Arts & Crafts Exhibits

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Light and Movement

Light and Movement

08-17-2025 8:00 pm - 09-06-2025 11:00 pm
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Works by Marianne R. Williamson

 

“Life is always changing in one way or another, and the world around me is always moving, swaying in the breeze, or changed by light.” -- Marianne R. Williamson

Light and movement have been recurring themes in Williamson’s work for nearly 45 years since she embraced textiles as her artistic medium. A classical education in art from L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland provided a solid foundation for the painterly qualities of her distinctive scenes of sunlit gardens, windswept landscapes, ripples on water and ocean waves.

 

Pat Pauly, Unfolding Years

Pat Pauly, Unfolding Years

08-18-2025 8:00 pm - 09-20-2025 11:00 pm
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The NEQM is pleased to feature works by Pat Pauly, whose fiber art exudes a graphic, color-saturated palette using her own hand printed fabric. Featured in major exhibitions and found internationally in public and private collections, Pauly’s work is distinctive for its strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. With a degree in art and graduate studies in design and fine art, Pauly embraced fiber art as her medium in the early 1980s “as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking.” 

It’s Not Easy Getting Green

It’s Not Easy Getting Green

08-19-2025 8:00 pm - 09-20-2025 11:00 pm
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The quilts exhibited in the Nancy Donahue Gallery range in age from the early 1800s to the 1970s.

This selection demonstrates the remarkable evolution of textile dying techniques used to create the color green--Quercitron was extracted from the bark of the North American Black Oak tree; two-step or overdyed processing involved the use of multiple colors like yellow and blue; and synthetic dyes introduced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century have taken many decades to perfect. For a color so closely associated with the natural world, green has been a notoriously challenging, and often poisonous, color to manufacture.

Summer Celebration of New England Quilts

Summer Celebration of New England Quilts

08-19-2025 8:00 pm - 09-06-2025 11:00 pm
 

During this community event, admission to the NEQM is voluntary.

Summer Celebration of New England Quilts showcases works from the many dynamic quilt guilds located in the New England region. Every two years, the Supporting Guilds of the NEQM are tasked with selecting an exceptional quilt made by one or more of their members to display in the galleries. In hosting this exhibition, the NEQM celebrates many skillful, but lesser-known, quiltmakers and recognizes the important role of quilt guilds in advancing the art. 

Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene

Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene

08-21-2025 8:00 pm - 09-21-2025 11:00 pm
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Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene brings together contemporary artworks created from previously existent materials to reimagine craft in the shadow of the twenty-first century. Utilizing second-hand discards or industrially manufactured materials, artists transform refuse into highly crafted forms. Exhibited objects speak to the unique and impending challenges of the current age, simultaneously blurring the distinctions between industrially made commodities and the traditional realm of handcraft. Together, the works reveal how artists are employing craft techniques and knowledge to reimagine the role of the artist in the twenty-first century—and how reuse is just one facet of a desperately needed response to our current era.
Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene

Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene

08-21-2025 8:00 pm - 09-21-2025 11:00 pm
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Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene brings together contemporary artworks created from previously existent materials to reimagine craft in the shadow of the twenty-first century. Utilizing second-hand discards or industrially manufactured materials, artists transform refuse into highly crafted forms. Exhibited objects speak to the unique and impending challenges of the current age, simultaneously blurring the distinctions between industrially made commodities and the traditional realm of handcraft. Together, the works reveal how artists are employing craft techniques and knowledge to reimagine the role of the artist in the twenty-first century—and how reuse is just one facet of a desperately needed response to our current era.

Soul of a Nation: Voices of Resilience in Ukrainian Folk Art

Soul of a Nation: Voices of Resilience in Ukrainian Folk Art

08-22-2025 8:00 pm - 11-02-2025 11:00 pm
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Fuller Craft Museum proudly presents Soul of a Nation: Voices of Resilience in Ukrainian Folk Art, a multimedia exhibition celebrating Ukraine’s rich artistic heritage and enduring creative spirit. Highlighting the profound role of traditional crafts as acts of resistance and cultural preservation, the exhibition features Zaporizhzhya embroidered textiles, hand-painted pysanka (Easter eggs), Crimean-Tatar ceramics, Hutsul wood art, and Petrykivka painting. Through vivid colors, floral motifs, geometric patterns, and multiple media on view, visitors will witness the resilience and creativity that define Ukraine’s enduring cultural identity.

A Shared Legacy: Gifts from the Robyn and John Horn Collection

A Shared Legacy: Gifts from the Robyn and John Horn Collection

08-22-2025 8:00 pm - 05-03-2026 11:00 pm
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The exhibition A Shared Legacy: Gifts from the Robyn and John Horn Collection celebrates a transformative donation to Fuller Craft Museum’s permanent collection by collectors Robyn and John Horn. The important gift of 32 objects includes many significant examples of American craft by prominent artists such as Stephen De Staebler, Hoss Haley, Robyn Horn, Mary Giles, Harvey Littleton, Albert Paley, and more. Many craft media are represented in the grouping, including wood, metals, ceramic, basketry, glass, and stone.

Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling

Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling

08-22-2025 8:00 pm - 10-12-2025 11:00 pm
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Fuller Craft Museum is the recent recipient of stellar examples of enamel arts, gifted from the Enamel Arts Foundation Collection as part of their national initiative to increase access to this extraordinary genre of contemporary craft. These acquisitions represent a broad range of artistic interests, subjects, and techniques. The selection, currently on view, includes wearable forms, three-dimensional objects, and wall-mounted plaques and panels, allowing audiences an overview of enameling along with insight into the various forms artists have used in their exploration of this medium.

Small Wonders includes work by some of the leading figures in late 20th-century American enameling such as June Schwarcz, Harold B. Helwig, Joseph Trippetti, Barbara Minor, Kate Berl, and Sarah Perkins. The exhibition will also display works from emerging leaders in the field, namely Martha Banyas, Jessica Calderwood, and Zachery Lechtenberg. What’s more, the inclusion of New England artists Lilyan Bachrach, Marion Lang, Rick McMullen, and Barbara Seidenath engages artists living and working in the region.