This summer the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, “Connections” returns to view, featuring 80+ objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world. The installation includes iconic favorites alongside new acquisitions, some of which will be displayed at the museum for the first time. Nora Atkinson, The Lloyd Herman Acting Curator-in-Charge, selected the objects and conceived the innovative presentation.

This summer the permanent collection returns to the Renwick Gallery with a dynamic new presentation of 80+ objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.

Nine leading contemporary artists—Jennifer Angus, Chakaia Booker, Gabriel Dawe, Tara Donovan, Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman, John Grade, Maya Lin, and Leo Villareal—each took over different galleries in the building, creating site-specific installations inspired by the Renwick.