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  • The Shopping Bag: Portable Art Medium and Message
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The Shopping Bag: Portable Art Medium and Message

Paper or Plastic? Whatever your choice, these bags help carry the load and get the word out for a brand or a cause. Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program participant, show how using all-too-commonly discarded plastic bags can teach patience, share heritage, and open up new markets for Aymara and Quechua artisans.


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Shopping bag

801 Steak and Chop House

Bloomingdale's: First Flush of Summer

Le Pret-a-Porter pour vos jambes

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Mövenpick

Paramount Pictures: "Clueless"

Macy's: An Impressionist Garden

Bloomingdale's: Jumping Fish

Bloomingdale's: Broadway Ninety

Palazzetti, Inc.: Black Bag

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Magritte

Sony

Hanna Barbera: Johnny Quest

Marshall Field's: Blue Skies

Bloomingdale's: Tempo d'Italia

Subways in Tokyo

Barnes and Noble: Virginia Woolf/Oscar Wilde

Japan Cultured Pearl Retailers Association

Museum of Modern Art: Henri Matisse (1992)

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