Esther Elia ✿ An Assyrian Prayer Bowl-Our December laurel is awarded to an Assyrian living in the USA who makes prayer bowls with messages of cultural resilience.
The Mashrabiya Project: Life behind the screen-We speak with Jennifer-Navva Milliken about a project at her Museum of Art and Wood that responds to the ubiquitous lattice screen of the Islamic world.
Sarah Khan ✿ Spoons as weapons of mass creation-Our September laurel Sarah K Khan, inspired by a sixteenth-century Indian Cookbook in Persian, decorates her spoons in honor of women’s knowledge.
You Stir the Pot: Recipes for change-Victoria Manganiello tells us about a social change project that invites artists to apply their creativity to making recipes for a better world.
A Kolam for Washington DC-Shanthi Chandrasekar tracks the memories of Kolam adornment rituals that now inspire a homage to the US Vice-President.
25 Million Stitches: Threading the misplaced multitude-Doug Kim presents a global collaborative project by Jennifer Kim Sohn that seeks to measure the massive human displacement around the world with a collective tapestry.
JD Harrison ✿ Centerpiece for a crafted future-The reopening of Asheville's Center for Craft features a National Craft Innovation Hub, whose centrepiece is a table by Appalachian architect JD Harrison.
Presha’s Coverlet-Jeffrey Keith considers the bedcover made by his great-great-grandmother as a memoir and describes how its threads bind him to the southern mountains she called home.
Dancing with the anvil-Michael Winkler is impressed by the resilience in the USA, emboded in those who continue to work with iron.
Grunge and graffiti repair-In the exhibition Expressive Repair, Lela Kulkarni finds Miron Kiselev, who helps translate graffiti to textiles.
Tying down art in my own public Idaho-Lily Martina Lee is inspired by the regional variations across the mid-West in the way folks secure their load.
Katie Miller ✿ Seattle lightscapes-Melissa Cameron tracks Katie Miller's progress from the barns of Nebraska to a Seattle filled with the light of the Pacific North-West.
Catharine Ellis and the journey of True Colors-We feature weld-dyer Catharine Ellis, from the book True Colors, by Keith Recker who reflects on the principles that underlie his life in colour, thus far.
Melissa Cameron ✿ Jewellery at our feet-The use of found materials can focus our minds on the world at our feet. Melissa Cameron's new work, Marfa TX, turns this moment into singular jewellery.
Kukuli Velarde ✿ A mi vida-Our August laurel goes to Peruvian-born ceramic artist Kukuli Velarde for her poignant effigy, A mi vida. This object reflects the culture of her birth, her maternal love and concern for child victims of anti-immigrant campaigns.
What we can learn from Zapotec culture-Garland in Oaxaca was a chance for us to learn more about the Zapotec values that underlined their mesmerising crafts, and particularly its place in the world today.
Cutting knowledge at Harvard-It's interesting to see Harvard University initiate this project on the craft basis of knowledge. This video offers a preview of "cutting" as a way of understanding how we make a world, deconstructing our philosophical concepts into material processes.
A clay voyage across the Pacific—Omnus Terra-While there is talk of building higher walls on the US border, Shannon Garson has found a way of creating exchange across the water, using ceramics.
Nature craft-The traditional story of craft as an art of civilisation involves controlling nature. Fibre is spun, wood is carved, metal is cast, glass is blown and clay is thrown. Making seems to involve an improvement in the otherwise formless quality of materials found in the environment. Natural substances are mastered in order to manipulate them into forms of useful beauty.
A Korean Sensibility: Something to Prove-Tony Marsh reflects on the ways Korean ceramics students have developed in response to the stimulus of Long Beach, California