Welcome to the Craft in Focus Festival Program

Learn the basics of suminagashi, a Japanese marbling technique.

Learn the basics of how to create a leaded glass panel.

Star Wars Origami workshop by Chris Alexander: May the folds be with you!

Learn how to form and sink the bowl of a spoon in copper or brass sheet using mallets and dapping blocks.

For the first time in New York! Make your own Shaun the Sheep.

Learn to work with stone, a truly ancient craft.

Grow your own pendant lamp, using Ecovative’s patented GIY Mushroom Material.

Learn graffiti skills from Brooklyn legend KEO

Learn how pleating works from a Dutch master

In this workshop you will learn how to create simple and elegant stacking rings in round and square wire.

Learn how to write your own name using calligraphy and graffiti styles.

One-on-one jewelry design workshop

Acquire significant fashion design skills and produce your own unique tie in this 2.5 hour long workshop.

In this workshop you will learn how to pierce with a drill and use a jeweler’s saw to cut sheet metal and create intricate designs to be worn as earrings.

Grow your own planter, using Ecovative’s patented GIY Mushroom Material.

Create your own sculpture that, when combined with littleBits, will light up, twist, turn, buzz, blink, and shake!

Explore the basics of relief printmaking.

Learn how to make a traditional wooden nail

Learn how to draw hands from artist Daan Noppen

Learn backstrap weaving techniques and make a a necklace, headpiece, strap, or belt.

Learn to make three different styles of books: chapbooks, accordion books, and artist books.

Learn how to wrap wire to design and create a beaded necklace and matching earrings.

Learn how to mix exquisite cocktails by master mixologist Ektoras Binikos.

Join a unique master class by guru Christiaan

French lingerie designer will teach fashion designers and students corset making skills.

Guitar builder Flip Scipio will share his techniques and experiences during this exclusive master class.

Faber Navalis is an award-winning documentary on the restoration of a large Norwegian ship, by Italian researcher and shipwright Maurizio Borriello.

Beautiful portrait of ageing Romanian blacksmiths.

This music-documentary is an intimate portrait of master guitar builder Flip Scipio. Including Q&A.

Documentary film about artist Ron Mueck by filmmaker and photographer Gautier Deblonde

In stunning cinematography, The Birth of Saké reveals the story of passionate saké-makers and what it takes to make world-class saké at Yoshida Brewery, a 144-year-old family-owned small brewery in northern Japan.

Oscar winning short Dutch documentary.

A documentary about the restoration of a notable Dutch windmill by young, passionate millwrights.

Outstanding documentary about three Italian master tailors.

Alwyn Enoe is approaching his 70s and decides to build one last traditional Caribbean sailing sloop with the hope that his sons will continue the trade.

The refined Japanese Kakiemon porcelain, developed in the 17th century, is today still entirely handmade and handpainted.

Meet Award winning Dutch Fashion Designer Mattijs van Bergen

Who were the first Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam, and which skills did they bring?

Meet master artisans Vanessa Hoheb and Thomas Donahue, who worked with Willem de Kooning and have restored the Statue of Liberty.

Experience bedmaking at it’s finest! Hästens bedmakers are flying in from Sweden!

Koko NYC will offer a free opportunity for kids and interested adults to try their hand at boat building!

Given the right tools for the job and the knowledge how to use them, you’ll be amazed at what you can create!

Artist Alice Hope will be working in collaboration with the audience on a mountain of used can tabs to construct a continuous sculptural malleable line.

Eau d’Amsterdam is the first ever green perfume from the historical centre of Amsterdam

Watch a violin maker at work

Help assemble a traditional Dutch Barn model

At the event your kids can relax and play in the KidKraft Play Area.

Join us for the Courtyard Party!

The American Artist’s Hand Archive has been established to document through castings in bronze the hands of many of America’s most distinguished and venerated visual artists.

A centuries old Dutch craft: Royal Delft Earthenware.