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Smithsonian Craft Show Offers Joy-Filled Focus on Sustainability
The esteemed Smithsonian Craft Show returns to the National Building Museum on May 1-5, 2024. Widely regarded as the most prestigious juried show and sale of American fine craft, the Smithsonian Craft Show, now in its 42d year, will feature the work of 120 artists....
Journey to Nature’s Underworld: Exploring Our Role In, And Impact On, Nature With Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman
How can art inspire us to reflect on – and ultimately address – our burgeoning climate and ecological crises? Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld explores how two distinguished artists have tackled this question over 3 decades. This thoughtful...
Artists Celebrate Birds, Insects and their Interconnections
“Hedfanol” (Welsh for “flight” or “flying”) is the title of a new Craft in the Bay exhibition in Cardiff, Wales. The flight-themed exhibition features contemporary original prints of birds and insects – two of only three existing animals with the power to fly. (Bats...
Iconography for a 21st Century Environmental Crisis
For centuries, humans have created icons to signify persons or objects they cherish. So when artist Angela Manno decided to call attention to skyrocketing rates of plant and animal extinction, she gravitated to icons. “I am the honeybee. I work tirelessly to produce...
Artists Spotlight Nature’s Curiosities
In the 16th & 17th centuries, nobles, scholars and scientists maintained “cabinets of curiosity” or “wonder rooms,” collections of awe-inspiring natural objects. Over time, these cabinets became the forerunners of modern museum collections. Verity Pulford, curator...
Scuba-diver’s Reef-inspired Artistry Wins Honoring the Future® Sustainability Award
Today, metalsmith Jinbi Park won the “Honoring the Future® Sustainability Award” at the prestigious 2023 Smithsonian Craft Show. The national award, which comes with a $1000 prize, recognizes an artist whose work educates the public about, or inspires or models, a...
Smithsonian Craft Show Shines Spotlight on Sustainability
The esteemed Smithsonian Craft Show returns to the National Building Museum May 3-7, 2023. Widely regarded as the most prestigious juried show and sale of American fine craft, the Smithsonian Craft Show, now in its 41st year, will feature the work of 120 artists....
Kennedy Center Festival Explores Connection Between Art, Culture and the Environment
In its acclaimed 50-year history, the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC has hosted 28 international festivals to connect audiences to cultures throughout the world. This spring, the Center hosts RiverRun, a celebration of the world’s rivers...
Artists Rally to Preserve Green Space
Jersey City Efforts May Benefit Entire US East Coast How do you draw attention to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to preserve green space? For one university and community organization, the answer was obvious: invite artists to help! The New Jersey City...
Artist Tackles Environmental Justice in Flint, Michigan
Lessons Learned From The Flint Water Crisis Sometimes it takes more than a village – sometimes it also takes the help of an artist – to right a serious environmental injustice. In 2016, renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier set out to create a photo essay about...
Smithsonian Craft Show Returns with Stunning Focus on Sustainability
The esteemed Smithsonian Craft Show returns to the National Building Museum on April 20-24, 2022 for its first live show since the start of the COVID pandemic. Twenty-three of the exhibitors applied for the Honoring the Future Sustainability Award. The award, which...
Pioneering Artist Offers New Ways of Understanding Our Connection With Nature
How we react to climate change – whether we regard it as an existential or merely peripheral issue – depends to a great extent on how we see deteriorating ecosystems as affecting us. Amy Hoagland’s art raises that very question: how deeply are we connected with, and...