Smithsonian American Art Museum
October Art Talks

 Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art 

 Artist Elizabeth Peyton 

 October 12 at 7pm

Elizabeth Peyton

 

Elizabeth Peyton, figurative painter and portraitist, speaks. Reception follows.

 

Free tickets required; available in the museum's G Street Lobby at 6:30pm

 

watch the live webcast 

 Best Practices for Health and Safety
 in the Dangerous Field of Art
 

 October 14 at 4pm
 
Monona Rossol, author of The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide, discusses regulations for labeling, disposal of hazardous art materials, and safety guidelines for studios and laboratories.

 

 Art + Coffee with Danielle O'Steen

 October 16 at 1:30pm

 

Richard Serra, Maquette for Tilted Arc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Washington, D.C. art critic and curator Danielle O'Steen
 discusses works on view in the Luce Center in relation to her
 latest project. Talk at 1:30pm; complimetary coffee & tea
 served until 3:30pm. Meet in the F Street Lobby.

 

 American Craft Masterpieces

 October 19 at noon (Renwick Gallery) 

 

Pamela Studstill, Quilt

Deputy Chief of Operations
Fern Bleckner explores
Pamela Studstill's Quilt #86,
a new acquisition of the museum

 

Please meet in the Renwick Gallery
lobby for this program

 

 

Images:  

Elizabeth Peyton; Conservation of a damaged painting; Richard Serra, Maquette for Tilted Arc, 1980, Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the General Services Administration, Art-in-Architecture Program; Pamela Studstill, Quilt #86, 1989, Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Barbara and Robert Paterson Hunter, Jr.

 

 

Upcoming Talks 

 

November 2

Artist Julie Mehretu

 

November 10

MoMA and American Modernism

 

November 16

Washington Printmakers 

 

 

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