Blacksmith and installation artist Angharad Pearce Jones worked hard for five months preparing Wales' exhibition for this year's Smithsonian Festival in Washington DC.
The Festival, which celebrates folk culture, is held every year at the National Mall in Washington, the park between the Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial, and attracts over a million visitors. This year, the culture of Wales was given prominence.
Angharad, who comes originally from Bala, but now lives in Brynaman with husband Tom, and children, Gwilym and Bryn, was responsible for designing Wales' exhibition.
This week, in a special documentary, Cymru yn Washington, made by the producers of arts series, Sioe Gelf, we follow her as she spends an action-packed ten days in Washington, bringing everything together for the opening of the Festival.
We'll also have an opportunity to see some of the activities at the Festival, and hear from some of the Welsh people taking part this year, including singer Siân James, poet Ceri Wyn Jones, and artist Christine Mills.
Helping Angharad to set up the exhibition were dry stone wall expert Stuart Fry from Beulah in Powys, and the artists Carwyn Evans from LlandyfrÑ—og near Newcastle Emlyn, and Howard Bowcott from Penrhyndeudraeth.
Her ambitious design called for a lot of physical work as it involved building a stone wall and numerous entrances such as kissing gates, stiles and rugby posts.
"I wanted to take the textures of Wales to Washington - stone, slate, iron - and take a visual chunk of Wales to the Mall. Everyone worked really hard, and Stuart was great, he's a big personality, and people were lining up to ask him about his work. I was jetlagged after returning home, but I felt I had done my best for my country. It has been an honour. I'm very pleased that we succeeded in showing that rural life and culture is still alive and is contemporary and relevant to life today."
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O Gymru / Made in Wales