Much Here Is BeautifulGallery Talk

Thursday, October 15, 2026, 5:30 – 6:30pm EDT
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Cost
Free | Registration required
Registration opens September 15
Event Location
1st Floor, Osher and Eisenstein Family Galleries
Part of series
John P. Jacob, the McEvoy Family Senior Curator for Photography, and Krystle Stricklin, assistant curator of photography, will take attendees on a tour through the exhibition Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial. Questions are allowed throughout the tour, and stools will be provided for those who need them.  

Image credit: Ted Wathen, Former Company Houses, Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, 1975, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1614, © 1975, Ted Wathen 

Exhibitions

Black and white photograph of a row of houses seen from a distance.
Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U​.​S. Bicentennial
September 18, 2026April 18, 2027
This exhibition brings together selected images from photography surveys that document life in the United States, with a focus on the years before and after the Bicentennial in 1976.