Results for "Smithsonian Craft Show"
Design + Archives: Craft Multiples
- Date: May 10, 2016
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look at the design and style of selected letterhead from entries into the Renwick Gallery's exhibition, Craft Multiples.
Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals
- Date: December 20, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.
Crafting the Archives Way!
- Date: December 8, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kathleen Varnell
- Date: September 15, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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50 Years of Folklife
- Date: June 29, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.
The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths
- Date: October 26, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.
Holiday Crafting: Digging Into our Archives
- Date: December 15, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: A series of holiday-related crafts available from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nora Atkinson
- Date: August 8, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator of Craft Nora Atkinson, Smithsonian American Art Museum, researches the role of the handmade in modern culture and was responsible for bringing the large scale art of Burning Man to the nation's capital for the first time. #Groundbreaker
Revisiting Renwick
- Date: January 27, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.
A Crafty Way to Support the Smithsonian
- Date: May 14, 2019
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.
Happy Holidays from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives!
- Date: December 25, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1865–1931), a pioneer in microphotography, captured detailed images of thousands of individual snowflakes. His photography and publications advanced the scientific record of snow crystals and their many types. Five hundred of these photographs are part of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives collections. Looking for a fun activity for the whole
Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency
- Date: May 26, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.