Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing! In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
In this curator-guided tour of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, visitors will explore some of the exhibition’s 25 original commissions, highlighting design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established...
In this curator-guided tour of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, visitors will explore some of the exhibition’s 25 original commissions, highlighting design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established...
Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing! In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
Join us this summer for hands-on activities inspired by Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Families are invited to sketch, print, or build together. On Wednesday, July 30, inspired by the abundant textile patterns in Nicole Crowder and Hadiya Williams’s dining room installation The Offering, design your own placemat! Create stamps using foam and cardboard and print with fabric paint on linen! Take your placemat home to use at your table.
Join us this summer for hands-on activities inspired by Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Families are invited to sketch, print, or build together. On Wednesday, July 16, try out fun drawing prompts and sketch in the museum’s garden or cool off and be inspired by the mansion’s interiors. Create your own Cooper Hewitt postcard with what makes New York City home to you and mail it to a friend!
Join us this summer for hands-on activities inspired by Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Families are invited to model, sketch, print, or build together with creative projects related to the exhibition. On Wednesday, July 2nd, discover how architects creatively tackle issues like weather, materials, and tiny spaces. Then, try your hand at architectural mini-challenges with clay, cardboard, and other materials inspired by the exhibition.
Join Cooper Hewitt for the next Making Home Saturday Series where we consider the hidden homes of our DNA with artist and biohacker Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg. For Session 2, enjoy a live performance of “Correspondence Song,” a musical version of Dewey-Hagborg’s exchanges with medical institutions and third parties as she attempts to track down her blood samples. The performance, will include voice and acoustic instruments performed by composer Niki Main, Danielle Buonaiuto, Jules Biber, and Jessica Tsang. The performance will take place on the second floor of the museum after a presentation by Dewey-Hagborg in Session 1. It is standing room only and first come first served.
Join Cooper Hewitt for the next Making Home Saturday Series where we consider the hidden homes of our DNA with artist and biohacker Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg.
In Session 1, Dewey-Hagborg will discuss her installation and soundtrack for Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores the architectural and cultural footprint of so-called “biobanks.” Dewey-Hagborg will tell the story of her own investigative efforts to discover her “blood spot card”—the blood drawn at birth from every newborn to be screened for disorders. After her presentation, Dewey-Hagborg will be joined by biologist Katayoun Chamany for a brief conversation.
In celebration of the recently released publication Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century, join artists and designers Robert Earl Paige, Renée Stout, Jomo Tariku, and Hadiya Williams in conversation with Michelle Joan Wilkinson, curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, as they explore ideas about home through the lens of heritage, culture, and design. The speakers will reflect on their experiences of making home through art, design, and through cultivating spaces for the nourishment of self and community. In their work, which includes textiles, altars, tablescapes, and furniture, we find examples of how each uniquely addresses refuge, ancestry, and interconnection in home living spaces and the objects they create.
Join us as we celebrate summer and raise a glass with Cooper Hewitt members and friends. Not a member? Join and get your invitation today. 5:00-6:00 P.M. Exhibition Viewing 6:00-8:00 P.M. Celebrate summer in the garden with refreshments and music. RSVP BY THURSDAY, JUNE 26 All ages welcome, rain or shine. Festive garden attire encouraged....
Redesigning the Sexual Assault Kit Please be advised this program contains content related to sexual assault. In 2021, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of American History, with support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, co-acquired Martha “Marty” Goddard’s “Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination.” Goddard engaged a community...
Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing! In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing! In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
In June, celebrate Pride by designing your own placemats to welcome loved ones to your table. Draw inspiration from works in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, including the PIN-UP film Dream Homes, which tells the story of three LGBTQIA+ communities exploring daily life and ensuring everyone feels at home, and The Offering, by Nicole Crowder and Hadiya Williams, which explores how textiles and table settings can help express who we are and provide a sense of belonging.
