Gloria Kenyon

Soak up the summer sun with a photography-inspired craft you can do at home

Enjoy an easy and fun craft using recycled materials and plant the seed for a greener future

Celebrate the splendor of spring with cherry blossom crafts you can make at home

SAAM’s Family Zone has crafts and activities for the whole family

Make an upcycled DIY wreath with just a few simple materials

A special Handi-hour program that explores the connections between craft and suffrage.

An Alexander Calder mobile in time for the artist's 122nd birthday.

Celebrate Dad with an artful, home-crafted card

Mom always thought you were a little crafty. Surprise her with a hand-made flower...or two.

Bring nature indoors in this easy-to-do craft inspired by explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt

Instructions for an easy cherry blossom craft to make at home

Public programs coordinator Gloria Kenyon revisits the influential Objects: USA exhibition on its 50th anniversary

Loving this crisp fall weather or wishing for the warmth of summer? Either way, this Handi-hour has you covered. Using dried autumn leaves or pressed wild flowers, come and make your own decorative candle or a bookmark. Come to the Renwick Gallery for Novermber's Handi-Hour.

Join us on Thursday, September 22nd from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Renwick Gallery for our early fall Handi-hour.

For May's Handi-hour at the Renwick Gallery you'll start by making your own loom using scrap cardboard from all those Amazon boxes you have lying around.

Spring is in the air at our March Handi-hour, and we're inspired by Jennifer Angus' In the Midnight Garden as well as the bugs and blooms that are coming to life as the weather warms up. Check out our videos to learn how to make a brightly colored felted wool brooch to accessorize your new spring outfit. And you'll learn how to make bug magnets from recycled bottle caps.

February's Handi-hour is sold out, but don't despair! You can get your own private tutoring session with our videos right here. This month we're making string art with map pins, cork boards and embroidery floss.

Handi-hour on Friday, November 13th is SOLD OUT!

SAAM's Handi-hour is back on Thursday, July 23rd in the Luce Foundation Center for another fun evening of craft-making! Check out the video below with program coordinators Katie Crooks and Gloria Kenyon for a preview of this month's craft.

In Case 53B of the Luce Foundation Center sit four plates that first attracted my attention when I was a graduate student a few years ago. I was drawn to these by the figure of a boy, who looked very much like a famous painting, yet strangely manipulated. I also thought it odd that these plates were in the craft section, yet these white porcelain discs looked nothing like the plates I had been taught were craft while earning a degree in pottery.