Craft Ecologies 2026

Craft Ecologies builds on an ongoing curatorial interest in ecological interdependence and more-than-human systems. It expands this inquiry toward material practices that sustain and carry knowledge, bringing together artists whose practices engage biomaterials and material traditions through contemporary approaches to making.

Viewed through a broader historical lens, biomaterials have long been part of human handcraft and craft traditions, continually reimagined and repurposed in response to contemporary issues. Rather than framing biomaterials through innovation or future-oriented narratives, the exhibition considers how materials and traditional forms of making actively shape relationships between people, place, labor, material histories, and shared environments. Materials are understood as sites of relation where cultural, ecological, and embodied knowledge is formed and re-formed through practice.

The exhibition is grounded in a context where material practices continue to play an active role in how communities respond to changing conditions, from everyday acts of care and maintenance to moments of collective strain and adaptation. Craft Ecologies recognizes these practices as ongoing forms of care, resilience, and retelling, shaping how communities navigate ecological and social change.

This exhibition is curated by Pamela Vázquez Torres and Emma Wood. Pamela Vázquez Torres is an art historian, curator, producer, and interdisciplinary artist from Mexico based in Minneapolis. Emma Wood is a Swedish-American interdisciplinary artist and arts facilitator based between Denmark and Minneapolis.

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Minneapolis, MN 55409