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How SAAM is helping students stay creative when they can’t visit the museum
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April 2020
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SAAM’s Best Friends: Animals in Art and at Home
Because at SAAM everything eventually comes back to American art, some of us have been inspired to model our sweet, sassy, bored, annoyed, sleepy, amusing pets after favorite artworks in our collection. We offer them as amusement and inspiration, and as evidence of the creativity and sense of humor we appreciate in each other. -
Make your own Sun Print and Explore an Early Form of Photography
Did you know that you can create your own work of art with just construction paper and sunlight? You can with a sun print.Categories -
Flower Exploration and Natural Dye Lab
Bring nature indoors in this easy-to-do craft inspired by explorer and naturalist Alexander von HumboldtCategories -
Stemming the Tide: A Call to Climate Action for Cultural Heritage
Looking at climate change and cultural heritage worldwide as we honor the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.Categories -
A Brush with Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church
Humboldt's ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists, including the influential Hudson River school paintersCategories -
Designing for Humboldt: Five Questions with Karen Siatras
How a graphic designer at SAAM was inspired to incorporate Humboldt's ideas about nature into the exhibition catalogue -
Hips Don't Lie: The American Incognitum
What's a mastodon doing at SAAM? Dr. Advait Mahesh Jukar, a Deep Time Fellow and Paleontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, answers our questions.Categories -
Chiura Obata: Artist Interrupted
In our time of social distancing, Obata's handwritten notes have us thinking about how we communicate with one another, and how important a simple note can be.Categories -
Mysteries of the First Mastodon
Conservator Ariel O'Connor unearths the mysteries behind Charles Willson Peale’s mastodon.Categories