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  • Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

    An artwork with small details made of beads depicting nature.

    February 21, 2020 – May 17, 2020

    Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)

    Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native women.

  • Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

    A painting of a bridge made from nature.

    March 20, 2020 – August 16, 2020

    Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

    This exhibition reveals how the influential naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American cultural identity became grounded in our relationship with the environment.

  • Janet Echelman’s 1.8 Renwick

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    April 3, 2020 – August 14, 2022

    Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)
    Janet Echelman's colorful fiber and lighting installation, suspended from the ceiling of the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon, examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world, and reveals the artist's fascination with the measurement of time. 

  • Steel and Sky: Views of New York City

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    May 8, 2020 – October 25, 2020

    Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)
    Steel and Sky: Views of New York City celebrates the architecture, inhabitants, and imaginative spirit of urban America. The exhibition showcases work by artists such as John Sloan, Isabel Bishop, William H. Johnson, and Paul Cadmus, who practiced in New York through the early and middle years of the twentieth century.

  • Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

    abstract shapes painted in silver with seven silver ornaments.

    July 17, 2020 – February 7, 2021

    Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)

    Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.

  • ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

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    September 11, 2020 – January 24, 2021

    Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)
    In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.