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Events at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), and
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery Monday, May 12, 2008
7:00 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, lower level
National Portrait Gallery
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 The National Portrait Gallerys Cultures in Motion series brings Katharine Hepburn to life in a piece entitled Hepburn Herself. Featuring actress Helen Hedman as Hepburn and the Portrait Gallerys Jewell Robinson as her interviewer, the piece is a compilation of Hepburns quotations and creates an intimate portrayal of the iconic star in her own words. Behind her carefully constructed image, the notoriously secretive actress shares her thoughts on life, death, family, regret, grief and love, revealing, above all, a woman ahead of her time. Tuesday, May 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Join us for a lively sketching workshop. Discover sketchbooks from the Archives of American Art, sketch in the Luce Foundation Center, or learn to draw from life in the Kogod Courtyard with botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini from the National Museum of Natural History. Some materials provided; please bring a small sketchbook and pencils. Second and Fourth Tuesdays of the Month Sketching in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor Wednesday, May 14, 2008
1:30 PM
Meet in the F Street lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art; then enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. The Luce Foundation Center is a study center and open storage facility that displays more than 3,300 objects from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meet in the F Street lobby. Wednesdays Enjoy a self-guided tour of the Luce Foundation Center. Wednesday, May 14, 2008
3:00 PM
Lunder Conservation Center, Third Floor Mezzanine
Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery
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 Learn how museum conservators use science, art history, and skilled hands to preserve objects from our collections in the Lunder Conservation Center. Group size is limited; meet at the Luce Foundation Center Information Desk by 3 p.m. Program repeats every week. Lunder Conservation Center, Third Floor Mezzanine Thursday, May 15, 2008
12:00 PM
Grand Salon
Renwick Gallery
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 Sabine Albersmeier, associate curator of ancient art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, explores the evolution of jewelry through time, starting with the first forms of adornment and ending with the avant-garde jewelry of today. Renwick GalleryGrand Salon Thursday, May 15, 2008
12:30 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Please join us for a series of lectures in American art organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks will take place in the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, D.C. No reservations are required. For more information, contact SAAMFellowships@si.edu or (202) 633-8353. Coffee and tea will be served during the intermissions, and a wine reception will conclude the series on Friday afternoon. Click Here for Complete Schedule of Lectures Thursday, May 15, 2008
1:30 PM
Meet in the F Street lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art; then enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. The Luce Foundation Center is a study center and open storage facility that displays more than 3,300 objects from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meet in the F Street lobby. Thursdays Explore contemporary American craft and folk art with professors and graduate students from the History of Decorative Arts program. The Masters in the History of Decorative Arts program is offered by the Smithsonian Associates in partnership with the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Thursday, May 15, 2008
4:00 PM
Meet in front of the work in the Lincoln Gallery, Third Floor.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Docent coordinator Carol Wilson discusses the huge video map of the United States by Nam June Paik, the first to use the phrase electronic superhighway. Paiks installation reminds us that each state has a distinct identity and culture, even in todays information age. Meet in front of the work in the Lincoln Gallery, Third Floor. Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Kogod Courtyard
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Toe-tapping, finger-snapping, and crowd-pleasing! Kick back and unwind with live jazz, cool drinks, and great art every month. In May, The trio of master jazz guitarist Rick Whitehead, bassist John Previti, and drummer Barry Hart–winner of the Washington Area Music Association WAMMIE Award for Best Contemporary Album–shares their music. Kogod Courtyard Take Five! is made possible with the generous support of the Venable Foundation and the Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, Inc. Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:30 PM
Meet in the Exhibition
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Senior curator Joann Moser gives a thirty-minute talk on the exhibition Obatas Yosemite. Japanese American artist Chiura Obata painted a series of watercolors on a trip to Yosemite in 1927 and took some of them to Japan to have them made into traditional woodcuts. The exhibition includes examples of twenty stages in the complex process of woodblock-print making. Meet in the exhibition. Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
F Street lobby
National Portrait Gallery
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On May 15, executive assistant to the acting director Lauren Johnson speaks about the portrait of Douglas Fairbanks, a leading actor of early Hollywood and co-founder of United Artists, by the Ullman Manufacturing Company in the exhibition Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture. Friday, May 16, 2008
12:30 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Please join us for a series of lectures in American art organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks will take place in the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, D.C. No reservations are required. For more information, contact SAAMFellowships@si.edu or (202) 633-8353. Coffee and tea will be served during the intermissions, and a wine reception will conclude the series on Friday afternoon. Click Here for Complete Schedule of Lectures Friday, May 16, 2008
1:30 PM
Meet in the F Street lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art; then enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. The Luce Foundation Center is a study center and open storage facility that displays more than 3,300 objects from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meet in the F Street lobby. Fridays Peek into David Becks animated sculpture Movie Palace or discover the miniature world of his MVSEVM. Saturday, May 17, 2008
1:30 PM
Meet in the F Street lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art; then enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. The Luce Foundation Center is a study center and open storage facility that displays more than 3,300 objects from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meet in the F Street lobby. Saturdays and Sundays Join us in the Luce Foundation Center for a guided tour. Sunday, May 18, 2008
1:30 PM
Meet in the F Street lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art; then enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. The Luce Foundation Center is a study center and open storage facility that displays more than 3,300 objects from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meet in the F Street lobby. Saturdays and Sundays Join us in the Luce Foundation Center for a guided tour. Sunday, May 18, 2008
3:00 PM
Grand Salon
Renwick Gallery
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 Over the last thirty-five years, fiber artist John Garrett has worked with textile technologies and a wide range of found and natural materials to create two- and three-dimensional constructions that are visually unpredictable and intellectually eloquent. Join Garrett as he highlights his creations. Sponsored by the James Renwick Alliance. Renwick GalleryGrand Salon ONGOING
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