One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

This quilt, created by Carol St. Clair Johnson of Albuquerque, NM, incorporates the more than 600 blue ribbons she’s won at New Mexico state fairs since 1981, with the state’s Zia sun symbol in the center.

‘Corndog Vase’ (2023), ‘Hot Dog’ (2000), posted earlier: