SAAM Stories
07/16/2021
A close exploration of a resilient community through the lens of three women photographers
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/12/2021
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.
Katie Hondorf
Public Affairs Specialist
07/07/2021
Senior Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey takes readers behind the scenes of an exhibition’s 17-month run
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Senior Curator (19th-Century Art)
07/02/2021
The artist focused on health and happiness, for herself and others, during the pandemic.
Mary Savig
Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft
06/30/2021
Claudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAM
Claudia Zapata
Former Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art
06/29/2021
Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.
Geoffrey Cohrs
Docent Coordinator
06/25/2021
Artist Carmen Lomas Garza’s scenes from everyday life honor borderland culture and create community
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
06/25/2021
Wes Felton reminisces about his father, jazz legend Hilton Felton, and lets us in on how to freestyle like a pro.
Anne Wilsey
Program Specialist for the Luce Foundation Center
06/17/2021
Take the father figure in your life on an online tour of sports in SAAM’s collection
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
06/16/2021
Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ community
Claudia Zapata
Former Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art
06/08/2021
Explore Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, a New York art collective inspired by Chicano print centers
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
06/04/2021
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.
Mary Savig
Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft
05/27/2021
The composer and instrumentalist shares her thoughts on music and the development of her craft.
Anne Wilsey
Program Specialist for the Luce Foundation Center