Contemporary crafts

The Craft Prize exhibition features meaningful works by its 30 finalists, on view from May 17 through June 18, 2023, at The Noguchi Museum in New York.

Shows at Lisson Gallery, New York, and the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan celebrate the fabric artist's seven-decade career.

Discover 10 contemporary textile artists inspired by nature that you HAVE to follow. This is ground breaking, innovative, inspirational art.

Kim Stanford

Bright, shiny pink sculpture made of 8 parts of powder-coated steel pieces, by Misha Milovanovich

North Carolina’s Leslie Pearson is a multimedia artist who utilizes fibre-based materials, processes and technique to create sculptures, installations, encaustic paintings and handmade books, exploring themes of memory and identity. She uses narrative therapy approaches like journaling, letter writing and story telling as a starting point to express lived and imagine experiences. Inspired by the natural world, Leslie uses pods, seeds, nests, eggs, shells and other organic materials in her…

Barry Stedman

When you’ve spent seven years as design director for a major Parisian fashion brand — in this case, Kenzo, the luxury house founded in 1970 by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada — where do you go from there? In Ben Mazey's case, the answer was: move back to the Antipodes, set up a ceramics studio, and fall in love with the creative process all over again. The New Zealand–born Mazey was on vacation in Australia when the pandemic hit; he took the opportunity to put down roots and began exploring…