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Women in Costume Design
Twirl through theater, opera, and film with costume designs from Cooper Hewitt's collection.
Read Time
9 minutes
Posted By
Matthew Kennedy
Date
March 19, 2025
Against a light orange background, a figure is drawn from illustrative black lines filled in with blues, yellows, whites, and browns. The figure consists of a brown-skinned man in a blue shirt whose body is entwined with the form of a chair, with his arms morphing into the chair arms and the two entities sharing legs.
We Are Seated: Tschabalala Self’s “Sounding Board”
“A chair always implies a figure, even if no figure is occupying it.”
Read Time
7 minutes
Posted By
Matthew Kennedy
Date
February 27, 2025
On a black background, white parallel vertical lines repeat across the image. In the middle of the band of lines, text reads National Design Awards, 25 years.
Cooper Hewitt Celebrates 25 Years of the National Design Awards
and Announces 2025 Winners
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced it will celebrate 25 years of the prestigious National Design Awards program and named the 2025 Award winners. Launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards and its associated public programs seek to increase national awareness of the impact of design in everyday life. 
Posted By
Laurie Bohlk
Date
January 28, 2025
From Idea to Engraving: Stradanus and the Printmaking Process
Explore the printmaking process—from artist sketch to engraved sheet—in 16th-century Europe.
Read Time
8 minutes
Posted By
Jamie Kwan
Date
January 22, 2025