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Live Operator Hours: Featuring Mary Halvorson in the Listening Room

Thu Jun 11 · 1pm · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Purchase general admission ticket to the museum

Join guitarist, composer, and recording artist Mary Halvorson as she activates Devon Turnbull's immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Sharing her distinctive sound and innovative approach to guitar, Halvorson will play a special selection of music to be heard through Turnbull's large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt.

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Drop-in Sketching in the Galleries

Fri Jun 12 · 1pm · Cooper Hewitt · Free with museum admission

Experience Cooper Hewitt's collection and exhibitions through drawing In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of the Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne exhibition, which explores the combination of human skill and mechanical precision that transform raw materials into objects as diverse as pencils, semiconductors, pianos, and rockets.

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Teen Drop-In at Sesame Workshop

Fri Jun 12 · 4:30pm · This event is now sold out!

Step into the world of Sesame Street and get an inside look into the work of the creative teams who create iconic characters. This offsite program is perfect for high school students interested in storytelling, branding, and character design.

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Designing Healthcare in the AI Era

Tue Jun 16 · 12pm · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Free with registration

Join us for a virtual lunchtime talk with Jules Sherman, winner of the 2025 National Design Award in Product Design, as she reflects on how her design practice has evolved over the past decade. Drawing from her work in medical device design and healthcare innovation, Sherman will share the fundamentals of her process—tracing her early use of hand-drawn sketches to her current use of AI tools.

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Live Operator Hours: Featuring the OJAS Team & Friends in the Listening Room

Tue Jun 16 · 1pm · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Purchase general admission ticket to the museum

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Devon Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion. Join friends and members of the OJAS team as they activate the immersive sound installation, HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3.

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Live Operator Hours: Featuring the OJAS Team & Friends in the Listening Room

Thu Jun 18 · 1pm · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Purchase general admission ticket to the museum

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Devon Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion. Join friends and members of the OJAS team as they activate the immersive sound installation, HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3.

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Live Operator Hours: Featuring Todd Garfinkle in the Listening Room

Fri Jun 19 · 1pm · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Purchase general admission ticket to the museum

Join musician, recording engineer, and founder of record label M.A Recordings Todd Garfinkle as he activates Devon Turnbull's immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Known for his extensive work at M.A making high quality recordings of live music across a variety of genres and settings, Garfinkle will play music specifically selected to be heard through Turnbull's large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt.

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