Craft Archives — Colossal

two framed embroideries with images of fried fish and a beer along with a grocery store sign and a marquee reading "ice cream cons pizza slice"

Adrienna Matzeg’s Punch Needle Embroideries Conjure Nostalgic Summer Road Trips

February 19, 2025

a ceramic mask with the face of a young girl with brown hair, with a dead red bird on her nose

Lena Guberman’s Emotive Sculptures Call Upon Childhood Social Anxiety

February 12, 2025

a porcelain sculpture that resembles a bundle of textile with frills, with bright green grass-like spikes or fronds emerging from it

Joan Clare Brown Juxtaposes Anatomy and Memories in Poignant Porcelain Sculptures

February 11, 2025

detail of a an abstract, bright weaving radiating fiber in other colors into a puffy form, with long fibers gathered and draping long at the bottom

Signe Emdal’s Chromatic Weavings Manifest Wonder and Joy

February 10, 2025

a detail fo a colorful abstract embroidery on blue fabric

Order and Chaos Entwine in Abstract Embroideries by Kristine Stattin

February 5, 2025

the side of an old stone barn clad in tiny wooden shingles in an undulating pattern

Wycliffe Stutchbury Configures Miniature Wood Shingles into Mesmerizing Arrangements

February 5, 2025

a small paper tunnel book depicting large mushrooms and a figure hiking through a landscape

Imaginative Scenes Vibrantly Expand in Shelley Aldrich’s Illustrated Tunnel Books

February 4, 2025

three slices of vibrantly painted ceramic pie slices with overflowing filling

Naomi Peterson Channels a Sweet Tooth and Sense of Togetherness in Her Vibrant ‘Cup-Cakes’

February 4, 2025

vibrant textured fibers woven in the style of passementerie while incorporating geometric, curving forms

Michelle Robinson’s Passementerie Weavings Demonstrate Elaborate Detail and Design

January 28, 2025

Deniz Kurdak Crafts Fragility and Resilience in Embroidered Depictions of Porcelain

January 27, 2025

a botanical sculpture made from glass, wood, and ceramics

Matias Karsikas Merges Diverse Techniques to Reimagine Natural Surfaces

January 22, 2025

a ceramic sculpture with honeycomb swelling around it particularly toward the left side

At Ceramic Brussels, an Eclectic Array of Works Offers a State of the Medium

January 16, 2025

a mug and paper airplane sculpture that appear to made of lined paper atop white notepad

Paper or Porcelain? Saori Matsushita Folds Delicate Ceramic into Playful Objects

January 14, 2025

a trio of vibrant embroidered sculptural flowers on wood oval panels

Nosheen Iqbal Translates Pakistani Craft Traditions into Vivid Sculptural Embroideries

January 13, 2025

a realistic relief textile work of a dog lounging on a tiled floor, made via rug hooking

Lifelike Canines Lounge in Emily O’Leary Uncanny Hooked Rugs

January 13, 2025

a hand holds up a collection of small, vibrant collages, each shaped like a stamp. they depict scenes with a building, water, architecture, and patterned designs

Vibrant Morsels of Paper Come Together in Laura K. Sayers’ Stamp Collection

January 8, 2025