Today, artist Beau McCall—dubbed “The Button Man”—has works, including durags and jackets in museum collections around the world.

Jackson’s company, Chopped & Served, carves out space for Blewish culinary traditions and identity in an otherwise mostly white Jewish community.

Witchcraft and Paganism existed in Slavic regions long before Christianity found a home.

In the Appalachian Mountains, folk magic goes by many names: root work, granny magic, kitchen witchery, Braucherei, witchcraft.

Johnson unpacks her spiritual lineage through works that reclaim ancestral memory, hold space for reverence, and create a uniquely Black iconography.

When Mariam Youssef was told she couldn’t sing, it was in essence a mechanism of holding her cultural identity hostage. 

Worn by lay people since the early Middle Ages, devotional scapulars carry symbols or verses that once connected the wearer to a particular monastic community.

Between July 20 and 22, 2021, AACI hosted the Craft Institution Consortium, where organizations discussed future collaborations with African American Makers.