SAAM Stories
08/27/2021
Reflecting on Paik's innovative installation with a new installment of the video series American Art Moments
Howard Kaplan
Writer
08/19/2021
Soak up the summer sun with a photography-inspired craft you can do at home
Gloria Kenyon
Public Programs Coordinator
08/12/2021
Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and work
Howard Kaplan
Writer
08/11/2021
Nora Atkinson, curator-in-charge of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, reflects on an unprecedented year and a half and the universal force of nature
Nora Atkinson
The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery
08/09/2021
Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier creates art from buffalo horn, a material with a deep ancestral and cultural connection
Mary Savig
Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft
08/06/2021
We look at themes from ¡Printing the Revolution! as discussed in conversations between the artists, curators, and scholars
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
08/03/2021
Leslie Thornton’s feminist punk reset of experimental filmmaking’s aims and inclusions tackles issues we still grapple with today.
Saisha Grayson
Curator of Time-Based Media
07/30/2021
Go in-depth with ¡Printing the Revolution's! iconic image
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/29/2021
Bartees Strange warns us against creating musical silos and describes how DC’s rich legacy of Black musicianship shaped his goals and his worldview.
Anne Wilsey
Program Specialist for the Luce Foundation Center
07/22/2021
SAAM Arcade is back with a new virtual program format, the museum’s first-ever Game Jam. Learn more about what a game jam is in this blog post!
Lauren Kolodkin
External Affairs and Digital Strategies Assistant
07/21/2021
Artist Melanie Cervantes explores indigeneity, identity, and activism in her printmaking practice
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/20/2021
Three years ago we imagined the letters of nineteenth-century portrait sitters to Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix’s series Queer Eye. With so many of us looking for advice about how to tame our unmanageable pandemic hair, we thought we’d take another look.
Howard Kaplan
Writer