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 2020_DC_SIRG_Masks | 15 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit Case: Pandemic Face Masks by Native Women Artists
Artists from Native American nations of the Northwest Coast, Midwest, and Northeast created these face masks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Accomplished beadwork artists and basket makers, these women adapted materials and techniques from their tribal traditions onto the most common of... |
| 2010_DC_SIRG_Gaman | 44 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Art of Gaman
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
March 5, 2010 – January 30, 2011
The exhibit features more than 120 arts-and-crafts objects made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II, along with photographs illustrating life in the... |
| 2018_DC_SIRG_Disrupting | 101 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018
Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018
November 9, 2018 – May 5, 2019
Disrupting Craft presents the work of Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Syjuco, four artists who challenge the conventional definitions of craft by imbuing it with a renewed sense of emotional... |
| 2020_DC_SIRG_Forces | 60 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
October 16, 2020 – June 27, 2021
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Nature provides a way for these invited artists to ask what it means to be human in a world... |
| 2021_DC_SIRG_Forces | 23 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
October 16, 2020 – June 27, 2021
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Nature provides a way for these invited artists to ask what it means to be human in a world... |
| 2019_DC_SIRG_Ruffner | 45 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
June 28, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Ginny Ruffner combines traditional glass sculpture with Augmented Reality (AR) technology to create an interactive viewer experience in Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination. Visitors to the exhibition will use a... |
| 2017_DC_SIRG_Schwarcz | 54 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
March 10, 2017 – August 20, 2017
The exhibition will be the first retrospective spanning of the artist's entire career including works never seen before in public from her personal collection. June Schwarcz was the foremost enamelist in the country and known for... |
| 2021_DC_SIRG_Volume | 4 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Leo Villareal's Volume |
| 2019_DC_SIRG_Sherrill | 92 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Michael Sherrill Retrospective
Michael Sherrill Retrospective
June 28, 2019 – January 5, 2020
In his delicately rendered sculptures in clay, glass, and metal, Michael Sherrill seeks to elicit a sense of wonder from viewers, and to make them see the natural world anew. Sherrill’s most recent work reveals his naturalist’s sensitivity... |
| 2017_DC_SIRG_Murder_Hobby | 119 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Murder Is Her Hobby
Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Murder is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deathexplores the unexpected intersection between craft and forensic science. Frances Glessner... |
| 2021_DC_SIRG_Glass | 139 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: New Glass Now
New Glass Now
October 22, 2021 – March 6, 2022
New Glass Now documents the innovation and dexterity of artists, designers, and architects from around the world working in the challenging material of glass.
This global survey is designed to highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary glass making.... |
| 2017_DC_SIRG_Parallax | 34 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Parallax Gap
Parallax Gap
July 1, 2017 – February 11, 2018
Parallax Gap transforms the Renwick Gallery's Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon into a visual puzzle. This immersive, site-specific installation explores examples of interplay between craft and architecture through a ceiling-suspended structure running the... |
| 2010_DC_SIRG_Bresler | 34 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection:
A Revolution in Wood celebrates the magnificent gift of sixty-six pieces of turned and carved wood to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the noted collectors, Fleur and Charles Bresler. Works by some of the best-known wood artists in the United States... |
| 2017_DC_SIRG_Araluce | 25 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Rick Araluce: The Final Stop transforms a gallery into an abandoned underground subway platform in the artist’s first large-scale installation on the East Coast. Stepping on to the platform, visitors are enveloped in the illusion of an... |
| 2023_DC_SIRG_Sharing | 137 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
May 26, 2023 – March 31, 2024
The Renwick Invitational 2023 features artists Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan), Lily Hope (Tlingit), Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Iñupiat), Geo Neptune (Passamaquoddy), and Maggie Thompson (Fond... |
| 2022_DC_SIRG_Moment | 349 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
May 13, 2022 – April 2, 2023
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. The exhibition highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of... |
| 2016_DC_SIRG_Visions | 236 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016
"Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016"
"Visions and Revisions" presents the work of emerging artists Steven Young Lee, Kristen Morgin, Jennifer Trask and Norwood Viviano, who take innovative approaches to their chosen mediums--including raw clay, bone, ceramics, glass and metal--and who... |
| 2017_DC_SIRG_Voulkos | 59 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
April 7, 2017 – August 20, 2017
This is the first exhibition to focus on the early career of Peter Voulkos, who completely re-invented his medium of proper ceramics technique and form. Aproximately thirty-five examples from this crucial body of early work will be... |