Color the Past: Historic Photo Embroidery
• April 13, 2023

Examine rare needlework pieces in Dumbarton House’s collection and then try your hand at a few different stitches at our workshop on photograph embroidery. Send in a picture to be […]

Cherokee Days Festival
• March 31, 2023

Visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and enjoy the three-day festival featuring storytelling, traditional flute music, traditional games, demonstrations, music, dance performances, and hands-on activities in the […]

Wreath Workshop: Historic Greenery
• December 18, 2022

Celebrate the holidays with your own wreath. Craft a beautiful, historic decoration with your own festive mix of fresh-cut greens from heirloom plants like holly, pine, cedar, magnolia and cypress. […]

Wreath Workshop: Historic Greenery
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Celebrate the holidays with your own wreath. Craft a beautiful, historic decoration with your own festive mix of fresh-cut greens from heirloom plants like holly, pine, cedar, magnolia and cypress. […]

Wreath Workshop: Historic Greenery
• December 10, 2022

Celebrate the holidays with your own wreath. Craft a beautiful, historic decoration with your own festive mix of fresh-cut greens from heirloom plants like holly, pine, cedar, magnolia and cypress. […]

Wreath Workshop: Historic Greenery
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Celebrate the holidays with your own wreath. Craft a beautiful, historic decoration with your own festive mix of fresh-cut greens from heirloom plants like holly, pine, cedar, magnolia and cypress. […]

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art: Julia Bryan-Wilson: Embellished Legacies
• November 16, 2022

Scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson considers how women of color artists like Pacita Abad and Rosie Lee Tompkins have used embellishment as a strategy to blur the lines between function and decor. […]

Fall Frolic
• October 29, 2022

Join us for some FREE family Halloween fun at Glen Echo Park for FALL FROLIC on Saturday, October 29! Halloween-themed craft activity bags for children and their families to do […]

Wine and Design Virtual Handi-hour: The Stamp Edition
• September 23, 2021

“Errors,” “Freaks,” and “Oddities” are all terms for postage with printing mistakes that can make stamps exceptionally valuable. Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Postal Museum for […]

Dori Desautel Broudy: Works Designed to Elicit a Smile
• June 3, 2021

Sponsored Post   Dori Desautel Broudy first began simultaneously drawing and narrating stories as a little girl. She often created stories about activities she participated in like dance, soccer and […]