SAAM Stories

Claudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAM

Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.

Artist Carmen Lomas Garza’s scenes from everyday life honor borderland culture and create community

Wes Felton reminisces about his father, jazz legend Hilton Felton, and lets us in on how to freestyle like a pro.

Twisting Column Figure represents the freedom that comes once we commit to unlearning and undoing restrictions, from society and from ourselves.

Take the father figure in your life on an online tour of sports in SAAM’s collection

Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ community

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.