Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Spaces Between
March 28–May 17, 2025
Artists' Reception: Saturday, April 12, 6-8pm
Held in partnership with the Surface Design Association (SDA), this call-for-entry is open to both SDA and Florida CraftArt members. Highlighting work made with a fibers sensibility, including traditional and cross-disciplinary materials, techniques, and practices, as well as experimental processes and material innovation, this exhibition invites artists to reflect creatively on the spaces between. Juror: Akiko Kotani.
Upcoming Exhibitions
99 Bottles
May 24–July 12, 2025
Juror's Reception: Friday, June 6, 2025, 5:30-8:30pm
Florida CraftArt announces 99 Bottles, a juried exhibition inviting artists from across the country to explore the bottle as both a form and an idea. Featuring works in glass, ceramics, metal, wood, fibers, and mixed media, the show celebrates the creativity and craftsmanship behind this timeless object.
Juror: Rachel Rearick, Executive Director of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2025 Emerging Artist Exhibition
July 18–27, 2025
Florida CraftArt's Emerging Artist Program is designed to nurture and advance the careers of emerging craft artists. The Emerging Artist Exhibition is a part of this program, where participating Emerging Artists are invited to exhibit their work in a group exhibition at Florida CraftArt (FCA).
Duck to Water
August 2-30, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 9, 6-8pm
Duck to Water is a curated exhibition that convenes regional and national artists with a fresh approach to contemporary craft rooted in traditional processes. Their works in fiber, wood, ceramic, jewelry, and collage demonstrate skilled application of materials with an intuitive hand. Like ducks to water, these artists achieve an effortlessness in their work that can only be arrived at through years of training and mastery of their respective media. Curated by Jessica Todd, Gallery Manager, Florida CraftArt
Against the Grain
September 13-October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6-8pm
Florida CraftArt announces Against the Grain, a curated exhibition celebrating the timeless art of woodworking while pushing the boundaries of tradition. This innovative exhibition highlights cutting-edge concepts, contemporary techniques, and the evolving relationship between function and form. Guest curator: Kurt Raschke
Unwrapped: Handmade Holidays 2025
November 8-December 31, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 6-8pm
Unwrapped: Handmade Holidays is Florida CraftArt’s annual juried members’ holiday exhibition, inviting Florida-based Fine Craft artists to showcase the state’s best handmade gifts and artwork.
Past Exhibitions
Rebels – Call to Artists
Explore what it means to be an art rebel and guarantee to get folks excited and inspired.
This exhibition showcases the finest contemporary ceramics, glass, jewelry, fiber, metals, mixed media, and wood.
The Alchemy of Art – Exhibition
Art is science not only through its medium and technical aspects, but also in the biochemical reactions that it elicits from people who interact with it physiologically, neurologically and psychologically. This fine craft exhibition is the “whole piece;” it encompasses the creator, the fabrication, the object and the viewer.
The Artists of ArtLofts 2023
18 artists from ArtLofts present their work in Florida CraftArt's Exhibition Gallery
Florida CraftArt Members’ Show 2023
All Florida CraftArt members are invited to submit work to this year’s juried Members’ Exhibition which will be held at the Florida CraftArt Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida. This exhibition showcases the finest contemporary glass, jewelry, fiber, wood, ceramics, metals and mixed media
Holiday Boutique 2022
Shop in our gallery for fine crafts by more than 240 Florida artists
From holiday cards to ornaments and gifts that people will love and use. Are you looking for gifts for business or colleagues? We have prepackaged gifts available in quantity.
26th Annual Florida CraftArt Festival
The 26th Annual Florida CraftArt Festival on Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19, is a destination for tourists and local visitors to enjoy a fun-filled, visually exciting Florida weekend. Collectors and art lovers will be delighted by the creations of one hundred of the nation’s best contemporary fine craft artists from twelve states.
Clearly Collaborative
Clearly Collaborative is an exhibition of original glass and multi-media sculptures created through an exceptional collaboration between nine multi-media master artists/makers and established glass master Duncan McClellan.
Artists’ Workbench
August 19 – October 15, 2022 Sixteen Tampa Bay region artists will set up their workbench and studios in the Florida CraftArt Exhibition Gallery and demonstrate how they create fine craft.
SAQA Quilt show: The Artist’s Question… Answered in Fiber
Creating a work of art begins with a question. The artist might ask: What idea is important for me to communicate? What concept do I want to explore? What emotions do I want to experience and evoke in the viewer? What interests me?
Artists of ArtLofts 2022
Florida CraftArt will present The Artists of ArtLofts in its Exhibition Gallery from May 20 – May 31, 2022. The award-winning and emerging artists will present recent artwork which includes drawings, encaustic, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography and sculpture.
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