Created by Adriana Griffin of Roseville, CA, the pendant in this necklace depicts the delta smelt, a fish endemic to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, swimming among the stems of orange poppies, the California state flower.

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.

‘Friendship Quilt’ (1940), posted earlier: