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
- Newspaper Seedling Pots
- Yarn-Wrapped Hearts
- At-Home Ceramics Scavenger Hunt
- Beginner Fairy Garden
- Color Wheel Scavenger Hunt
- Tissue Paper Flowers
- Colorful Chalk Patterns
- Shrink Plastic Key Chains
- DIY Reusable Food Wrap
- Backyard Bubble Wand
- Paper Lanterns
- Natural Dyeing
- Roselle Hibiscus Plant Harvesting
- Yarn Ghost Garland
- Spider-Web Suncatcher
- Pop-Up Book Creature
- DIY Nail Art
- Upcycled Festive Wrapping Paper
- New Year’s Wiggle Candles
- 5 Ways to Approach a New Craft Medium
- Learn About Luffas
- Painted Heart Pillow
- Exploring Cochineal
- What’s Your Ring Size?
- DIY Macrame Coaster
- Egg Carton Spring Wreath
- Let’s Go Fly A Kite
- What is a Mordant?
- Five Senses Nature Walk
- Meet the Craft Center bees!
- A Deep Dive into Nine-Patch Quilt Blocks
- Felt Letter Banner
- What We’re Doing at Sumer Craft Camp 2022
- Kiln 101
- Mardi Gras Beads 101
- I Spy in the Galleries
- All About Aloe
- Sundials for September
- A History of Pochoir
- Plaster Bandage Spooky Mask
- Introduction to Cotton
- Nature Inspired Place Settings
- All About the Butterfly Vine
- Woven Paper Ornaments
- Deep Dive: Cardboard
- Cardboard Space Shuttles
- Potato Stamp Valentines
- Kiln-Glass Deep Dive
- Jute Deep Dive
- Caring for the Craft Center Bees
- Printing on Metal
- Craft Community Day Roundup
- Earth Day Nature Craft
- Deep Dive: Studio Furniture Movement
- Deep Dive: Coiled Basketry
- Deep Dive: Papel Picado
**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
- Craft Chats: Weave Houston Tour
- Feature on Texas Master James C. Watkins
- Feature on Anna Meyer’s Sifting Process
- Texas Talks Art: James Watkins & Kathryn Hall
- Feature on “The Reflection Series” by James Watkins
- Craft Chats: Tour of “Texas Master Series: James C. Watkins”
- Craft Chats: “Forms of Inheritance” Tour with Anna Mayer
- Feature on Anna Mayer’s “REM Claimington”
- The Award-Winning Pieces from “Weave Houston”
- Focus on James Watkins’ “Bottle Form”
- Ceramics + Geologic Time Panel Discussion
- Artist-Led Exhibitions Tour & Conversation with Anna Mayer and James Watkins
- Craft Chats: Alternative Firing Processes with Clay
- Feature on Anna Mayer’s “Fireful of Fear”
- Sneak Peek of “Suited Up” with Michael Lane
- Sneak Peek of “Suited Up” with Devyn Coleman, Tamara and Simone Dejean
- Focus on Joy O. Ude’s “Coming to America”
- Focus on Xephyr Studio’s “Moira” Cosplay
- Craft Chats: “9ja Vision” Tour with Joy O. Ude
- Explore Joy Ude’s “9ja Gal” Series
- Feature on Jessi Arntz of JAFantasyArt, “Suited Up”
- Craft Chats: Tour of “Suited Up”
- Feature on Cuck Dorsett, “Suited Up”
- Craft Chats: “Suited Up” Conversation with Jessi Arntz of JAFantasyArt
- Focus on Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s Community Bead Project
- Up-close look at “Spirit Week” by Antonius-Tín Bui
- Feature on Lutavia Cosplay, “Suited Up”
- Feature on Kirstin Willders, “In Residence: 14th Edition”
- Focus on “Later, Longer, Fewer” and Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s Community Bead Project
- Feature on Osa Atoe, “Copy Culture”
- Feature on “RUBBISH FAMzine No. 9 Ballad of the Unfinished Chair Chronicle”, “Copy Culture”
- Feature on Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s “Two Weeks Wait”
- Focus on Case Study Space: In Memory of Clint Willour
- Feature on Andy Hirsch, “Copy Culture”
- Feature on Jihye Han, “Limitless”
- “Limitless” Virtual Tour & Conversation
- Feature on Tammie Rubin, “Limitless”
- “Rings!” Community Pick: Nash Quinn
- “Rings!” Virtual Conversation
- Feature on Earnest Snell, “Limitless”
- Feature on Case Study Space: Isaac Scott
- A Guided Look At “Rings!”
- Focus on exhibition design in “Nothing Goes to Waste”
- Feature HMAG’s “Sawed, Soldered, Constructed” award winners
- Feature on Jeff Forster, “Nothing Goes to Waste”
- “Sawed, Soldered, Constructed” Community Pick: Sandi Elsik
- Watch a preview of Nicole Dextras’s film, “Chronos, time of sand” (2021-present)
- Learn about the “Made to Last” Community Quilt Project
- Up-close look at “Juneteenth” (2019) by Hastle Dean Murray
- Case Study Community Pick: Angel Oloshove
- “Made to Last” Close Look: Sean Casey
- Chronos–Inspired Cooling Summer Beverage
- Watch a preview of Nicole Dextras’s film, “Waiting for Spring: Persephone and the Pomegranate”
- “Made to Last” Close Look: Leslie Abrams
- Feature on Resident Artist Friendships in “In Residence: 15th Edition”
- “In Residence: 15th Edition” Close Look: Stephanie J. Woods
- Unboxing “Forbidden Fruit” by Alejandra Carillo-Estrada
- Feature on “CraftTexas 2022” Awards of Merit
- “CraftTexas 2022” Community Pick: Jacob Villalobos
- Focus on Linguistic Diversity in “CraftTexas 2022”
- Up-close look at “Ghost Box” (2018) by Steve Parker in “CraftTexas 2022”
- “CraftTexas 2022” Close Look: Roberto Jackson Harrington
- Up-close look at “Piles and Bundles” (2022) by Tiffany Angel Nesbit in “CraftTexas 2022”
- “CraftTexas 2022” Close Look: Chet Urban
- “CraftTexas 2022″ Close Look: Karla García
- “Tg: Transitions in Kiln Glass” Close Look: Evan Burnette
- Artist & Curator Tour of “Philippine-Made”
- “Philippine-Made” Close Look: Installing “Hang Low (Pabitin)” (2023) by Matt Manalo
- “Tg” Community Pick: Susie Silbert
- “Philippine-Made” Deep Dive: “Gaze” (2022) by Matt Manalo
- Playing with Color in our “Tg” Interpretive Space
- “Philippine-Made” Close Look: “38” by Matt Manalo
- “Tg” Close Look: Andy Gersh’s “Signature Tree”
- Close Look: Joey Veltkamp in HCCC’s Case Study Space
**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
- Feature on resident artist Abbie Preston Edmonson
- Feature on resident artists Hillerbrand + Magsamen
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks: Hillerbrand + Magsamen
- Studio Sessions: Abbie Preston Edmonson
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Abbie Preston Edmonson & Hong Hong
- HOH To Go: Cyanotype Demo with Hillerbrand + Magsamen
- Studio Sessions: Hillerbrand + Magsamen
- Craft Chats: Exploring the Craft Garden
- HOH To Go: Magnetic Quilt Demo by Joy O. Ude
- Feature on Resident Artist Chloe Darke
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Chloe Darke, Stephanie Robison & Michael Velliquette
- Feature on Resident Artist Naomi Peterson
- Feature on Resident Artist Carl Johnson
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Carl Johnson & Naomi Peterson
- Feature on Resident Artist Nash Quinn
- Feature on Resident Artist Joan Brown
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Priscilla Dobler Dzul & Kerianne Quick
- Feature on Resident Artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul
- Feature on Resident Artist Kerianne Quick
- Feature on “Untitled” (2021), a collaboration by Resident Artists Joan Brown and Nash Quinn
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Joan Brown & Nash Quinn
- Feature on Resident Artist Chenlu Hou
- Feature on Resident Artist Jihye Han
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Chenlu Hou & Jihye Han
- Feature on Resident Artist Kelly Dzioba
- Feature on Resident Artist Stephanie J. Woods
- Watch a Timelapse of Kelly Dzioba Weaving with Party Beads
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Kelly Dzioba & Stephanie J. Woods
- Feature on Resident Artist Bennie Flores Ansell
- Feature on Resident Artist Shradha Kochhar
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Bennie Flores Ansell & Shradha Kochhar
- Feature on Resident Artist Rebekah Sweda
- Virtual Resident Artist Talks with Lakea Shepard & Rebekah Sweda
- Open Door Interviews: Rebekah Sweda
- Open Door Interviews: Yeonsoo Kim
- Open Door Interviews: Lakea Shepard
- Feature on Resident Artist Miles Gracey
- Feature on Resident Artist Margot Becker
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