Final Days to Experience Craft Like Never Before!

Final days to experience This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World. Closes April 2.

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Last Chance to Experience Contemporary Craft Like Never Before

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Free | Final Day to Visit April 2
Renwick Gallery
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street, NW

“This Present Moment... is a measure of how far craft as a movement has pushed to embrace contemporary concepts about identity and storytelling.” — Kriston Capps, The Washington Post

Don’t miss your chance to experience This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, showcasing the dynamic landscape of American craft today. The exhibition highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism—showing us a more relational and empathetic world.

Activating the full building, This Present Moment features 171 artworks from SAAM’s extensive holdings of modern and contemporary craft in a range of craft mediums from fiber and ceramics to glass and mixed media. Centering the contributions of artists who are women, people of color, and from other marginalized communities, the exhibition showcases contemporary artworks that push the boundaries of what we interpret the handmade to be in the 21st century. This Present Moment marks the 50th anniversary of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, nation’s premier museum dedicated to American craft.

Plan Your Visit

Visitors take a photo in front of a portrait quilt that hangs on the wall.

Detailed view of a sculpture in the shape of a human. It has red, blue, and yellow paint on the face.

Can’t Make it to the Galleries? Discover This Present Moment Online

Visit SAAM’s website to view the artwork, read stories about artists and artworks from the exhibition, explore artists’ studios through virtual studio tours, and listen to fascinating discussions as 10 featured artists explore the field of contemporary craft for the Renwick 50th anniversary symposium.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is able to create and share experiences like these thanks to funding from generous supporters like you.

Thank you for ensuring that American art is available to all.

Donate to Support SAAM

Exhibition Credit: This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World is organized by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Generous support is provided by Carl and Jan Fisher, Shelby and Fred Gans, the James Renwick Alliance for Craft, and Ann Kaplan and Robert Fippinger.

Additional support is provided by Alturas Foundation, Elizabeth Broun Curatorial Endowment, Sharon and Bob Buchanan, Sheila Burke, Billings and John Cay, Faye and Robert Davidson Jr., DLR Group, Elizabeth and James Eisenstein, Mary Anne Fray, Cary J. Frieze, The Galena-Yorktown Foundation, Michael and Heather Greenbaum, Chris G. Harris, Cecily and Bannus Hudson, Maureen and Gene Kim, Colleen and John Kotelly, Joseph P. Logan, Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman, Eleanor T. Rosenfeld, Dorothy Saxe in memory of George Saxe, Maggie and Dick Scarlett, Barbara Tober, Judith S. Weisman, Myra and Harold Weiss, Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth, and Todd Wingate and Steven Cason.

Image Credits:
Installation photography of This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022, Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; All photos by Albert Ting

Photo by Paul Morigi

Detail of Wanxin Zhang, Warrior with Color Face, Photos by Albert Ting

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