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Events at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Wednesday, February 10, 2010
3:00 PM
Lunder Conservation Center, 3rd 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. Lunder Conservation Center, Third Floor Mezzanine Thursday, February 11, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Thursday, February 11, 2010
6:30 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 The genre of the Western film is an enduring part of American culture. The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents two Western films in conjunction with the exhibition Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, opening February 12, 2010. McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level 3:10 to Yuma Thursday, February 11, 6:30 p.m. A Fistful of Dollars Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 p.m. Friday, February 12, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Saturday, February 13, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
F Street and G Street lobbies
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Travel throughout the galleries to find interactive carts where kids can handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares. Ages 7-12. Pick up your Art à la Cart map and passport at information desks located in the F Street and G Street lobbies. Education programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are supported by its Director’s Circle and contributions from the museum’s members. Saturday, February 13, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Saturday, February 13, 2010
11:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Kogod Courtyard
Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery
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 Join us for the fifth annual Presidential Family Day at American Art and the National Portrait Gallery! Music, storytelling, hands-on art projects, a scavenger hunt, and encounters with several “special guests” are just some of the activities scheduled for this lively Presidents’ Day weekend event. Kogod Courtyard Sunday, February 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
F Street and G Street lobbies
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Map
Travel throughout the galleries to find interactive carts where kids can handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares. Ages 7-12. Pick up your Art à la Cart map and passport at information desks located in the F Street and G Street lobbies. Education programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are supported by its Director’s Circle and contributions from the museum’s members. Sunday, February 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
F Street and G Street lobbies
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Map
Travel throughout the galleries to find interactive carts where kids can handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares. Ages 7-12. Pick up your Art à la Cart map and passport at information desks located in the F Street and G Street lobbies. Education programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are supported by its Director’s Circle and contributions from the museum’s members. Sunday, February 14, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Map
Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Sunday, February 14, 2010
3:00 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Award-winning composer Darin Atwater returns to American Art with a group of musicians who will create a musical interlude of ballads, and love songs, and premiere a short work entitled Rituals and Romance. Atwater is the artistic director and founder of the renowned Soulful Symphony. Tuesday, February 16, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Draw inspiration from artists' sketches as well as the thousands of objects on display in the Luce Foundation Center; then spend time sketching in our workshop. Some materials provided; please bring a small sketchbook and pencils. Repeats weekly. Wednesday, February 17, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Wednesday, February 17, 2010
3:00 PM
Lunder Conservation Center, 3rd 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. Lunder Conservation Center, Third Floor Mezzanine Thursday, February 18, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Thursday, February 18, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kogod Courtyard
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 A four-time WAMMIE-nominated quartet, The Bay Jazz Project will be back on the Take Five! stage to serve up crowd favorites, standards, and their own original music. Pianist Sean Lane, along with reed man Seth Kibel, bassist Bob Abbott, and drummer Mark Lucas, will be joined by Justine Miller with her sensational vocals and outstanding trumpet. Thursday, February 18, 2010
6:00 PM
Meet in the G Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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 Curator of Photography Toby Jurovics leads a tour of Framing the West. Jurovics will discuss O’Sullivan’s work for Clarence King and Lt. George M. Wheeler on two of the great surveys of the West, describing how the photographer fashioned a new and compelling vision of the American landscape that continues to influence and inspire contemporary artists. Meet in G Street Lobby Friday, February 19, 2010
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Meet in the F Street Lobby
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Join us for a tour or talk at 1:30 in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea in this elegant space. Beverages served until 3:30 p.m. except during special events. Results in Exhibitions
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1868, albumen print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
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