Future Craft is a national group exhibition. This show is juried by artist, gallerist, and educator Kendall Reiss. In Future Craft, the exhibiting artists draw from intersectional identities and social practices to reconsider and reinterpret the handmade as a futuristic ideal.

Work on view in Future Craft includes fiber, ceramics, cyanotypes, mixed media, sculpture, painting, knitwear, drawing, book arts, and furniture. In her ceramics practice, artist Hannah Duggan utilizes new technologies and traditional ceramic techniques to translate digital imagery, text, and files into ceramic sculpture and vessels, as seen in the stoneware piece Search Vase. In Hunger and Headaches, Robin Hoerth’s glass work celebrates hope and our inner self. Rora Blue uses woven bandages and pressed flowers in OUCH II to reposition the queer and disabled body as being synonymous with nature.

Future Craft highlights the ingenuity and relevance of craft and design in contemporary art. From artists like Sasha Azbel and h Duggan, Jennifer Fernandez, E. Winslow Funaki, Fionnualla Gerrity, Sophie Glenn, Garrett Gould, Olivia Hochstadt, who use natural dye out of a concern for the environment, to artists like Hannah Duggan and Roopa Vasudevan, who contemplate technology, the featured artists in this exhibition sustain a link to the past while pushing the boundaries of function, adornment, tradition, and community engagement.

Featured Artists

Sasha  Azbel, Ray Bernoff, Rora Blue, Amy Chan, Sandra Charlap, Jinghong Chen, Hannah Duggan, Jennifer Fernandez, E. Winslow Funaki, Fionnualla Gerrity, Sophie Glenn, Garrett Gould, Olivia Hochstadt, Robin Hoerth, Ezri Horne, Marisa McCarthy, Connor Noll, Julie Peck, Andy Pepper, Monika Pobiarzyn, Samantha Polinsky, Roopa Vasudevan, Sydney Vize

About the Juror

A native of Bristol, Rhode Island, Kendall Reiss grew up exploring the rocky shoreline of Narragansett Bay. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA where she received a BS in Geology, which provided the visual training and hands-on approach she now uses as an artist and educator. After studying at several prominent institutions including the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Kendall returned to school to combine her fascination of the natural world with the study of jewelry. In 2011, she received a MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design.

International presentations of her work include: Finnish jewelry triennial, KORU8 with exhibitions at The Finnish Forest Museum Lusto in Punkaharju and The Oulu Art Museum, Finland in 2024 and 2025 respectively. Her work was exhibited in Jewelry & Nature at Tincal Lab in Porto, Portugal, as well as nationally for New York City Jewelry Week, at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Bristol Art Museum, and Haskell Public Gardens. In February 2024, Kendall presented her ongoing research project, BEING [with] TREES at the College Art Association annual conference in a panel led by curator Martina Tanga; Learning from Trees: Artists & Climate Solutions.

As a gallerist, Kendall has worked both independently and collaboratively on curatorial projects on the East and West Coasts at Brooklyn Metal Works, The Hotel Wilshire, Velvet da Vinci, and Alloy Gallery. She has taught across New England and nationally including at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fuller Craft Museum, and with Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft. Kendall is currently a Professor of the Practice in Metals at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA, where she serves as Chair of the 3D & Performance Department.

Press

‘Future Craft’ at Gallery 263 manages some jolts from knitwear, ceramics, sculpture and furniture by Claire Ogden for Cambridge Day