"This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. The exhibition catalogue highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism-showing us a more relational and empathetic world. It centers more expansive definitions and acknowledgments of often-overlooked histories and contributions of women, people of color, and other marginalized...

In 1969, an exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution that defined the American studio craft movement. "Objects: USA" united a cohort of artists inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media. Subsequently touring to twenty-two museums across the country, where it was viewed by over half a million Americans, and then to eleven cities in Europe, the exhibition canonized such artists as Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick,...