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Crafts Council gets serious about play in major exhibition for Hull UK City of Culture 2017

What is play? How do children play? Can adults play?
The Crafts Council’s new exhibition States of Play, launching at Humber Street Gallery in Hull in July, looks at how playfulness shapes our lives and the world around us.

The Crafts Council’s new exhibition States of Play opens in July for Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and will be on show from 7 July – 24 September. Through the eyes of 16 international makers and designers it presents play as a way of being, of understanding the world and giving it …