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Teaching a More Complete Picture of MLK

While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was a pivotal moment in U.S. history, there’s more to his life and legacy than that single story. Smithsonian educators share approaches to expand classroom lessons and student understanding of this great civil rights leader.

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Bringing Chicanx Stories Into the Classroom Through Art

Museum educators share Chicanx posters with teachers around the world

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Chicano Graphics

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Centering Black Youth Voices in Baltimore

SAAM educator Elizabeth Dale-Deines talks with Karim R. Amin about the outcomes of creating a youth-focused photography program

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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.

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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 teaching

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Discoveries from the Collection: Honoring Sacrifice this Memorial Day with U.S. Military Cemetery Historian

Discover how a partnership between SAAM and the American Battle Monuments Commission commemorates the honor, service and sacrifice of America’s fallen in wars abroad.

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Discoveries from the Collection: Honoring Service and Sacrifice in American Art

Discover how a partnership between SAAM and the American Battle Monuments Commission revealed an unexpected connection between Paul Manship sketches and a U.S. military cemetery located outside of Rome.

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We’ve Got Your Back...Pack

How SAAM is helping students stay creative when they can’t visit the museum

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Representation Matters: Bringing Women’s Stories Into the Classroom Through American Art and Portraiture

A collaboration between SAAM and NPG illuminates the lives and works of women artists in our collections.

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Reframing American Art

A new web series explores American art by making unexpected connections across the Smithsonian

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What Domingo Ulloa's Braceros Means to Me

Local student Amaia Noursi responds to the painting, Braceros, by Domingo Ulloa, as part of SAAM's "Creating American Stories" program.

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What Mark Bradford's Amendment #8 means to me

DC public school student Myles Bell, responds to Mark Bradford's painting, Amendment #8

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Wine and Sign at ASL After Five

The second ASL After Five happy hour event for the D.C. area’s Deaf community will take place on May 31, 2019

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Back to School with SAAM

While many of us are planning one last beach getaway, teachers and students in several places around the country have already headed back to the classroom. You might be surprised, however, to hear some of the ways artworks in SAAM’s collection will be showing up with them!

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SAAM’s Docents Celebrate 50 Years of Artful Conversations

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own corps of volunteer docents has an illustrious history of creating eye-opening experiences for visitors, and this year marks their 50th anniversary.

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Two Artists, One Vision: Kara Walker and Spike Lee

Kara Walker’s series Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), currently on view at SAAM through March 11, and Spike Lee’s 2000 film Bamboozled, are two great examples of how art has the power to tackle sensitive and important matters. Although these works are very different, they discuss the same things: history, race, gender, and stereotypes.

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