In conjunction with the current exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, please join a contemporary textile designer and weaver who is equally acclaimed for her experimental approach to materials: Suzanne Tick.  In an illustrated conversation with Susan Brown, Cooper Hewitt’s Acting Head of Textiles and co-curator of the exhibition, the program will consider Tick's designs, how she has helped build sustainability into the contract textile industry, and how her handweaving practice intersects with her commercial designs.

In celebration of New York Textile Month, join members of the New York Guild of Handweavers to see and experience the craft of handweaving at this drop-in event.

Design Hive is a paid, youth-led initiative at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. High school juniors and seniors dive deep into design objects and processes to develop their own collaborative projects. Along the way, they will learn how designers move from an initial idea to final design! 

Join us for a virtual tour of Cooper Hewitt’s current exhibition, Give Me A Sign: The Language of Symbols, co-led by curator Emily Orr and Accessibility & Inclusion Manager Kirsten Sweeney.

Join us for a tour of Cooper Hewitt’s current exhibition, Give Me A Sign: The Language of Symbols, co-led by curator Emily Orr and Accessibility & Inclusion Manager Kirsten Sweeney in collaboration with the NYPL Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library.

Join modern textile and fashion historian Leigh Wishner for this illustrated talk on the extensive and extraordinary contributions Dorothy Liebes made to midcentury fashion design. Wishner will provide an overview of Liebes’s work and pervasive influence on fashion, how her research on Liebes contributes to the history of American fashion design, and explore some ways in which Liebes’s influence is still felt in the fashion industry today. 

Join us to discover how the Symbol Sourcebook has challenged us to look at the importance of symbols now and explore their evolution and future. Tour the Give Me a Sign exhibition and design your own symbol with curator Emily M. Orr. Explore selections from Cooper Hewitt’s Henry Dreyfuss Archive with former curatorial fellow Arpie Gennetian in the Drue Heinz Study Center. Enjoy this unique opportunity to dive deeper into design history through drawings, writings, and more!

Join Cooper Hewitt and our Museum Mile neighbors for the 45th annual Museum Mile Festival. The doors to each museum will be open to the public for free throughout the event.

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.