Bridge Gallery Conversation
- Cost
- Free | Registration required
- Event Location
- Meet in the G Street Lobby
- Categories
- Building
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Join SAAM’s Lunder Education Chair Carol Wilson for a guided conversation about Glenn Kaino’s aerial sculpture Bridge. The work is comprised of 200 golden arms, each a casting of the outstretched right arm of American Olympian Tommie Smith, who famously bowed his head and raised his black-gloved fist in a symbolic act of protest during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The monumental sculpture is part of an ongoing collaboration between Kaino and Smith and is a reflection on the power of the athlete’s gesture about 50 years after it occurred.
In this interactive program, participants will explore the piece while viewing it from all three levels of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center.
Image credit: Installation photography of Glenn Kaino: Bridge, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2024; Photo by Albert Ting
In this interactive program, participants will explore the piece while viewing it from all three levels of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center.
Image credit: Installation photography of Glenn Kaino: Bridge, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2024; Photo by Albert Ting
Exhibitions
November 8, 2024–September 14, 2025
SAAM's groundbreaking exhibition examines the ways in which American sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the United States.