Wallpaper design (detail) by Anthony Zollo. Image courtesy of the artist.

For a couple of years now, Florida Craftsmen has been organizing a series of exhibitions that explore a single theme: living with art and fine craft. Despite their conceptual commonality, the exhibits couldn’t be more diverse. At Home With Crafts, the inaugural effort in 2007, offered everything from artist-designed linens and a custom fireplace to one-of-a-kind flatware and a handmade wood crib, all presented in a model home-style layout inside the gallery. Last year’s follow up, Architectural Details and Other Decorative Crafts, wowed with pieces like Alison Swann-Ingram and Carl Johnson’s eco-minimalist coffee table, made of reclaimed wood topped with glass.

This year, Florida Craftsmen narrows its focus to one particular ‘medium’—an interior design staple that has enjoyed a recent upswing in mass market popularity: wallpaper. True to their mission (“empower artists, enrich the community, engage the next generation”), the nonprofit has partnered with about 20 artists—the vast majority of them local and ‘emerging’—to create more than twice as many unique wallpapers that, it seems safe to say (for now at least), you won’t find anywhere else.

This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2009.