CRAFT EVENTS IN DC

a host of craft events and exhibitions going on the same week as spring craft weekend! 

Traveling to DC for Spring Craft Weekend with JRACraft? Be sure to schedule in a few extra days–there is so much Craft happening! 

EVENTS

Smithsonian Craft Show
April 23 - 27, 2025 | 10am - 5pm
National Building Museum 
(JRACraft members get a discount on admission. Email [email protected] to find out more!) 

Sergei Isupov talk “Art Across Borders”
April 23 | 5:30pm - 7pm
Estonian Embassy

We Gather at the Edge:
Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists
April 25 | Open House 11am - 2pm
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Opening Reception: Moments from Eternity with Sergei Isupov, April 25 | 6pm - 8pm
District Clay Center

EXHIBITIONS

​Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles,
February 22 – June 14
A Tale of Two Houses, August 24 – May 17, 2025
Visionary Textile Scholars and Their Archives,
​ June 1 – April 5, 2025
Textile Museum, Washington, DC

DY Begay Tapestry: Sublime Light,
September 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC 

Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork,
March 2, 2024  – Jan 11, 2026
Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC 

Hyunsuk Erickson, Arianne Ohara, and Jeffrey Berg,
April 5– April 27, 2025
Hillyer Gallery, Washington, DC

Hillary Steel: Interwoven, Weaver of Tenancingo,
​February 27 – May , 2025
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC

For more events in the greater DC area and beyond, check out our craft news, where you can find the latest listings.  

CRAFT NEWS

Myrah Brown Green, In My Akuabaa Form, 2000, cotton fabric and cotton batt, 95 × 86 in. (241.3 × 218.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, 2023.40.19,
​© 2000, Myrah Brown Green.

Are you traveling to join us in DC for Spring Craft Weekend? Reach out to us at [email protected] to receive information on discounted accommodation options with our travel partners.