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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.
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:
Wednesday, August 14, 6 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
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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
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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.
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!
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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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Smithsonian American Art Museum
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, D.C. 20013
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