Contemporary Masters of Craft Techniques

In recent years, craft-based mediums have captured the art world’s attention, with leading institutions, galleries, and auction houses highlighting new and historically overlooked developments in ceramics, textiles, mosaics, and more. Many groundbreaking talents—Harmony Hammond, Sheila Hicks, Jeffrey Gibson, and Sterling Ruby, among them—are finally receiving the attention they have long deserved, showcased in museum exhibitions from the Whitney Museum to the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art. From The Haas Brothers’s beaded creatures to Shahzia Sikander’s mosaic portraits, discover works to collect by emerging and established artists who have pushed craft-based mediums to new heights.