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Textile

Taking Action
16 Jan 19
Using locally produced materials
Design by Moxie
16 Jan 19
Chelna Desai is a Force of Nature
Conjoined
Little Girls
09 Jan 19
Kachina Leigh’s ghostly dresses
Birch Trees Tea Set. A small grove of slender paper birches – a teapot and two cups. Detail shows the tree rings in the pot's base Teapot 11 x 6 x 3”
Setting Goals
09 Jan 19
Creating a niche with thread sculptures
Entrance view of “Inheritance: makers. memory. myth,” at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, featuring the suspended piece “Confection,” made from vintage crocheted doilies, acrylic and polyurethane. Summer 2018. Photography by Brian Adams.
The Final Inheritor
09 Jan 19
Creating memories and myths
‘Fluid’ Knit Sweater Model: Stephanie Wolf Photo: Jeff Frey
Body and Soul
19 Dec 18
Exploring identity with upcycled fabric
After Hours
19 Dec 18
Transformation via cross-stitch embroidery
The Princely Dragon. He believes “treat others as you like to be treated.” The children of his kingdom are well dressed and happy.
World of Possibilities
05 Dec 18
Janet Brandt’s Little Boxes
The Blue
05 Dec 18
Chasing after a coveted pigment
Posiedon's garden (detail)
Paying Attention
05 Dec 18
Getting immersed in color
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Artifact

Handcrafted Celebration
16 Jan 19
Earthy joy meets elegant vision
Carving a Living
16 Jan 19
Providing jobs for wood carvers and creating a sustainable timber practice
Basin Theology/Pentedrone (detail), 2014 Ceramic 39 × 46 1/2 × 44 1/4 in. (99.1 × 118.1 × 112.4 cm) Photo by Jenna Bascom; courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design
Monument Material
09 Jan 19
Sterling Ruby’s provocative ceramics
Dustin Farnsworth, styx/vodun, 2016, poplar, flowers and various polychrome. Collection of the artist.
Disrupting Craft
19 Dec 18
Responding to the political and social landscapes through art
Disenchanted Alice
19 Dec 18
Contemporary Alice in the Big Apple’s wonderland
David R. Harper, Canada Encyclopedia of the Familiar, 2015 Polyurethane, cow hide, linen, cotton embroidery floss, steel, synthetic hair, horse hair, epoxy clay, enamel 192 × 82 × 12 in. (487.7 × 208.3 × 30.5 cm) Photo: Jeffrey Machtig, courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
MAD Collects
11 Oct 18
The Future of Craft, Parts 1-2
Infinite Possibilities. Each Cube 3.5”x3.5”x3.5” - 30 Cubes. Mixed Media. 2015
Conversation Pieces
11 Oct 18
Chicago’s landscape influences fiber sculptures
Woven Spirituality
30 Aug 18
Contemporary tapestries inspired spiritual themes
Lives Transformed
30 Aug 18
Turning plain clay into coveted art
Refugee Aspirations
08 Aug 18
Weaving Hope Amid a Refugee Crisis
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Culture

Passage to India
27 Sep 18
A Textile Story in Three Parts
Detail from the installation at the Museum at FIT, with embroidery by Dabbous .
Collages of Cultures
06 Jun 18
Art that Inspires
Revitalizing Mapuche Craft
07 Feb 18
Connecting values and culture
Of A Temporary Nature
18 Oct 17
Visual Poetry
Holy Roman Empire Intarsia Quilt Artist unidentified Prussia or Austria 1846–1851 Wool, with embroidery thread; intarsia; hand-appliquéd and hand-embroidered 101 1/2 x 101 1/2" Collection International Quilt Study Center & Museum University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
War and Pieced
22 Sep 17
Quilts from military fabrics
African Scandinavian Fusion
09 Mar 17
BYHAND AFRICAN ARTISANS bring Danish simplicity to African craft
Breaking Stereotype
25 Jan 17
Investing in Kenyan Women and Ingenuity
Colombian Composure
19 Jan 17
Fe Handbag’s Intertribal Collaborations
Life Changers
16 Nov 16
Art Creation Foundation for Children
A Natural Extension
10 Aug 16
No-Mad’s local and international home decor
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Place

Heidi by the window of Mustafa’s workshop.
Diamonds to chickens
07 Apr 16
Cultural exchange in Morocco
Sortng and smoothing dyed paper.
Tragedy at the Top of the World
06 May 15
Nepali Artisans’ Lives Crumble
Green Windows.
Etched in Time
22 Apr 15
A wood carver’s duty
Embrace and Develop
19 Dec 13
Empowering Cape Town’s HIV/AIDS community via craft
A Place of Hope
06 Nov 13
Kageno forges bonds with designers that stretch worldwide
Local Icons
11 Sep 13
Santa Fe’s pantheon of multicultural saints
The Wayra Way
14 Aug 13
Crocheting and Knitting from Peruvian Mining Towns
Hard-Earned Recognition
12 Aug 13
Caribbean Craft's artisan business
The Future of Craft?
17 Jul 13
Linking tradition with art and design
Art from the Periphery
05 Jun 13
Touring Turkey’s Baksı Museum
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