Handwork: Contemporary Craft

November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

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The Renwick Gallery showcases more than 100 works of contemporary craft, including recent acquisitions, celebrating the skill and ideas of makers working by hand.

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Craft & Design

Materials, Methods and Meanings: Craft in the Archives of American Art

At Archives of American Art

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The Archives of American Art draws on its collections of letters, photographs, sketches and papers to show how American craft artists made their work and what it meant

Photography

Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting at the National Portrait Gallery

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The National Portrait Gallery celebrates five decades of collecting photography with more than 100 portraits, including a recently acquired 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison.

Craft & Design

Woven and Cast: Chinese Textiles and Japanese Metalwork from the Shirley Z. Johnson Collection

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Woven and Cast showcases Chinese textiles and Japanese metalwork from the Shirley Z. Johnson Collection at the National Museum of Asian Art.

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Renwick Gallery

1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20006

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