# Event Details

- **Event Name**: (Virtual) Author Talk Online with Mary Savig: Your Ticket to the Best State Fair Crafts 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 03 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a fascinating discussion with Smithsonian Curator Mary Savig on the history and significance of craft at state fairs—from blue-ribbon quilts to sculpted butter cows, and so much more!

REGISTER: https://libraryc.org/wrightlibrary/161260/register

A Dolly Parton crop art portrait. Size-96 cowboy boots. A button quilt. State Fairs: Growing American Craft features more than 100 photos of extraordinary and unconventional crafts from state and tribal fairs, including needlework, basketry, jewelry, ceramics, crop art, butter sculpture, and saddles.

About the Author

Mary Savig is The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.

 

About Author Talks Online
Wright Library is proud to present Author Talks Online, a partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and funded by the Wright Library Foundation. This virtual program series features 2-3 online bestselling-author events per month which are streamed to patrons of member libraries. These are live events with interactive Q&A sessions where participants can ask questions directly to the author.

Register in advance to receive reminders of the live event and have the opportunity to submit questions to the interviewer beforehand. Can't make the live event? All programs are recorded and archived online where you can stream past programs on demand.

Archived events and more upcoming virtual author talks can all be found at Wright Library Author Talks Online.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oakwood-ohio/virtual-author-talk-online-with-mary-savig-your-ticket-to-the-best-state-fair-crafts/200030087614734
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Oakwood, Ohio
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 1776 Far Hills Ave, Oakwood, OH 45419-2531, United States, Oakwood, Ohio

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is (Virtual) Author Talk Online with Mary Savig: Your Ticket to the Best State Fair Crafts  being held?
  - **A:** (Virtual) Author Talk Online with Mary Savig: Your Ticket to the Best State Fair Crafts  takes place on Wed, 03 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 03 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Online event, 1776 Far Hills Ave, Oakwood, OH 45419-2531, United States, Oakwood, Ohio.
- **Q**: Who is organizing (Virtual) Author Talk Online with Mary Savig: Your Ticket to the Best State Fair Crafts ?
  - **A:** (Virtual) Author Talk Online with Mary Savig: Your Ticket to the Best State Fair Crafts  is organized by Wright Memorial Public Library.

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