State Fairs: Growing American Craft - Hardcover
by Mary Savig (Editor), Si American Art Museum (Editor), Amber-Brown Bear Robe (Contribution by)
Your ticket to the best state fair crafts--from Choctaw basketry to sculpted butter cows--with more than 100 amazing images of American craft art!
A Dolly Parton crop art portrait. Size-96 cowboy boots. A quilt incorporating the jean outfits of a farmer and his son. This book features more than 100 photos of extraordinary and unconventional crafts from state and tribal fairs, including needlework, basketry, ceramics, crop art, butter sculpture, Nordic Rosemaling, and Spanish Colonial embroidery. In essays that explore the history of crafting at state fairs from the 1840s to present day, contributors reflect on:MARY SAVIG is the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. She is co-curator of the 2022 exhibition "Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women at the Smithsonian American Art Museum" and curator of the Renwick's 50th anniversary exhibition, "This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World" (2022). SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the present, made in the United States.
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