What’s On

Join designer Gina Gregorio for a hands-on workshop exploring the power of repetition through collaborative block printing. Drawing inspiration from repeating patterns found throughout Cooper Hewitt’s collection, participants will use custom-made printing blocks to create dynamic patterned fabric.  View full event details here.

Join landscape architects and 2025 National Design Award winners TERREMOTO as they discuss their newly released principles of radical gardening, a practice-wide commitment to creating “omni-positive” gardens that are deeply empathetic, ecologically restorative, and thoughtfully designed to support all living things at every scale. TERREMOTO is a landscape architecture design studio with offices in Los Angeles and Berkeley California founded in 2012 with the intention of building gardens and landscapes that were explorations and investigations into ideas and culture. They create site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while challenging historical and contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions. Spanning projects of diverse scales and typologies, TERREMOTO's portfolio reflects a belief that gardens can respond to the needs of all, and that this expansiveness gives rise to novel forms of beauty. Kasey Toomey and Story Wiggins from TERREMOTO will be joined by Billy Fleming, interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice and design, for a conversation about how they translate their values into practice through landscapes that embrace process-based stewardship, closed-loop systems, and care for both human and non-human communities. Together, they will explore how gardens can serve as powerful tools for imagining a radical future built and tended with love. View full event details here.

Explore this month’s featured exhibition at your own pace, with opportunities to discover, connect, and engage with the objects and ideas on display. View full event details here.

In this session, we’ll sketch in the galleries of the Design Across Time exhibition, which explores a new thematic take on Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. The exhibition introduces selections from our vast repository of historic and contemporary design, including significant works newly brought out of storage, recent acquisitions on public display for the first time, and canonical objects of American and global design history. View full event details here.

Turn paper into fabric with momigami, the traditional Japanese technique of kneading and crumpling paper until it’s durable, flexible, and cloth-like. Make your own momigami pouch or create a small vest for a favorite stuffed toy. View full event details here.

In this curator-guided tour of Design Across Time: Exploring the Smithsonian's Design Collection, visitors will explore a new thematic take on Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. The exhibition introduces selections from our vast repository of historic and contemporary design, including significant works newly brought out of storage, recent acquisitions on public display for the first time, and canonical objects of American and global design history. View full event details here.

Coinciding with Design Across Time—Cooper Hewitt’s current exhibition showcasing just 125 works from its collection of 215,000+ objects—join us for an inside look at the recently opened V&A East Storehouse. In this edition of Making the Museum, hear from architect Elizabeth Diller and curators Brendan Cormier and Catherine Ince, the team behind the V&A East Storehouse, in conversation with Cooper Hewitt's Director Maria Nicanor. Founded in 1852, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) now has over 2.5 million objects located across six sites in England. The V&A East Storehouse in London is one of the latest and most ambitious in which the public is invited into the museum’s collection archive and storage. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the building is home to 250,000 objects, 350,000 books, and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collection of fashion, textiles, furniture, theater and performance, metalwork, ceramics, glass, sculpture, architecture, paintings, and product design. View full event details here.

Inspired by the exhibition Frederic Church in Jamaica, create your own botanical prints using gel plates. See botanical sketches made by Church on long treks in Jamaica’s majestic landscape. Using ferns and other botanical pressings, create your own gel plate prints to capture and bring home the exquisite details of nature. View full event details here.

Come with us to the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library for a visual description and tactile tour and workshop. View full event details here.