Thinking Outside the Box: Joseph Cornell for the Holidays
Joseph Cornell, who was born in 1903 on Christmas Eve, often created handmade objects to give as gifts during the holidays.
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SAAM Stories: Behind-the-Scenes
From exhibition sneak peeks to staff-only spaces, share an inside look at SAAM and the Renwick Gallery.
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Creating Authentic Community Collaboration
One SAAM educator explores creating a meaningful partnership with a community-based organization to achieve something neither could have done alone.Categories -
Across the Nation and Around the Globe: Learning with American Art
Hear from SAAM’s education team about leading during the pandemic as teachers transitioned to online teachingCategories -
Reflecting on Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 During a Global Pandemic
Nora Atkinson, curator-in-charge of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, reflects on an unprecedented year and a half and the universal force of nature -
Raising a Glass to Change
SAAM’s third floor galleries for modern and contemporary art are closed to the public temporarily beginning Monday, July 12 to make way for new artworks and new stories.Categories -
Lessons Learned from Alexander von Humboldt
Senior Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey takes readers behind the scenes of an exhibition’s 17-month runCategories -
The Art of the Teleconference
Transform your Zoom virtual background or computer desktop into a work of artCategories -
Women's Films, All of Our Futures
Join us at SAAM for the second Women Filmmakers Festival March 6 and 7Categories -
Behind the Screens: Chiura Obata
Chiura Obata: American Modern contains some of the artist's rarely seen folded screens.Categories -
Embrace the Dust: A Burning Man Journal
A personal journal by museum educator and first time Burner, Geoffrey Cohrs.Categories -
Sneak Peek: Renwick Invitational 2018
Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 opens Friday, November 9, and might be just what you need this week. -
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor opens today
Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is among the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
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More Pepper, Please!
Scanning... Scanning... Pepper the robot has a few surprising special skills to share at Technology Family Day.Categories -
You Are Invited: "Happy Birthday, Nam June Paik"
Curator of New Media, Saisha Grayson, introduces artist Saya Woolfalk who will speak at the Nam June Paik birthday event, July 22, 2018.Categories -
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen Now OpenInstalling Trevor Paglen's Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite in the exhibition Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen.Categories -
Paint the Town Red
The exterior of the Reynolds Center, home to SAAM and NPG, is being lit red in honor of the Washington Capitals, and the Stanley Cup playoffs.Categories