Lauren Mabry

THIS PRESENT MOMENT

GILES

By Mary Savig, Norn Atkinson and Anya Montiel

2022

Lauren Mabry’s “Glazescape (Green Shade)” is featured along with more than two hundred recently acquired artworks to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection.

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. Accompanying a 2022 exhibition of the same name, it features artists’ stories of resilience, methods of activism, and highlights craft’s ability to spark essential conversations about race, gender, and representation.

This book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, the nation’s preeminent center for the enjoyment of American craft. It honors the history of the American studio craft movement while also introducing progressive contemporary narratives.