This year, the Center for Craft marks 30 years of advancing craft’s impact. From our beginnings, we have always connected scholarship about craft to its making and exhibition—understanding that what gets documented and studied shapes culture and inspires the next generation of makers.
Coined by 2026 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellow Alyssa Velazquez, the term 'craft-itarianism' names projects that generate employment, raise awareness, or offer therapeutic support through craft.
Craft has the capacity to connect us to each other, to ground us in a specific place, and to bridge generations across time. "Connections in the Making" features works by regional artists, craftspeople, and entrepreneurs that tell different stories about the ways craft connects us.
The Center for Craft is supported, in part, by generous funding from the following agencies and foundations. We are grateful for their shared belief that craft matters.
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