Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery

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      How do you mark the 50th anniversary of the nation's premier museum dedicated to American craft? Join Stephanie Stebich, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery, curators Nora Atkinson and Mary Savig, and six artists whose work is in the museum's collection—Katie Hudnall, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Chawne Kimber, Karen LaMonte, Steven Young Lee, and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood—as they reflect on the past, present, and future of the Renwick.

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