Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 selected programs that are our staff members' top picks, along with links to more events happening at the museum in the next two weeks.
(More info on these events - and lots of others - is available on our
online calendar.)


 
Wednesday, November 20, 7 - 9 p.m.
Barbara Haskell is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and a well-known scholar on American modern art.  In this lecture, she will discuss the works of Robert Indiana, creator of one of the iconic images of twentieth-century pop art, LOVE, and examine the the evolution of Robert Indiana's themes. 
  

Take 5! Concert with Toni Martucci Quintet  

Thursday, November 21, 5 - 7 p.m.   

Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. In this concert, the Toni Martucci Quintent plays original jazz influenced by Afro-Latin rhythms in conjunction with the exhibition "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art." In addition, unleash your inner artist with a free printmaking activity!   

 

Landscapes and Containers: A Conversation 

Thursday, November 21, 7 p.m. 

Senior curator Eleanor Harvey explores the western American landscape and its relationship to Wayne Higby's ceramic vessels with ceramicist Wayne Higby and Henry Sayre, professor of art history at Oregon State University. Together they create a dialogue between Higby's 21st-century containers and the 19th-century painters of America's frontier. 


Also Coming Up!  
 

Film: Born in East L.A.  

Tuesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m. 

 

Basket Making Demonstration (at the Renwick)  

Friday, November 15, 1 - 4 p.m. 

 

American Craft Masterpieces Gallery Talk on the ceramic art of Wayne Higby (at the Renwick)

Wednesday, November 20, noon   

 

Art Signs - ASL Gallery Talk 

Sunday, November 24, 1 p.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 
 

Now Open!

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Through March 2, 2014
Renwick Gallery
Through December 8, 2013

Renwick Gallery
Through December 8, 2013

Smithsonian American Art Museum 
Through February 23, 2014
 
Smithsonian American Art Museum 
Through January 5, 2014
Image credits:

Wayne Higby, Temple's Gate Pass, 1988, hand-built, raku-fired, and glazed earthenware, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of KPMG Peat Marwick, � 1988 Wayne Higby

 

Wayne Higby, White Table Canyon, 1981, wheel-thrown and corrected, raku-fired, and glazed earthenware, Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase and gift of the James Renwick Alliance

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