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Silver & Gold
These precious metals have been part of the lexicon of jewelers since humans mastered blacksmithing, thousands of years ago.
RAPHAEL SANZIO PENDANT
by Roberta and David Williamson.
Features and Departments

Smithsonian Craft Show 2025 Volume 45.4
Patrick R. Benesh-Liu takes a different look at the Smithsonian Craft Show for 2025, as he brings this year’s Visionary Award winner, Nick Cave, to reveal how craft and art can communicate in our most difficult moments as human beings.

Smithsonian Craft Show 2024
Patrick R. Benesh-Liu brings readers on a tour of the Smithsonian Craft Show, and delves into the people whose volunteered time makes the show possible.

Smithsonian Craft Show 2023 Volume 43.4
Patrick R. Benesh-Liu reminisces on this year’s Smithsonian Craft Show, which made a triumphant return in-person in 2022.
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Best of
Wearable Artists
As the 60s and 70s, the heyday of wearable art as a new medium, fade into the past, contemporary wearable art has become more refined, minimalistic, and influenced by fashion. This divergence has seen some of the spiritual successors to wearable art branch off into popular culture, such as Burning Man, cosplay, and fursuiting.
JACKET by K. Riley, of hand-carved blockprinted fabric, 2019.
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Lesley Aine McKeown’s jewelry explores space, science fiction worlds and juicy stones, while she shares her wisdom on life and philosophy.