SAAM Stories
The Little Friends of Printmaking have created posters for the Renwick Gallery including for the current exhibition, This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Amy Hutchins
SAAM Marketing Manager
Creating visual descriptions to help blind or low vision visitors experience and appreciate works of art
Hannah Owh
Coloring books can offer space for creativity or release for children and adults. Inspired by artwork in SAAM’s collection, while away a quiet afternoon with some art supplies and our coloring sheets.
Amy Fox
Social Media and Digital Content Specialist
Luce Foundation Center
07/19/2022
The Luce Listening Party with Hometown Sounds comes to an end! In this final episode, listen to some outtakes that didn’t make the final podcasts.
Bridget Callahan
Luce Program Coordinator
Celebrate the ways these essential art elements show up in video games.
Lauren Kolodkin
External Affairs and Digital Strategies Assistant
Multimedia artist Sharon Kerry-Harlan pieces together portraits of contemporary Black American life using materials and symbols from the past and present
SAAM
Exhibitions
06/29/2022
Discover how the creativity and bold self-definition of untrained artists became major forces in American art.
SAAM
In his all too short career, the photographer rejected conventional codes of identity and insisted on new, ambiguous conditions of being.
Melissa Ho
Curator (20th-Century Art)
Artist L.J. Roberts integrates queer theory with traditional “domestic crafts” such as knitting and embroidery.
SAAM
Celebrating Pride with paintings by two artists whose lives intersected and whose artworks explore similar themes
Howard Kaplan
Writer
Online volunteers learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia by creating or updating articles related to the history of fifty women sculptors in the United States
Kelly Doyle
Sonoe Nakasone
Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and work
Howard Kaplan
Writer
Sculptor Wanxin Zhang explores history, politics, and culture through clay
SAAM
New exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery
SAAM
Contemporary Craft
05/12/2022
SAAM’s director on the exhibition This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Stephanie Stebich
Former Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Learn more about artist Bisa Butler's vivid portraits of African American heroes from World War I
SAAM
Luce Foundation Center
04/28/2022
SAAM's Luce Foundation Center is teaming up with DC local music podcast Hometown Sounds to bring you music and conversations from your favorite artists.
Anne Wilsey
Program Specialist for the Luce Foundation Center
From the Collection
04/21/2022
What happens when poet Frank O'Hara walks into Mike Goldberg's studio while he's working on a painting?
Howard Kaplan
Writer