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MAY CRAFT NEWSLETTER

5/5/2021

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MAY 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. ​
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*** Due to the shutdowns and various restrictions on gathering, the exhibitions listed below are tentative and may be changed without notice. If planning to visit, please call ahead to verify the events are still open. A small benefit is that many venues have put their shows online and added other objects to their websites which are rarely seen online or in person.

​CONFERENCE & OTHER EVENTS

Maine Pottery Tour, May 1-2
Sponsored by the Maine Craft Association, www.mainepotterytour.org

Transition Conference (virtual), May 5-8
Presented by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
Hosted by the Metal Museum, www.metalmuseum.org

29th Annual St Croix Valley Pottery Tour, May 7-9
Sponsored by Minnesota Potters of Upper St. Croix River, www.minnesotapotters.org

Urban Glass Virtual Gala & Auction, May 12
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org

Glass Art Society Virtual 2021 Conference, May 20-22
Sponsored by the Glass Art Society, www.glassart.org
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​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

Much out of Little, May 21 – June 26
1111 Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com

Hadria Mendoza & Kirsty Little: From the Earth, April 26 – July 31
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, www.zenithgallery.com

The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky, April 6 - September 5
Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC, www.hillwoodmuseum.org

Kathleen Roundtree, Quilts, April 26 – May 23
McLean Textile Gallery, McLean, VA, www.themcleantextilegallery.com

Arts for All, May 12 – August 1
6th Annual Glass National, online
Art with Heart, March 8 – May 9
Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, www.workhousearts.org

New Work – Spring 2021
Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, www.waverlystreetgallery.com

Lynn Cazabon: Losing Winter, May 28 – August 8
MICA Thesis Exhibition, April 2 – May 14
Visarts, Rockville, MD, www.visartscenter.org

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

Emily Lamb, Coalescence, March 9 – May 22
(in) Touch, Connectivity through Clay, April 3 – May 22
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, www.baltimoreclayworks.org
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Gee’s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights, February – August 2021
Katharina Grosse: Is It You? Thru September 21,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.artbma.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

Beautiful Bountiful Bowls, May 14 – June 26
Florida Craft Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.floridacraftart.org

Fresh Squeezed 5, April 10 – June 24
Morean Center for Art, St. Petersburg, FL, www.moreanartscenter.org

Place, May 1 – August 1
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

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

Sculpture National, April 9 – May 22
 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

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

FreeWheeling, May 11 – August 11
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC, www.thebascom.org

Desire Paths, thru May 29
FABRICated, March 26 – May 14
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, www.centerforcraft.org

Meeting the Moon, February 3 – July 26
Old World/New Soil, May 7 – August 2
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, www.ashevilleart.org

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

Susie Ganch, Different Land | Different Sea, April 13 – June 20
Ramen + Rice | the idiosyncratic bowl, April 28 – June 6
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, www.penland.org

Piece by Piece. Quilts from the Permanent Collection, opening January
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/

Tributaries: Andrew Meers | Amalgamation, April 10 – July 17
Measured Making: the 150 mm Challenge, March 27 – July 3
Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, www.metalmuseum.org

Charles Rennie Mackintosh & the Glasgow Style, June 11 – September 12
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, www.fristartmuseum.org

Artists-in-Residence Showcase, April 22 – June 6
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/

Joy O. Ude: 9JA Vision and
Contemporary Armor Making in Texas, June 5 – September 11
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 713-529-4848,
www.crafthouston.org

Ernesto Neto: Sun Force Ocean Life, May 30 – September 26
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

Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramists, opened January 20
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX, www.crowcollection.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

The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, & the Sonic Impulse
May 22 – September 6, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA,
www.vmfa.museum

Mindy Lam: Couture Gowns and Jewelry, May 14 – June 13
Eric Standley: The Lesson of Atticus, thru December 26
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, www.taubmanmuseum.org
midwest
Bisa Butler, Portraits, November 16 – September 6
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.artic.edu

Water Becomes Blood, May 27 – June 27
Boundaries, April 15 – May 16
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, www.womanmade.org

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

Recent Acquisitions, thru July 23
Art Nouveau: Danish Porcelain, January 19 – May 9
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA, www.museums.iastate.edu

Patter Fusion by Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, March 26 – June 1
Modern Quilt Guild, April 9 – July 27
Sew Many Quilts, 30th Anniversary, March 12 – June 8
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, www.quiltmuseum.org

Experience & Expression, January 31 – October 3
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, www.dia.org

Kelly & Lyke Phelps: Blue Collar, January 24 – July 31
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, www.pewabicpottery.org
 
John Miller: Blue Plate Special, April 10 – September 19
The Art of Jade, August 15 – May 23
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, www.flintarts.org
 
Breakfast. April 10 – August 28
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/

2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition, April 17 – May 16
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, www.cranbrookartmuseum.org

Nicole Havekost: Chthonic, thru June 26
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

American Pottery Festival Preview, May 4-30
Pearl: NCC 30th Anniversary, and
How It’s Going, NCC Alumni, April 30 – June 20
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 612-339-0592, www.northernclaycenter.org

Bound/Unbound, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, www.mnbookarts.org
 
L’Merchie Frazier: Freedom Rising, January 2 – September 19
Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, www.textilecentermn.org
 
Elements in Tapestry and Turned Wood, thru June 23
Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN, www.galleryofwoodart.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

Andrew Gilliatt: Digital Debut, May 7 – June 30
After Hours: Belger Arts Employee Exhibition, March 5 – June 5
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
 
Best of Ohio 2020/2021, opens May 10
Functional Ceramics, February 5 – April 17
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, www.ohiocraft.org
 
After Hours, April 29 – July 10
Athena Art Society, April 13 – May 13
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
 
Quilt National ’21, May 29 – September 9
Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, www.dairybarn.org
 
Forever Chanel/Coco + Karl, June 11 – February 27, 2022
Recent Acquisitions, March 24 – August 8
Stitched: Regional Dress across Europe, January 26 – December 19
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH, www2.kent.edu/museum/

Collection Gems, April 10 – July 3
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

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

The Bodice, April 24 – July 25
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, www.hmoa.org

Modern Menagerie, thru August 22
Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, June 12 – August 29
Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, www.lywam.org

Wisconsin Quilts, April 29 – August 29
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI, www.wiquiltmuseum.com

Roberto Torres Mata – Untethered: Our Journey beyond Borders, April 6 – May 14
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, www.chazen.wisc.edu

Dwight Tangren, and
Mending a Metaphor: What We Need is Here
, April 9 – May 22
The Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, www.ThePhipps.org

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
In Stitches: September 23 – May 8
The Art of the Cup, January 27 – August 7
Contemporary Teapots, August 7 – July 25, 2021
​Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, www.ramart.org
west
​Inupiaq Artist Ronald Sunungetuk, thru October 3
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

Cannupa Hanska Luger: Passage,
May 14 – August 8
Angel Cabrales: The Uncolonized, April 9 – August 8
Indigenous Americas, April 23 – August 8
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, www.mesaartscenter.org

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

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

Off Center, International Ceramic Competition, May 21 – July 3
Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA, www.bluelinearts.org

Elsa Rady: The Edge of Elegance,
March 21 – November 1
Cool Clay, thru July 31
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
Kira Dominguez Hultgren: Embroidering Exoticism, ongoing
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
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, www.sjmusart.org

Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners Guild, thru May 30
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA, www.beatricewood.com

Amy Santoferraro: Two on a Lot, Three on the Tree, May 8 – August 22
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
, May 2 – 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

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

Jackie Grimaldi: Every Stitch Counts, and
Barbara Yates Beasley: Walk on the Wild Side, April 19 – July 17
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, www.rmqm.org

Annual Pairings, May
Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, www.carbondaleclay.org

Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions, August 22 – July 4
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, www.boiseartmuseum.org

From Combat to Carpet: Afghan War Rugs, January 12 – September 21, 2021
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, www.internationalfolkart.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

Online Spring Sale, May 1-29
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

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

The Art of Being: Feeling, Memories, and Imagination, May 14 - September
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, www.museumofglass.org

Art of Recycling, April 1 – June 8
Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, www.schack.org

Inspired Settings, March 31 – July 4
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

Current Student Work, April 16 – May 26
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, www.woodschool.org

Women of Vision, April 17 – January 2, 2022
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

Pilgrim/Roy Collection, and
Quilts of Wendy Reed, March 3 – May 22
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 978-452-5407, www.nequiltmuseum.org

Peter Hutton: At Sea, thru July 6
Yoan Capote: Immanence, thru January 1, 2022
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, www.pem.org

Studs + Drops, March 26 – May 28
Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA, www.societyofcrafts.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
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 508-588-6000, www.fullercraft.org

Jackie deRuyter | Kate Nelson: Shape Shifters, April 22 – June 5
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, www.cahoommuseum.org

Four Quiltmakers, online
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, www.newarkmuseum.org

The Rugs of Ann Clarke, February 20 – June 27
Crossroads: Book Artists’ Impressioned Responses, and
Print, May 8 – September 5
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, www.hunterdonartmuseum.org

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

Making Matters, May 28 – August 27
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, www.petersvalley.org

Mark Chatterley I Am Still Here, May 1 – June 12
Schacht Gallery, Schuylerville, NY, www.saratogaclayarts.org

Postmodern & Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, November 7 – July 4
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

Martha Grover: Balanced Beauty, March 8 – April 12
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, www.clayartcenter.org

Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, April 28 – September 12
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

Jasmine Anokye: day/dreams, May 19 – July 2
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, www.urbanglass.org

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

Teapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection, May 21 – June 18
Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, www.greenwichhouse.org

Veiled Taxonomies, and
Interspecies Futures, April 16 – June 26
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

Carrie Meyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, and
Craft Front & Center, May 22 – February 13
The Fisher Dollhouse, May 8 – September 26
Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, October 24 – August 15
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/ 

Japan: A History of Style, March 8 – April 25, 2022
Fabergé, thru November 30
Art for the Community, Textiles, thru July 27
Shapes from out of Nowhere, ceramics of Robert A. Ellison jr. Collection, 
February 22 – August 29
Jewelry for America, ongoing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, www.metmuseum.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 

Lisa Karrer: Shelter, December 11 – June 27
Making Strange, February 12 – May 30
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. NY, www.burchfieldpenney.org 

Japanese Textiles in the West, thru May 23
Sleep Tight: Bed Coverings, May 16 – September 12
Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, November 1 – January 2, 2022
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, www.allentownartmuseum.org 

Tom Loeser: Please, Please, Please, February 12 – July 24
Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, www.centerforartinwood.org
 
Ryan Wilson Kelly: Anxious Assembly, April 3 – May 30
Joanna Powell, May 1 – June 13
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org 

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, November 20 – June 6
Hard/Cover, April 9 – September 20
Elizabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand, March 5 – August 15
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org 

Strength & Fragility: The Story of the NLM, opened March 26
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, www.libertymuseum.org 

Art Quilt Elements, online May 14 – July 19
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, www.wayneartcenter.org 

Light in Transmission, February 5 – July 18 
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org     

Humaira Abid: Searching for Home, April 9 – August 21
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 – July 17
Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th – 21st Century, thru September 30 
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, www.risdmuseum.org 

Peter Kirkiles: At Scale, June 2 – October 11
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, www.shelburnemuseum.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
 
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, December 7 – June 1, 2021
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, www.textilemuseum.ca
 
Dianne Lee & Robyn LeRoy-Evans: Heavy Shine, May 1 – August 29
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me, March 3 – May 29
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
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
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
Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, www.albertacraft.ab.ca

Gordon Sparks, Finding My Roots, May 15 – July 4
Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, NS, www.craft-design.ns.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
 
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
 
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

No Strings, thru September 21
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, www.nationalglasscentre.com

Archie Brennan: Tapestry Goes Pop, March 26 – June 26
Elaine Wilson: The Art of Being an Apprentice, March 3 – May 3
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  
                                                
The New Masquerades, online
Musée des Tissus, Lyon, France, www.museedestissus.fr
 
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – May 9
Robert Dawson & Richard Slee, June 18 – January 9, 2022
Tasses! June 18 – July 31, 2022
Uwe Wittwer, Aïko Watanabe, Jürg Halter, November 12 – May 23
Chrysanthèmes, Dragons, et Samouraïs, November 12 – January 9, 2022
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, www.institutions.ville-geneve.ch/ariana
 
Kiki van Eijk: Soon, Imagining, thru August 12, 2021
Common Threads, thru June 13, 2021
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, www.textielmuseum.nl
 
Kim Habers, thru September 5

Skin and Hair, thru October 31
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
 
From Buteh to Paisley, March 3 – July 28
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.nl
 
Peter Gustaf Dorén: Hamburg c. 1900, February 5 – May 30
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
 
#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
Borås Biennial, May 29 – September 26

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

Sadhiko Takahashi: Playtime, March 6 – June 22
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

Signatures: The Mark as an Embodiment of Identity and Intent, March 25 – May 15
Eloise Rapp: Gingham All You’ve Got, March 25 – May 13
Natalie Rosin: Endangered + Extinct, and

Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, May 20 – July 7
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com
 
Ceramica Maxima, May 1 – July 11
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au
 
Tom Moore, glass, March 20 – May 30
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au

Vision 2021/2022, thru June 2
Robes politiques, thru June 2, 2022
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 
 
Kim Habers, thru September 5
Skin and Hair, thru October 31
Human After All, October 10 – September 5
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, www.princessehof.nl 

More Organic, January 20 – September 19
Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Tegelen, Netherlands, www.tiendschuur.net 

Memphis Design, thru December 31
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, www.groningermuseum.nl 

Art on Display 1949-1969, thru June 6
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl  

From Buteh to Paisley, March 3 – July 28
Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, www.trc-leiden.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

BKV Preis 2021, thru May 15
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany, 
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de 

Margueritruten, April 30 - September 12
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
Borås Biennial, May 29 – September 26
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 

The Miracle of Milan, May 7 – October 17
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland, www.finnishglassmuseum.fi 

Sadhiko Takahashi: Playtime, March 6 – June 22
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 

Myall Creek and beyond, May 19 – July 9
School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra, Australia, www.soad.sass.anu.edu.au 

Natalie Rosin: Endangered + Extinct, and
Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, May 20 – July 7
Signatures: The Mark as an Embodiment of Identity and Intent, March 25 – May 15
Eloise Rapp: Gingham All You’ve Got, March 25 – May 13
Object, Sydney, Australia, www.australiandesigncentre.com 

 Margaret Lee: Enchanting Silk, June 3 – July 1
Toward Abstraction, May 1-30
Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Gallery, Concord West, Australia, www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au  

Ceramica Maxima, May 1 – July 11
Jam Factory Barossa, Seppeltsfield, Australia, www.jamfactory.com.au 

Tom Moore, glass, March 20 – May 30
Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide, Australia,
618 8410 0727, www.jamfactory.com.au ​
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