{"product_id":"state-fairs-isbn-9781588348005","title":"State Fairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eYour ticket to the best state fair crafts—from Choctaw basketry to sculpted butter cows—with more than 100 amazing images of American craft art!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe way fairgrounds connect people through craft\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the fair provided a public platform for women’s achievements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe significance of Indigenous fairs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e4-H and youth participation\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe relationship between fairs and studio craft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrafts in unexpected places, including tractor and machine halls, horticulture and dairy displays, rodeos, and horse races\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom kitschy to tender, the highlighted crafts and the local and regional traditions behind them create a vibrant portrait of American culture. Come one, come all! \u003ci\u003eState Fairs \u003c\/i\u003ehas a little something for everyone.\u003cb\u003eBOOKPAGE\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eThe cover art of \u003ci\u003eState Fairs: Growing American Craft\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eState Fairs\u003c\/i\u003e so enthralling...\u003ci\u003eState Fairs\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhaustive history of a category of art-making that is both essential to American culture and underappreciated for its historical impact.\"\u003cb\u003eMARY SAVIG \u003c\/b\u003eis 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). \u003cb\u003eSMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM \u003c\/b\u003eholds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the present, made in the United States.","brand":"Smithsonian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233582428389,"sku":"NP9781588348005","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781588348005.jpg?v=1767737278","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/state-fairs-isbn-9781588348005","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}