Event
Handi-hour
Celebrate the summer growing season with a State Fairs-inspired agricultural craft at DC’s original crafting happy hour! Take inspiration from the crop art on view in State Fairs: Growing American Craft and then create your own crop artwork using seeds and beans that grow our food. While you are working, enjoy cider provided by ANXO and live, local music. Light snacks, crafting materials, two drinks, and after-hours access to both floors of the exhibition galleries are included in the ticket price.
Attendees must be 21+ to attend and present a valid ID with birthdate at the door. Tickets are $25 and are available for purchase beginning June 11.
On View At
Branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum dedicated to exhibiting American contemporary craft, celebrating makers taking both innovative and time-honored approaches to their work.
Washington, DC
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily
What's on View
State Fairs: Growing American Craft is the first exhibition dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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