June 2021

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Kit Paulson

  Kit Paulson is currently a resident artist at the Penland School of Craft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She makes intricate and whimsical glassworks that embody histories of ornamentation, material culture, and natural history. SAAM is acquiring her work, Lungs.

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  Contemporary Craft

  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

  New Acquisitions

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Manifestaciones

  Explore Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, a New York art collective inspired by Chicano print centers

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  Chicano Graphics

  Exhibitions

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  What Does a Gay Bar Look Like?

  Bernard Perlin’s The Bar makes us reflect on the spaces we’ve carved out as our own.

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  Pride

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  Sculpting Pride: Timothy Horn’s artworks delve into the human and natural worlds

  Learn more about the artwork and evolving career of Timothy Horn, feature artist in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

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  Pride

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  Chicanx Queer Visions: Fighting for Change and Exploring Identity

  Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ community

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  Chicano Graphics

  Exhibitions

  Pride

  New Acquisitions

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  Father's Day Flashbacks: Creating a Connection through Sports

  Take the father figure in your life on an online tour of sports in SAAM’s collection

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  Nancy Grossman and the Art of Unlearning

  Twisting Column Figure represents the freedom that comes once we commit to unlearning and undoing restrictions, from society and from ourselves.

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  Pride

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  Podcast Release: Music and Conversation with Singer, Actor, Painter, and Emcee Wes Felton

  Wes Felton reminisces about his father, jazz legend Hilton Felton, and lets us in on how to freestyle like a pro.

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  Luce Foundation Center

  Five Question Interviews

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  Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: La Curandera

  Artist Carmen Lomas Garza’s scenes from everyday life honor borderland culture and create community

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  Chicano Graphics

  Exhibitions

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  Romaine Brooks: Clothes Make the Wo(man)

  Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.

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  Pride

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  Laura Aguilar Photographs in Focus: Latina Lesbians

  Claudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAM

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  Pride

  New Acquisitions

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