Celebrate your pride by designing a t-shirt that expresses yourself and the message of inclusion. Get inspired by pride-related designs from Cooper Hewitt’s and the Smithsonian’s collections.
Celebrate your pride by designing a t-shirt that expresses yourself and the message of inclusion. Get inspired by pride-related designs from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian.
In this guided tour of Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols, visitors will discover the stories behind symbols from the STOP sign to the laugh-cry emoji and learn about how symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. As communication tools designed to break language barriers, symbols instruct, protect, entertain, connect, and communicate beliefs. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Emily Orr, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts.
Come tour the galleries and learn about how conservators work to preserve the collections for future generations. Specific examples of pieces that require special handling or treatment will be highlighted and the challenges of exhibiting in an historic mansion discussed. Questions about the conservation process will be welcomed. Tour led by Sarah Barack, Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator.
Celebrate Pride Month with Cooper Hewitt! At Drag Story Hour, an artist and educator will read a picture book, get you singing, and moving to your own beat. This fun and fabulous program will celebrate all forms of difference and give you confidence to express yourself. Dress up, dress comfortably or dress as you are every day. After the story hour, design a wearable button to take home inspired by a symbol that expresses who you are.
Celebrate Pride Month with Cooper Hewitt! At Drag Story Hour, an artist will read a picture book, get you singing, and moving to your own beat. Session 1 is designed to be a sensory-friendly environment; it will be held in a quieter space with lower lighting and a smaller group of participants than session 2, and there will be movement breaks throughout. This fun and fabulous program will celebrate all forms of difference and give you confidence to express yourself. Dress up, dress comfortably or dress as you are every day. After the story hour, design a wearable button to take home inspired by a symbol that expresses who you are.
In celebration of Pride Month, join designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and architecture historian Joshua Mardell, editors of the recent publication Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories, to discuss why queer spaces are so important and how they compiled the diverse and international selection of spaces included in the book.
In this guided exhibition tour, visitors will explore the groundbreaking data visualizations W. E. B. Du Bois created for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. On loan from the Library of Congress, the hand-drawn diagrams used shape, line, and color to showcase the success Black Americans had achieved despite facing pervasive racism in the United States and the global community.
Join us for a conversation with data journalist Mona Chalabi and curators Christina L. De León and Devon Zimmerman to celebrate the closing of Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair. The exhibition places decorative arts from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection in dialogue with 20 innovative data visualizations that Du Bois created for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair to explore how design can both reveal and mask dynamics of power and equity. Through the lens of Chalabi’s contemporary data visualizations, the panelists will discuss the enduring legacy of Du Bois’ work and data as a source of power in today’s world.
