Using Your Voice: Songwriting and Community Action with Girls Rock! DC
Noel Schroeder and Shady Rose, Co-Executive Directors of Girls Rock! DC, discuss their approach to collaborative creative experiences.
Blog Category: Programs
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Body and Blood in Ana Mendieta’s Filmwork
Learn about the legacy of groundbreaking artist Ana Mendieta and how she examined urgent political, personal, and artistic questions through her artworkCategories -
Leslie Thornton and the Art of Surviving
Leslie Thornton’s feminist punk reset of experimental filmmaking’s aims and inclusions tackles issues we still grapple with today.Categories -
Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival Inaugurates Women’s History Month at SAAM
Cecila Vicuña, Coco Fusco, and Miriam Ghani address climate change, social justice, and the pandemicCategories -
Additional Reflections on Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, The Message is Death
Highlighting the voices of Black people and people of color within our local arts and creative community.Categories -
Take Five! Duke Pearson and Blue Note Records
A closer look at Duke Pearson’s role in creating the "Blue Note sound."Categories -
Meet the Director: Street Heroines' Alexandra Henry
Learn more about the documentary that celebrates the vision and tenacity of women street artists.Categories -
Take 5! Shook and Russo
It's all about the bass: Musician Amy Shook on influences, her quartet, and women in jazz.Categories -
Take 5! Celebrating Musician Butch Warren
An interview with bassist Tyrone Allen who performs at Take 5! on August 15.Categories -
Unforgettable: Jazz Singer Integriti Reeves Sings Nat King Cole
Jazz singer Integriti Reeves on her art, inspiration, and her upcoming Take5! concert performing songs of Nat King Cole.Categories -
The Art of Hip-Hop
A brief look at Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art in conjunction with America NowCategories -
Artist Brendan Fernandes On the Dance Floor as a Space for Resistance and Resilience
Dancer/choreographer Brendan Fernandes talks about his work, including Free Fall 49, making its East Coast debut at SAAM on June 9. -
Popping (Up) With Pride at SAAM
Saisha Grayson, curator of time-based media at SAAM, discusses the pop-up exhibition for the June 9 celebration of Pride. -
Artists Respond: Vietnam on Film
SAAM is presenting three films on the Vietnam War in honor of the exhibition, "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975."Categories -
L-O-V-E
Love is in the air and in the museum. Artworks and crafts projects in honor of celebrating (or avoiding) Valentine's Day.Categories