2023 National Craft Awards

The work of Álvaro Leiro is based on his deep connection with the culture of Galicia. His intention is to preserve and revitalize ancient forms of craftsmanship, transmitting their beauty and value through contemporary pieces.

Vidrio Sorribes is a company with three generations of glassblowing and glass-handling artisans. Today, Sara Sorribes continues to highlight the mastery of the craft, progressively expanding its collaboration with artisans from different disciplines.

Garín 1820 is a Valencian company with a two-hundred-year tradition whose manual silk weaving activity has remained uninterrupted throughout its history.

Inés Rodríguez runs the Rir&Co textile studio from Allariz (Ourense), where she has focused her work on researching new fabrics to produce contemporary artisanal pieces. The D-leite blankets are hand-woven with a merino wool warp and a milk fibre weft.

Carmen17 has been developing artisanal work within the discipline of costumes in the field of performing and audiovisual arts for more than ten years. Since 2020, he has created a collection of handmade clothing with the intention of transmitting artisan processes and encouraging local and conscious consumption.

El Arte del Olivo was born in 2011 as a reaction to the habitual burning of olive pruning waste on the farms of Jaén. This fact caused Juan Manuel Molina Baena to decide to create olive utensils with the pruning recovered from the farms and the collaboration of the farmers.

Alfonso Hidalgo Cruz, a craftsman from Úbeda, is the sixth generation of a family of potters. After his training, he decided to break away from traditional family pottery and found his own company under the name Góngora Cerámica, where he began to investigate the latest techniques in contemporary ceramics.

Julia de la Cal is the designer and basket maker behind LA PARABÓLICA, a studio-workshop in O Porriño, Pontevedra, which develops basketry projects. Her work combines design methodology and artisanal processes to create pieces with a contemporary vision and a high degree of quality.

Regina Degiorgis Jiménez is an artist, designer and teacher and has run her own art and textile design studio Regina Dejiménez since 2019, with which she develops art, education and management projects linked to contemporary textile crafts.

With the collective exhibition "Masters of the Future. Crafts and Design in Europe" the Association has wanted to promote in Spain the updating of the Arts and Crafts through the creative look at today's world, which understands and recovers the wealth hidden in the knowledge accumulated over centuries of artisan practices.

This association has launched a museum and a training center in which a wide variety of courses are taught aimed at technicians, construction professionals and the general public, always focusing on traditional, ecological and sustainable construction.

PATRIMONIO VIVO, started by FOACAL in 2020, is a visual memory of contemporary crafts in Castilla y León, from new artisan trades to traditional ways of doing things, with the intention of conveying to society the real image of artistic and traditional trades.

The Public Foundation for Crafts in Galicia launched the project "Crafts at Heart, Traditional and Popular Crafts Meeting in Galicia" in 2012 in the Pendellos de Agolada. An initiative that has become an unmissable event at Galician craft events.

“Retorno de Sentimiento” is a project that has been developed in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de València since 2012 based on the joint work of craft companies and industrial design students, in order to promote entrepreneurship, professionalization and creativity.

The ADA (Crafts + Design + Art) project was created in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Granada and the Albayzín Craft Center to establish a space that would promote research and innovation in the craft sector and in order to strengthen the sector and encourage generational change.