2023
Textil Museet, Borås, Sweden, www.textilmuseet.se 

The Studio Glass Revolution, ongoing
Hans Frode: Gas in Glass, ongoing
Long Live Kosta, 275 Years, ongoing
Swedish Glass Museum, Småland, Sweden, www.kulturparkensmaland.se 

Antti & Vuokko Nirmesniemi, October 28 – April 9
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland, www.designmuseum.fi 

Nanny Still: Glass, Design, Art, and
Glass – Hand-Formed Matter, February 11 – April 23
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.suomenlasimuseo.fi 

A Mysterious and Real World, March 4 – June 18
Onomatopoeia in Glass Art, November 19 – June 4
Toyama Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan, www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp 

Teacup Teacup, March 11 – June 25
Ceramic Art Museum, Shizaraki, Japan, www.sccp.jp 

Suji Park: Noise Collector, November 5 – April 2
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, www.dowse.org.nz 

Chili Philly: Crochet Social 2023, and
Unravelling Queerly, February 7 – March 22
Object, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com 

Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalyptus, March 4 – June 25
Carole Mules, October 8 – March 19
Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, Australia, www.araratgallerytama.com.au 

Mala-lukmarama (to gather together), February 5 – March 26
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, Australia  www.sturt.nsw.edu.au  

TexStyle 2023,March 5 – April 28
Gallery 76, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au  

Material Metamorphosis, February 25 – April 16
Manymak girri’ ngarraku, December 17 – February 19
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au 

Blake Griffith: Glass Beach, January 28 – April 9 
Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia, www.waggaartgallery.com.au 

New Exuberance, textile design, and
Built Worlds, February 17 – April 16
Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au 

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