Join HCCC from home to explore craft artists, exhibitions, hands-on activities, and more! Discover how you can stay connected with HCCC virtually, through a variety of content for all ages.
New content is posted on Facebook and Instagram every week. Join us for fun art-making projects you can do at home, exclusive exhibition content, or studio tours with local artists, resident artist features, and more.
We are excited to bring HCCC into your homes! Check out the archive of our virtual content below, and share your creations with #craftwithhccc or tag us at @crafthouston. Please share your thoughts and feedback with us at education@crafthouston.org.
**MAKE** your own craft projects at home, through short videos created by our education team. Simple making projects, such as homemade playdough, marbled paper, and weaving bookmarks, are fun and easy for the whole family to do.
- Weave a Bookmark
- Make Garden Markers
- Make Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
- Make Your Own Fabric Mask
- Make Nature Trading Cards
- Create Natural Playdough
- Create Land Art
- Make Cardboard Garlands
- Make Marbled Paper
- Clone a Plant
- Create a One-Page Zine
- Create Rust-Dyed Fabric
- Eco-Print with Rust-Dyed Fabric
- Tattoo a Banana
- Create Your Own Sketchbook
- Grow a Pineapple
- Create Multiple Prints through Scratch-Foam Printing
- Create Fun Refrigerator-Magnet Frames
- Create Whimsical Cardboard Masks
- Make Pressed Flowers
- Create Yarn-Wrapped Letters
- Create Bug-Finder Binoculars
- Shiny Art Necklace
- Pasta Stained Glass
- Paper-Weaving Project
- Coffee-Can Drum Project
- Shadow Drawing & Collage
- Cardboard Play Car
- Colorful Branch Bouquet
- Paper-Mache Letters
- Shrink Plastic Jewelry
- Shiny Fridge Art
- Fall Leaves Garland
- Pumpkin Carving Tips & Tricks
Festive Mini-Corn Husks
Scrap Wood Houses
Close-Looking Activity Inspired by “Breaking Tradition”
Pop-up Card Demo with Maria-Elisa Heg
Cardboard Gingerbread Houses
Wood Block Calendars
Recycled-Paper Woven Baskets
**EXPLORE** special insights and behind-the-scenes videos related to our exhibitions and featured artists, led by our curatorial staff.
- Explore Aya Kakeda’s Zine, “Shape of Things”
- Tour “In Residence: 12th Edition” at HCCC
- Watch the Installation of Casey Curran’s “Anchor of Janus”
- Tour Our Winter Exhibitions (created for Glasstire’s Five-Minute Tours series)
- Explore Casey Curran’s “Dark Garden”
- Tour the Exhibition, “Drawn to the Work”
- Up-Close Look at “Pot Pourri le Dog” by Aurélie Guillaume
- Examine Sophie Glenn’s “Moonstruck” Table
- Behind the Scenes: “Meta-Formation: New Connections in Contemporary Blacksmithing”
- Wayback Wednesday: “Light Charmer: Neon and Plasma in Action”
- Metalworking Demo with “Meta-Formation” artist Rachel David
- Sneak Peek of “In Residence: 13th Edition”
- From 2019: “Tiff Massey: A Different World”
- Flashback to “Dining and Discourse”
- Flashback to “In Residence 2010”
- Flashback to “Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched”
- Flashback to 2013 Exhibition “Ctrl + P”
- Unboxing Maxwell Mustardo’s “Pink Pitcher”
- Seth Gould’s “Indicator Lock”
- Flashback to 2018 Exhibition, “I Don’t Play That Game”
- Colby Brinkman’s “Fluctuation Portal”
- Installation of Nicolle LaMere’s “Glomus” in the Craft Garden
- Craft Chats: Tour of “Meta-Formation”
- Craft Chats: Tour of “In Residence: 13th Edition”
- Sneak Peak of “In Residence: 13th Edition”
“Meta-Formation” Tour & Conversation with Rachel David
Feature on Audrey LeGalley, “In Residence: 13th Edition”
Feature on Steven Young Lee, “Breaking Tradition”
Craft Chats: Tour of “Breaking Tradition”
Feature on David Harper Clemons, “Meta-Formation”
Craft Chats: Ask a Curator
Feature on Beth Lipman from “Breaking Tradition”
Five-Minute Tour of “Breaking Tradition”
“Weave Houston” Preview with Kyla Crawford
“Weave Houston” Juror Awards
**LEARN** about craft processes and how artists make through studio tours of HCCC’s resident artists, staff, and other members of the craft community.
- Joyce Lin Talks About Making Medical Supplies At TX/RX Labs
- Tour Sandie Zilker’s Studio
- Tour Corey Ackelmire & Nathan Dube’s Studio
- Studio Update from Fiber Artist Tim Gonchoroff
- Tour HCCC Education + Program Manager Tarina Frank’s Studio
- Studio Update from Ceramicist Nicolle LaMere
- Tar-Gel Etching with Margaret Craig
- Tour Angel Oloshove’s “Big Red Barn” Studio
- Vinyl Collage with Tim Gonchoroff
- Virtual Artist Talks with Lauren Eckert & Brian Vu
- Resin Experiment with Metalsmith Rene Henry
- Tour Molly Koehn’s Home Studio
- Spotlight on Susannah Mira
- Studio Sessions with Abi Ogle
- Abi Ogle and the Craft Garden
- Studio Sessions with Brian Vu
- Studio Sessions with Nicolle LaMere
- Metalsmith Monica Coyne in Studio
- Studio Sessions with Kirstin Willders
Virtual Artist Talks with Nicolle LaMere & Kirstin Willders
Studio Sessions with Hong Hong
Please help us continue to provide virtual educational programming, free to the public, during this challenging time by making a donation below. Thank you.
