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Contemporary Craft Announces Expansion with Purchase of Second Building

Contemporary Craft Announces Keiko Fukazawa Retrospective: The Space in Between

Contemporary Craft Announces 2nd Annual Weave-a-Thon

Contemporary Craft Announces Open Call for 2025 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize

Contemporary Craft Announces Raphael Endowment

芸[Gei] : The Beauty of Ephemeral and Eternal Opens at Contemporary Craft

Contemporary Craft & Sibyls Shrine Partner for Residency Program

Contemporary Craft Explores Themes of Grief in New Exhibition

Contemporary Craft Announces Out of Hand: The Archive Edition

Contemporary Craft Purchases House for National Artist Residency Program

Brie Ruais Solo Exhibition Announced at Contemporary Craft

Contemporary Craft Announces Open Call for National Artist Residency Program

Contemporary Craft Announces 12-Hour Weave-a-Thon

Contemporary Craft Hosts Climate Change Forum

Contemporary Craft Explores Climate Change in New Exhibition

Contemporary Craft Announces National Residency Program

Transformation 11: Contemporary Works in Glass Opens at Contemporary Craft

Contemporary Craft Launches Podcast – Sounds from the Studio

Shannon Downey of Badass Cross Stitch Comes to Contemporary Craft

Contemporary Craft Announces POP! Perspectives on Polymer –  A Five Day Celebration of Contemporary Works in Polymer Clay

Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize Finalists Announced at Contemporary Craft

Contemporary Craft Announces Retirement of Longtime Director of Exhibitions & 2022 LEAP Winners

Patty Kennedy-Zafred’s solo exhibition, American Portraits: The Family Farm, at Contemporary Craft

Community Kitchen Pittsburgh to Sell Artist-Made Prep Bowls at Bowls and Boards Open House

Prepping Pittsburgh: A Social Justice Project Utilizing Art to Create Positive Change in the Community

Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art Press Kit

Art Builds Community and Promotes Healing through Socially engaged Community Dialogues

Rachel Saul Rearick Named New Executive Director at Contemporary Craft

Long-Time Leader of Contemporary Craft Janet McCall to Retire in June

Acclaimed Swoon Exhibition Extended at Contemporary Craft’s New Lawrenceville Location

Contemporary Craft Sets Opening Date | New Building Fact Sheet

Contemporary Craft thinks creatively to provide internship virtually during the Pandemic | 2020 Cheteyan Scholarship

The Heart Lives through The Hands | Swoon

ReNew | Louise Silk

Crafting Conversation:A Call and Response to Our Changing Climate through Art


2019

Contemporary Craft/Construction Junction Partnership Program

Contemporary Craft’s New Home in Upper Lawrenceville | Building Plan

Fiberart International 2019 closing and The Space Between on August 24, 2019

Elemental Fiber | Kathy Nida

Fiberart International 2019 | Supplement Materials | Image Sample

Pathways | Sharon Massey


2018

Contemporary Craft Receives American Craft Council Award of Distinction

Handwork | Kim Fox

Transformation 10: Contemporary Works in Found Materials Media Alert | Press Release


2017

Tangled Truths

Quadrennial: Four Years of Spectacular Buckles from the U.S. and Abroad

Visual Voices: Truth Narratives | Supplement Materials

Storyteller

The Space Between Speaker Series: Justin Strong and Aaron Regal

Doretha Murray – 2017/2018 Emerging Black Arts Leaders Apprentice

The Space Between Speaker Series: Gisele Fetterman and Douglas Heuck

Vantage Point

Exhibition in Print: Repair and Renewal

Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home media kit | Information Kit

The Space Between Speaker Series: Njaimeh Njie and Corey Carrington

2017 Summer Artist-in-Residence: Ryder Henry

Parts, Patterns, and Pieces

Oaths and Epithets: Works by Sonya Clark


2016

The Space Between Speaker Series

Edward Eberle Retrospective

Corey Carrington – 2016/2017 Emerging Black Arts Leaders Apprentice

Carin Mincemoyer: Aqua Icons and Arboreal Geometric

2016 Summer Artist-in-Residence & Cheteyan Scholar: Christian Morris

Fiberart International 2016

LEAP 2016

Emerging Black Arts Leaders Apprenticeship

Pattern and Place: Art Quilts by Valerie Goodwin

The Invisible One


2015

Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art

A Very Long Engagement

Bridge 13 Exhibition Series

Bridge 13: Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor

Bridge 13: Jason Walker

Bridge 13: Keith Lo Bue

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