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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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| Our exhibition schedule is jam-packed right now--all of our galleries are filled with art! And art on the walls means lots of opportunities to learn about the history, inspiration, technique, and concepts that are connected to the work. Whether featuring one of my expert colleagues or a gifted mind from the world outside the museum, the talks below promise to give you insight that you might miss just wandering the galleries. Please do look at the art, but then join us for some thought-provoking programs!
Public Affairs
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40 under 40: Craft Futures
Curator Talk and Artist Open House Friday, July 20 │ noon @ the Renwick Gallery
Nicholas Bell, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art, offers a brief illustrated talk on the new exhibition 40 under 40: Craft Futures. Bell will copies of the exhibition catalog following his talk. Afterward, mingle with many of the exhibition artists in the gallery. If you would like to help the Renwick Gallery acquire works by all of the artists in 40 under 40: Craft Futures, click here.
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Happy Birthday Nam June Paik!
Gallery Talk Friday, July 20 │ 6pm Join John Hanhardt, senior curator for media arts, and Kota Ezawa, assistant professor of media arts at the California College of the Arts, for a stimulating discussion on the legacy of Nam June Paik, internationally recognized as the father of video art. Influenced by Paik, Ezawa has produced animations that deal with abstraction and mediated perceptions of reality through reconstructions of existing films and videos. After the talk, discussion will continue in the Luce Foundation Center over Paik cupcakes and refreshments in celebration of his birthday. |
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
Curator Talk with Virginia Mecklenburg
Wednesday, August 1 │ 7pm
Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator, will explore the work of Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Lois Mailou Jones, Melvin Edwards, and other artists featured in African American Art. These artists participated in ongoing dialogues about art, black identity, and individual rights that engaged American society in the twentieth century. Using documentary realism, painterly expressionism, and the postmodern assemblage of found objects, they rewrote American history and its art. Facing Forward Looking Back: Black Artists Search for Their Voice
Tuesday, August 14 │ 6pm Maricia Battle, curator of photography at the Library of Congress and exhibition catalogue contributor, leads a gallery talk of African American Art, highlighting several artists whose works tell their story of survival through the tumultuous changes of American history.
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The Art of Video Games
Playing Pong in 2100:
How to Preserve Old Video Games Saturday, August 18 │1 - 5pm Industry leaders J. P. Dyson, Strong Museum of Play, Henry Lowood, Stanford University, Chris Grant, Vox Media, Jon Gibson, iam8bit, Dave Gibson, Library of Congress, and Rachel Donahue, University of Maryland, join the museum's media specialist Michael Mansfield and chief conservator, Tiarna Doherty and guest curator Chris Melissinos to discuss conservation and preservation of digital media, specifically video games, in a world of constantly evolving technologies. This talk will be relevant to conservators, collectors, and gamers alike. Building The Art of Video GamesTuesday, August 21 │ 6pm
Exhibition designer David Gleeson and media specialist Michael Mansfield share the challenges they faced in creating the design for The Art of Video Games
exhibition.
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IMAGES
40 under 40: Craft Futures
Nam June Paik, photo © Francene Keery
Jacob Lawrence, Bar and Grill, 1941, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design
Exhibition designer David Gleeson tests video game equipment in preparation for The Art of Video Games
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All programs free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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Photography, jazz, craft, media arts...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th & F Streets NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Renwick Gallery
Pennsylvania Ave at 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
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