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Updated: 06/27/2024

Woodcraft Supply Corp. Woodworking Demonstrations and Seminars
Woodworking demonstrations and seminars are scheduled to take place at many retail locations nationwide. The sessions — ranging from beginner to intermediate to advanced-level classes — will be held on dozens of topics, including woodcarving, whittling, furniture making, scroll sawing, and tool sharpening. For a schedule of offerings in your area, visit www.woodcraft.com and click on the Education link at the top of the page.

Call for Entries

CraftForms 2024
Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Ave., Wayne, PA, is seeking submissions for the 29th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, in the following mediums: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood. Exhibition and Sales: December 7, 2024 – January 25, 2024. Submissions due before Sept 10, 2024. For more info go here: Enter Now

Small Woodworks: Exploring Function, Form and Fantasy in Wood
Timber Tales invites artists, designers, and creators to submit works of art made of wood that represent a range of personal expressions and points of view. Successful submissions will celebrate the rich narrative of this ancient, organic material through a modern lens.  Makers are encouraged to explore wood’s potential as a small-scale functional object as well as a vehicle for personal narratives, fantasy, folklore, or perhaps a meditation on the medium itself, its role in sustainability, and its effect on climate change.  Artists are encouraged to interpret this call for entry using wood as a primary medium, using woodworking and sculptural techniques, and including secondary media as needed. Presented by Society of Arts & Crafts. Deadline September 1, 2024. For more info go here: Call For Entry

 

Virtual

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

7/27/24 – 1/5/25, Fresno
Wendy Maruyama: A Sculptural Survey
American sculptor Wendy Maruyama has been chosen by the Fresno Art Museum’s auxiliary member group, The Council of 100, as their Distinguished Woman Artist for 2024. Based in San Diego, CA, Maruyama is recognized nationally and internationally for her master work in wood furniture and wildlife portraits and for her social commentary. This exhibition is an overview of her work over the years.
Fresno Art Museum
2233 North First Street
Website: www.fresnoartmuseum.org

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Ongoing, Winterthur
With Hammer in Hand: A Story of  American Craft
The updated Dominy Gallery of hand tools, furniture, clocks, business records, and family papers reopened March 2021. It reveals a fascinating window into skilled craftwork, trade, and material life in the racially diverse community of East Hampton, Long Island, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
5105 Kennett Pike
Phone: 800-448-3883 or 302-888-4907
Website: www.winterthur.org

Florida

Ongoing, Winter Park
American Arts and Crafts
Works in this gallery, all selected from the Morse collection, illustrate the simple beauty of the objects created by American art potteries, furniture makers, metalworkers, and others who took up the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
445 North Park Avenue
Website: www.morsemuseum.org

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

4/26/24 – 5/29/24, Rockport
Current Student Work
The exhibition features furniture and furnishings by students in the school’s flagship Nine-month Comprehensive course. Current Comprehensive participants range in age from 18-71, coming from backgrounds in ministry, design, carpentry, education, cabinet making, entrepreneurship, and steelwork.
Messler Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
25 Mill Street
Phone: 207-594-5611
Website: www.woodschool.org

Maryland

Massachusetts

5/3/24 – 6/1/24, Boston
Judy Kensley McKie: Carving the Surface
Exhibition accompanied by an essay by Michelle Millar Fisher
Gallery NAGA
67 Newberry St
Website: www.gallerynaga.com

5/3/24 – 8/10/24, Boston
2024 Exhibition: Then & Now
The exhibition highlights the growth of the North Bennet Street School students and alumni as craftspeople and their journeys before and after NBSS. It includes the work of over 50 students in the areas of bookbinding, furniture making, carpentry, jewelry making, violin making.
North Bennet Street School
150 North Street
Website: www.nbss.edu

Michigan

Minnesota

Ongoing, Saint Paul
Touch This!
A family-friendly exhibition introduces how woodturning works, and offers samples of wood to heft, sniff, and admire. Also see a history of turning, and vintage and reproduction lathes from the Viking era to the late 1700s.
Around the Hus
Turned objects from everyday Scandinavian domestic life up to the 1900s.
Gallery of Wood Art
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St W
Phone: 651-484-9094
Website: www.galleryofwoodart.org

6/8/24 – 6/9/24, St. Paul
American Craft Festival
Explore regional craft culture and engage with hands-on activities at this free, all-ages event.
Union Depot
214 4th Street East
Website: www.craftcouncil.org/CraftFest

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Ongoing, Cody
By Western Hands
Member gallery and museum showing works of furniture, hand-carved wood, tooled leather and bone, beaded textiles, antler, silver, and iron (to name just a few).
1007 12th Street
Phone: 307-586-1755
Website: www.bywesternhands.org

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

5/18/24 – 8/4/24, Layton
Making Matters: Fresh Perspectives in Fine Craft
An annual exhibition showcasing the work of the season’s visiting artist instructors and summer artistic staff. The variety of media, styles and techniques included reflect the diversity in the programming offered at Peters Valley.
Peters Valley School of Craft
19 Kuhn Road
Website: www.petersvalley.org

New Mexico

New York

now  – 9/22/24, New York City
Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940 – 1980
This exhibition presents sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of home environments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela between 1940 and 1980. The exhibition includes furniture, appliances, posters, textiles, and ceramics, as well as a selection of photographs and paintings.
MOMA
11 West 53 Street
Website: www.moma.org

5/3/24 – 5/5/24, Tarrytown
Spring Crafts at Lyndhurst
This event promises a weekend filled with artistic inspiration, delicious food, and family-friendly activities. A bustling marketplace featuring an array of handcrafted treasures: from intricately designed jewelry to stunning ceramics, textiles, woodwork, and beyond, there will be something to captivate every taste and preference.
635 S. Broadway
Website: www.artrider.com

6/8/24 – 6/9/24, Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck Crafts Festival
Thousands of unique handmade items from 175 makers you can’t find anywhere else in upstate New York. Original fashions, accessories, jewelry, home décor, furniture, photography and fine art; as well as functional and sculptural works in ceramics, glass, metal, wood, mixed media and more – all handmade and all uncommon!
Dutchess County Fairgrounds
6636 Spring Brook Avenue (Route 9)
Website: www.artrider.com

North Carolina

11/17/23 – 7/13/24, Asheville
Hammer and Hope
An exhibition that celebrates the life and labor of Black chairmakers in early America. Featuring the work of two contemporary furniture makers – Robell Awake and Charlie Ryland.
Center for Craft
67 Broadway St
Website: www.centerforcraft.org/exhibition/hammer-and-hope

2/29/24 – 5/4/24, Asheville
Tommy Simpson: Celebrating 65 Years of Making
This solo exhibit is a tribute to his prolific sixty-five-year career, encapsulating his creative evolution and mastery across diverse mediums such as woodworking, painting, printmaking, clay, rug design, and prose.
Momentum Gallery
52 Broadway
Website: www.momentumgallery.com

3/1/24 – 4/24/24, Asheville
W.O.W. Wood Invitational
This international wood exhibition features the works of over twenty contemporary world-class wood artists. The featured works are created from common or exotic species and are either turned, carved, sanded, or inlaid using a variety of tools and techniques. As the mnemonic implies, W.O.W is meant to impress.
Blue Spiral 1
38 Biltmore Ave
Website: www.bluespiral1.com

3/23/24 – 5/11/24, Winston-Salem
Seating Assignment: Women in Contemporary Chairmaking and Craft Education
An exhibition featuring 15 contemporary women artists who specialize in furniture making and view education as a core component of their practice.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art
Eleanor and Egbert Davis Gallery
251 N. Spruce St.
Website: www.sawtooth.org

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

5/23/24 – 5/26/24, Portland
AAW’s 38th International Woodturning Symposium
Presented by the American Association of Woodturners, this event includes demonstrations, instant gallery, special exhibitions, and a tradeshow.
Oregon Convention Center
Website: www.aawsymposium.org

Pennsylvania

2/9/24 – 9/15/24, Philadelphia
Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni
Phil Brown was a devoted woodturner and a community organizer and board member of the Center for Art in Wood. When he passed away in July 2018 he left hundreds of partially turned bowls and blocks in his workshop that he wished to see realized into completed art pieces. This exhibition is a collaboration between Brown and the artists he enjoyed hosting each year during the ITE (now the  Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood). The show also includes some works by Brown from the museum’s permanent collection.
Museum for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.museumforartinwood.org

3/1/24 – 7/21/24, Philadelphia
Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree
A multi-disciplinary project that focuses on the dignity of a living tree, its network of eco-systemic relationships, and the ubiquity of the material of wood in design and daily life. The exhibition is comprised of an immersive video installation, functional and sculptural greenwood chairs made from trees killed by invasive insects or storms, and site artifacts that emerged through direct engagement with tree and the surrounding ecosystem.
Museum for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street
Website: www.museumforartinwood.org

6/13/24 – 9/8/24, Malvern
Rhythms: 30th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition
Often defined as a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound, the idea of rhythm has extended across Wharton Esherick’s career, taking on multiple meanings. Twenty-five artists explore this idea materially and conceptually, offering insight into the cadence of their practice and their creative aspirations. They invite us to ponder the rhythms at play in our own lives, the patterns that shape who we are, and how effectively wood can engage this expansive idea.
Wharton Esherick Museum
1520 Horseshoe Trail
Website: www.whartonesherickmuseum.org

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

6/24/2021 – ??, Williamsburg
A Gift to the Nation
The Joseph and June Hennage Collection, highlights the focused collecting of the late Joe and June Hennage, who strove to acquire great examples of furniture and silver from important colonial centers including Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, and the Connecticut River Valley.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Colonial Williamsburg
Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

Washington

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Wyoming

International

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

New Zealand

Russia

United Kingdom