State Fairs
Growing American Craft
$61.36
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2025
Summary
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 em…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588348005 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1588348008 |
| Author: | Mary Savig |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 768g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 506mm x 212mm |
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“The cover art of State Fairs: Growing American Craft is the first hint that this book is something special. It’s a photo of a piece of crop art—an assemblage made entirely from seeds that is intended to help promote a state’s crops. A seed map in the book’s first pages shows that the assemblage’s cow is made out of mung beans and yellow mustard seeds, and the roosters are mainly pink peppercorns and red lentils. This blend of down-home and over-the-top is what makes the arts, crafts and objects in State Fairs so enthralling…State Fairs is an exhaustive history of a category of art-making that is both essential to American culture and underappreciated for its historical impact.”
About The Author
Mary Savig
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).
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