Mingei International Museum

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions 

This Is Our Story: American Vernacular Art from the Kaplan Collection | July 23, 2022 – February 26, 2023
This Is Our Story features works by self-taught artists from various parts of the United States who created their work for personal use or for their families, for self-expression and self-representation, and to participate in the joy of making.

Toying with Design: Play Inspires the Everyday | September 10, 2022 – February 26, 2023
Toying with Design explores how play can inspire designers and architects to create toy-like, functional everyday objects.

Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration | October 28, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration is one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form.

A World of Beads | November 19, 2022 – August 27, 2023
A World of Beads features highlights from Mingei’s bead collection and explores the materials from which beads are made.

Upcoming Exhibitions 

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee | March 25, 2023 – October 15, 2023
In this exhibition, guest curator and fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn looks for a way to make the unfathomable figure of refugees around our world more tangible by marking a displaced person with panels of hand-sewn stitches.