Created by Corey Alston of Charleston, SC, this is an example of Gullah basketry, made from sweetgrass by the Gullah people — descendants of enslaved Africans — in the South Carolina Low Country since the 17th century,

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.

‘‘Tapestry Weave Rag Jerga’ (1994), posted earlier: