Opening 8.29.2026
Opening 8.29.2026
A museum exhibition dedicated to the incredible art, craft, and culture of glass cannabis pipes.
August 29th, 2026 - January 3, 2027
Operating largely under the radar of mainstream culture, contemporary pipemaking has an incredibly large following.
Despite this popularity and the fact that many first-generation pipe makers have been working for more than a quarter century, there has been no major survey of their work outside of the pipe and cannabis world and no attempt to place the work in a larger historical context.
High Style: The Art of Cannabis Pipes
is a community-responsive survey of the contemporary pipe art movement since its emergence in the 1990s to the present day.
Its practitioners are considered folk heroes and art stars to legions of online and in-person followers.
As legalization of cannabis spreads across the country, the time is right for an appraisal of this innovative field of cultural production.
Developed in conversation with key members of the pipe community by a curator who has long developed relationships to this under-the-radar field, the exhibition features approximately 130 works by more than fifty of the movement’s leading artists.
It presents the development of the field, demonstrating its aesthetic diversity and intersections with other subcultures from music to skateboarding, fashion, and collectible toys.
Since emerging as an art form in the underground scene of Grateful Dead concerts in the 1980s and 1990s, glass cannabis pipes have grown into an enduring—and surprisingly ubiquitous—feature of the contemporary landscape.
