Festival of the Building Arts
October 9, 2010
10:00 am
- 4:30 pm
Celebrate the past and envision the future at the 2010 Festival of the Building Arts at the National Building Museum. Work side by side with architects, builders, designers, artisans, and trades people as they demonstrate their skills.
Join in the fun!
- • Activities for visitors of all ages: drywall finishing, plastering, roof thatching, woodworking, surveying, nail driving, and more!
- • Young builders are invited to visit the exhibition Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s and then design their own buildings from recycled craft materials to create a City of the Future on the floor of the Museum’s Great Hall.
- • Budding artists and designers can help create a mural or design a mobile to take home as part of Art for Public Spaces, inspired by items on display in Designing Tomorrow.
- • Conversations with plumbers, roofers, architects, landscape designers, conservationists, and other experts let visitors explore both traditional and new building techniques and materials.
- • Live performances on stage including an interactive reading of Henry Builds a House for the festival’s youngest visitors and "Spotlight on the Trades," featuring several of the festival’s artisans demonstrating their crafts to audiences.
• Much, much, more!
FREE. $5 donation suggested. Most appropriate for ages 5–13. Drop-In. Individual registration is not required. Scout groups, please register.
A young girl receives instruction on hammering at the Miller & Long nail driving competition held during the Festival of the Building Arts.
© Peter Cutts
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With a variety of hands-on activities, the Museum’s annual Festival of the Building Arts is always popular.
Photo by F.T. Eyre
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Sponsors
The Festival of the Building Arts is presented by The Associated General Contractors of America. Additional support is provided by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
