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Michelle Obama Celebrates Design Awards with White House Ceremony

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the 2010 National Design Awards Wednesday, July 21, with a White House ceremony for the winners and finalists of the awards…

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Joins with Nike and Make Something!!

NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will join with Nike and Make Something!!, an organization founded by artistic curator Aaron Rose to introduce kids to new creative opportunities in the arts, to present a serie…

Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of 11th Annual National Design Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 11th annual National Design Awards program, now in its second decade. Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Mog…

Largest Festival of Disabled Artists Opens in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, DC (AP).- Jesse Higman’s paintbrush isn’t a brush at all.
With limited mobility in his hands because of a car crash 27 years ago, this
Seattle-based artist has created a painting method all his own. To control his
colors, Higman …

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