Video Craft | February 28 - August 16, 2026

The Museum of Craft and Design presents "Video Craft", an exhibition of contemporary artists turning to video not as an escape from materiality, but as a way to deepen it.

MCD is pleased to announce Video Craft, curated by Sarah Mills, PhD, and Ariel Zaccheo, MCD Curatorial Director, opening February 28, 2026. The exhibition explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass.

Craft practices have long been cut out of new media discourse, a trend currently being reversed. Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, Video Craft takes terms usually associated with media art and expands them to examine practices by artists using a wider range of materials and techniques, many of which are rooted in craft history.

This exhibition brings together artists at different stages of their careers, from early pioneers of video production to emerging digital natives. Video Craft illustrates an unlikely partnership between the heavily embodied practices of craft and the ephemeral nature of the screen.

Participating Artists: Danielle Andress, Sydney Cash, Gregory Climer, William Cobbing, Kelly Egan, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Kira Dominguez-Hultgren, Lauren Kalman, Beryl Korot, Ahree Lee, Jodie Mack, Kate Nartker, Megumi Naitoh, Senga Nengudi, Sarah Rosalena, Richard Vijgen, Jennifer West, and Shaheer Zazai.

Images:

Senga Nengudi, Warp Trance, 2007, installation view in Video Craft, 2026. Museum of Craft and Design. Photo by Henrik Kam

Video Craft, 2026. Photo by Henrik Kam

Video Craft, 2026. Photo by Henrik Kam

Video Craft, 2026. Photo by Henrik Kam