Smithsonian American Art Museum
Staff Picks - Coming Up at American Art!

There's always something happening at American Art and its Renwick Gallery! Below are some of our staff members' favorite programs coming up in the next two weeks. (More info on these events and others is available on our online calendar.) Hope to see you there!

 
Tuesday, August 13, 6 p.m.

Join McEvoy Family Curator for Photography Lisa Hostetler as she tours the exhibition A Democracy of Images and discusses the photography collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Meet in G St Lobby 


Saturday, August 10, 11:30 a.m.

Celebrate America's favorite pastime with players from the Washington Nationals Baseball Club, photo-ops and hands-on activities. Cosponsored with the National Portrait Gallery. 

Kogod Courtyard

  

Wednesday, August 7, 6:15 p.m.  

Learn more about the design and sewing process with Bits of Thread Sewing Studio owner Allison Lince-Bentley, who will share her love of sewing with visitors and speak about a variety of projects.  

Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
   
Thursday, August 8, 6:30 p.m.  

With an introduction by Michael Mansfield, associate curator of film and media arts. 

McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level

Also coming up at American Art:

Luce Artist Talk with Pointless Theatre Company
Sunday, August 11, 1:30 p.m.  

 
Take 5! Andréa Wood presents Shirley Horn
Thursday, August 15, 5 p.m.   

Wednesday, August 14, 6 p.m.

 

Art Signs Gallery Talk in ASL 
Sunday, August 18, 1 p.m.  

Wednesday, August 14, noon
Discover treasures in the museum's permanent craft collection during our gallery talk series. Individual objects are discussed in an intimate gallery setting. This  month, Renwick Gallery deputy chief of operations Fern Bleckner discusses Dale Nish's Nagare Bowl.
1st-floor Lobby
Ongoing Programs

Sketching: Draw and Discover
Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m.
American Art Museum

Behind-the-Scenes Introduction to the Lunder Conservation Center
Wednesdays at 3 p.m.
American Art Museum

Art + Coffee
Fridays through Sundays at 1:30 p.m. Check the online calendar for featured speakers.
American Art Museum

Highlights of the American Art Museum  Daily at 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.
American Art Museum

Highlights of the Renwick Gallery  Fridays at noon, weekends at 1 p.m.
Renwick Gallery 
 

Now Open! 

Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes 
July 26, 2013 - January 20, 2014
 
Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century. These photographs, created in the 1970s and 1980s, invoke an increasingly mobile society and the telegraphic relationship to the natural world that it encourages. Decades later, these observations continue to resonate in an even more mediated contemporary environment. 

Closing Soon! 
 
Now - August 11, 2013   
The artwork and ideas of the Korean-born artist Nam June Paik were a major influence on late twentieth-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists.
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary offers an unprecedented view into the artist's creative method by featuring key artworks that convey Paik's extraordinary accomplishments as a major international artist. There are only a few weeks left to view the exhibition - don't miss it!
  
Image Credits:
 
Elaine Mayes, Autolandscape, Colorado, September 1971, gelatin silver print sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase © 1971, Elaine Mayes

 

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