SAAM Stories

Learn more about the artwork and evolving career of Timothy Horn, feature artist in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

Bernard Perlin’s The Bar makes us reflect on the spaces we’ve carved out as our own.

Explore Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, a New York art collective inspired by Chicano print centers

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.

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.

The composer and instrumentalist shares her thoughts on music and the development of her craft.

Our video series American Art Moments takes a closer look at an important New Deal painting in SAAM’s collection

Chicanx artists elevate national and global historic figures to inspire activism

A critical look at artistic production and the unequal distribution of benefits during the New Deal period

Artists honor victims of social injustice and create a space for communal grieving

Stephanie Stebich, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director, welcomes visitors back to the museum and looks at artworks on view by Asian American artists in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

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.

Shizu Saldamando explores identity and representation through portraiture

Chicano artists use graphics to reframe history with new perspectives

What do an epic nineteenth-century landscape that inspired the designation of a national park and a twenty-first-century post-apocalyptic scene hinting at a hopeful future have in common?

Singer-songwriter, Jenna Camille, discusses how her creative motivations have evolved over the past year.

Enjoy an easy and fun craft using recycled materials and plant the seed for a greener future

We take a look at the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on nature as well as an excerpt from Eleanor Jones Harvey’s exhibition catalogue focusing on Carleton E. Watkins.