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2026 John and Barbara Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement

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  • Craft Ontario at 50: A New Home for Our Next Chapter

    Craft Ontario at 50: A New Home for Our Next Chapter

    As Craft Ontario turns 50 this year, we are marking the milestone with a move that sets up our next chapter: a new home at 401 Richmond Street West, opening August 2027! This transition is, in many ways, a living expression of the theme of Resilience in Craft. We are entering our next 50 years with clearer focus, and with honest work still ahead.

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  • Featured Artist: Seden Lai

    Featured Artist: Seden Lai

    April 25 - May 31, 2026

    Cycles, as an intuitive emergence within natural ecosystems, has been a guiding presence in Seden Lai's paper practice. Flora, from bloom to decay and in their dialogue with the world, is a wonderful example of cyclical returns. Her works grasp toward this same approach to visual rhythm via craft processes using iteration and repetitive gestures like folding, pleating, and hammering. 

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  • Forming a New Era of the Tar

    Forming a New Era of the Tar

    Over the past decade, professional luthier and woodworker Mohammad Taheri has developed a new technique for crafting the structure of the tar and setar, innovating their sound and marking an entirely new era for Iranian music. 

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  • Featured Artist: Sandra Tarantino

    Featured Artist: Sandra Tarantino

    March 14 - April 19, 2026

    Whether goldfinch or hummingbirds, Sandra's hand-sculpted ceramics uses the metaphor of human experience, sentimentality, and connectivity to our natural environments.

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  • Featured Artist: Jaxx Bonnamie

    Featured Artist: Jaxx Bonnamie

    January 31 – March 8, 2026

    Combining his love of illustration with ceramic through sgraffito, while portraying themes of identity and otherness, Jaxx Bonnamie creates striking sculpture that are sure to spark conversation.

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  • Studio 20.2: Noise

    Studio 20.2: Noise

    This year brought a lot of changes — in connections, new opportunities, and a different way of seeing the world — and this in turn shifted our perspective in writing about craft. At Studio we are a small but mighty...

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  • Jewellery Showcase: Priscilla Kar Yee Lo

    Jewellery Showcase: Priscilla Kar Yee Lo

    September 13 – November 2, 2025

    Priscilla’s  jewellery collection highlights the paradox of glass, a material that can appear fragile yet convincingly imitate metal, ceramic, and other substances. Each flameworked piece combines refined form, engraved surfaces, and...

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