Translating a Visual Experience
Creating visual descriptions to help blind or low vision visitors experience and appreciate works of art
SAAM Stories: Craft and Decorative Arts
Featuring contemporary craft and decorative arts at SAAM and the Renwick Gallery.
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New Glass Now vs. New Glass Then
Discover the history of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery through Glass -
Native American Arts in Focus: Sustaining Traditions—Digital Memories
Discover how artist Kelly Church is ensuring that centuries of Indigenous traditions are preserved for future generations with her beautifully woven basketry.Categories -
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 -
Making the Most: In the Studio with Kevin Pourier
Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier creates art from buffalo horn, a material with a deep ancestral and cultural connectionCategories -
Making the Most: In the Studio with Carolyn Crump
The artist focused on health and happiness, for herself and others, during the pandemic.Categories -
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 2020Categories -
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.Categories -
Christine McHorse, an Artist Whose Clay Works Pushed Against Conventions
Remembering the Navajo artist whose clay works pushed against conventions over her fifty-year careerCategories -
Making the Most: In the Studio with Donté K. Hayes
The ceramic artist reflects on his art, studio practice, and life during this challenging periodCategories -
The Graphic Appeal of Amish Quilts
Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quiltsCategories -
Making the Most: In the Studio with Linda Lopez
Checking in with the artist who creates lively and unexpected sculptures from clay.Categories -
Lauren Fensterstock in Focus: Finding Inspiration in the End of the World
New artwork explores how weather and celestial activity have been used as metaphorCategories -
Debora Moore’s Glass Sculptures are Rooted in Nature
Sculptor Debora Moore works with glass to achieve great feats of creativity, craftsmanship, and natural wonder.Categories -
Making the Most: In the Studio with Julia Kwon
Julia Kwon’s interactive art projects facilitate solidarity and communityCategories -
Sharing Native American History through Art and Craft
Anya Montiel on her work as Curator of American and Native American Women’s Art and CraftCategories