Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join artist and designer Jessie French as we explore the world of bioplastics. Designers all over the world are working on solutions to the problem of plastic pollution, and Jessie’s work explores plastics made from algae! Participants will work with this algae bioplastic material, molding their own keychain or small object to take home.
Join us for a tour of the iconic Carnegie Mansion, the former home of industrial magnate Andrew Carnegie and current home of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join us for a jewelry design workshop with Vanessa Miller of BQMNY. Each participant will create their own wire wrapped ring with a selection of crystal beads, learning all about the principles of jewelry along the way.
Collaborate as a family and create a stage design for a favorite song! Play the part of a set designer and choose shapes, colors, and imagery to evoke a mood and convey the song’s message visually. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.
Collaborate as a family and create a stage design for a favorite song! Play the part of a set designer and choose shapes, colors, and imagery to evoke a mood and convey the song’s message visually. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.
Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join us for a graphic design workshop inspired by the exhibition Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols. Participants will meet multidisciplinary designer Kristian Mentor of NULL NYC, who will lead participants in creating their own logo or brand design. Snacks and an exhibition tour will also be offered.
In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.
In celebration of the final weeks of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, join the exhibition’s curators, conservators, and book contributors for a series of presentations offering new research on Liebes’s career and work from a range of perspectives. Topics will include Liebes’s experimental approach to color and materials; conservation...
In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.
