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 lots of others - is available on our online calendar.) Hope to see you at the museum soon!

 
Artist Teresita Fern�ndez and her work "Nocturnal (Horizon Line)" 
2010, solid graphite on panel, � 2010, Teresita Fern�ndez 

*This is a ticketed event - free tickets are available in the G Street Lobby, 30 minutes prior; limit two per person 

  

Thursday, September 19, 5 - 7 p.m. 
Free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard featuring Nasar Abadey and SUPERNOVA�      

Join Ray Telles, producer of Latino Americans, Episode 6Ray Suarez, chief national correspondent for PBS NewsHour; and E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, for a lively discussion following the screening of "Peril and Promise," the sixth episode of Latino Americans. Book signing with Suarez follows.   

*This is a ticketed event - free tickets are available in the G Street Lobby, 30 minutes prior; limit two per person 

 

Luce Unplugged Community Showcase
Friday, September 27, 6 - 8 p.m. 

Explore artworks on display in the museum's Luce Foundation Center while listening to sets by local bands Janel and Anthony, and Teen Mom, selected with the help of Washington City Paper's managing editor, Jonathan L. Fischer. Local brewery Port City Brewing will offer free tastings from 6 to 7 p.m. 

    

Also coming up:

  

Wednesday, September 18, noon 

 
Friday, September 20, noon  

Presented by Leo Mazow as part of the Eldredge Prize Lecture Series
Thursday, September 26, 4 p.m.

Lecture: A Closer Look at American Masterpieces
Part 2 of 3, examining art during and after the Civil War through 1900 
Saturday, September 28, 11a.m. - 1p.m.
 
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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