Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
State Fairs: Growing American Craft

State Fairs: Growing American Craft

Savig, Mary
Si American Art Museum
Bear Robe, Amber-Brown

Hardcover

General ArtGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1588348008
ISBN13: 9781588348005
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.66 Width: 10.27 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
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 embroidery. In essays that explore the history of crafting at state fairs from the 1840s to present day, contributors reflect on:

  • The way fairgrounds connect people through craft
  • How the fair provided a public platform for women's achievements
  • The significance of Indigenous fairs
  • 4-H and youth participation
  • The relationship between fairs and studio craft
  • Crafts in unexpected places, including tractor and machine halls, horticulture and dairy displays, rodeos, and horse races

Also from

Savig, Mary

View All

Also in

General Art

View All