From WAY* to YAY**, artist Shantell Martin translated her intricate, dynamic drawing style into whimsical textiles in the hope of making someone’s day. The post Shantell Martin: WAY* YAY** first appeared on Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
In observance of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, Cooper Hewitt offers an illustrated and annotated list of projects drawn from the exhibition and publication Making Home that address queer themes or are by queer creators. The post Making Home / Pride Edit first appeared on Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne,” an exhibition featuring Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s factories. On view from Nov. 21 through spring 2026, the exhibition brings together more than 70 large-format photographs captured by Payne over a decade-long photographic journey to learn more about the craft of both industrial and artisanal making in the United States. The po...| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A conversation on building collaboration across space, time, place, and scale through Indigenous Hawaiian architecture. For the final Session of the Making Home Saturday Series, a conversation on building collaboration across space, time, place, and scale through Indigenous Hawaiian architecture with architects Sean Connelly (Kanaka Hawai’i / Ilocano) and Dominic Leong (Kanaka Maoli) with filmmaker... The post Making Home Saturday Series: Building Home (Session 4) first appeared on Cooper H...| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A presentation on water advocacy and rethinking environmental design systems for preservation. Explore water advocacy and rethinking environmental design systems for preservation with Two-Spirit poet, artist, and activist Reverend Houston Cypress (Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida), canoe maker Daniel Tommie (Seminole Tribe of Florida), water rights activist Betty Osceola (Panther| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the appointment of Steve Miller to its board of trustees.| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Over five years ago, 2025 National Design Award winner in Interior Design Little Wing Lee began work on the design for the interiors of Ray Harlem, a new building designed by architect Frida Escobedo in partnership with Handel Architects in Harlem, New York. The residential portion of the building will open its doors in Spring| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired a major collection of work by the designer Tobias Wong (1974–2010). Often referred to as the “enfant terrible” of the design world, Wong’s influential body of work merged conceptual art, performance and product design. Through a gift of more than 50 objects from Wong’s family, friends and collaborators—including products, prototypes, digital designs and ephemera—the collection provides a new perspective on a critical voice in...| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The Making Home Saturday Series is a quarterly program that pairs special guests with participants from Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The program’s two-part sessions include conversations on exhibition-related themes, including systems, belonging, memory, care, and building, as well as the contemporary concepts of home related to race, class, migration, climate, and technology. For Session 1,| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The Making Home Saturday Series is a quarterly program that pairs special guests with participants from Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The program’s two-part sessions include conversations on exhibition-related themes, including systems, belonging, memory, care, and building, as well as the contemporary concepts of home related to race, class, migration, climate, and technology. In Session 2,| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The Making Home lecture series at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union presents four free public lectures featuring Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial exhibition participants paired with designers, artists, professionals, and Cooper Union faculty discussing the exhibition’s exploration of home and its relation to design, data, justice, history, and building. For| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
In conjunction with our latest exhibition, Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, we invite Cooper Hewitt members to join us for an evening with award-winning designers and weavers Helena Hernmarck and Elizabeth Whelan. In conversation with Acting Director of Curatorial, Matilda McQuaid, Hernmarck and Whelan will discuss the innovations and inspirations which define their practices.| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The Making Home Lecture Series at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union presents four free public lectures featuring Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial exhibition participants paired with designers, artists, professionals, and Cooper Union faculty discussing the exhibition’s exploration of home and its relation to design, data, justice, history, and building. For| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Working across film, photography, and sculpture, Amie Siegel investigates value, cultural ownership, and image-making. In Vues/Views, her new double-sided work on view in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, 19th-century French panoramic wallpapers become a prism through which threads of power, privilege, race, and class are performed, both within the papers themselves and in the places they appear| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The Making Home lecture series at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union presents four free public lectures featuring Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial exhibition participants paired with designers, artists, professionals, and Cooper Union faculty discussing the exhibition’s exploration of home and its relation to design, data, justice, history, and building. For| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Take a deep dive into the creative process and extraordinary designs of midcentury designer Alexander Girard (1907-1993). Join designer Todd Oldham and writer Kiera Coffee in a discussion around their new publication, Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In (Phaidon, 2024), with Susan Brown, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Textiles. Brown will highlight Cooper Hewitt’s| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Session two of the inaugural Making Home Saturday Series features Chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians Brad KillsCrow, Maria Nicanor, Director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Kevin Young, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The session explores the central role that community and organizational leaders play in| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
In celebration of the opening of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt presents session one of the inaugural Making Home Saturday Series program. Curators Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson introduce the exhibition’s themes, participants, and development, and explore how the exhibition’s diverse contemporary perspectives and approaches to home across| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Get to know wallcoverings (and a shopping bag) by LGBTQIA+ designers and artists in pop art and 1960s aesthetics.| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
When dealing with experimental materials, such as algae and other bioplastics, conservators must consider the benefits of display with potentially unexpected outcomes.| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
