Sophocles wrote "Antigone" almost 2,500 years ago, but the themes in the story are timeless. Nez Perce scholar and author Beth Piatote was inspired to write an Indigenous version of "Antigone," featur...

Spend enough time looking at contemporary craft and a pattern begins to appear. Glassmakers, ceramicists, textile artists, paper sculptors, beadworkers, and woodcarvers often arrive at the same subject: flowers. Henri Purnell builds delicate blossoms from thousands of glass beads. Julia Oleynik shapes flowers petal by petal in clay. Lilla Tabasso recreates blooms in glass, while Ann Wood, Judith Rolfe, and Sourabh Gupta turn sheets of paper into stems, leaves, and petals. In Japan, Yoshihiro Suda carves flowers and weeds from wood with remarkable precision. Contemporary craft is constantly evolving, embracing new technologies, materials, and processes. Yet one of its most persistent subjects remains a familiar one. Flowers continue to offer makers a problem worth solving. Unlike geometric forms, flowers rarely follow predictable rules. Petals fold, curl, overlap, and wrinkle, colors shift across a single bloom, and no two specimens are entirely alike. For makers working with rigid, manufactured materials, recreating that complexity requires a series of translations. Whether assembled bead by bead, stitched thread by thread, or carved from a single block of wood, flowers provide a common point of departure for makers interested in exploring what their materials can do. PRIMAVERA detail | image by Roberto Marossi via @lilla.tabasso...

This season’s lineups at the two locations include quillworkers, ledger artists, poets, metal workers, historians, musicians, dancers and beadworkers.

This season’s lineups at the two locations include quillworkers, ledger artists, poets, metal workers, historians, musicians, dancers and beadworkers.

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The Beadworkers — Piatote, Beth H., 1966- — "Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the ...