Amy Fox

Social Media and Digital Content Specialist

Blog Posts

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  A Woman Deserving our Attention and RESPECT

  In honor of the Queen of Soul, the iconic singer and songwriter, Aretha Franklin.

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  4th of July, All Day Long

  To celebrate the Fourth of July, here's a parade of artworks.

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  Recipe for a Holiday Murder Mystery

  We challenge you to create your own murder mystery crime scene. Out of gingerbread.

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  SAAM Arcade: Let the Video Games Begin

  SAAM is turning into a video game arcade! On Saturday, August 5 and Sunday, August 6, anyone can participate in game building workshops, hear musicians performing music inspired by classic Nintendo and Sega themes, and play more than 100 games.

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  Technology

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  Photography Encouraged: Imagination and Association

  One of the best parts of my day is the time I set aside to search through the comments and photos people share with us on social media about the museum's artworks.

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  Sculpture

  Photography Encouraged

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  The Renwick Gallery and the Space in Between

  For more than a year, Janet Echelman's woven sculpture 1.8 Renwick has beckoned people into the Grand Salon. Suspended high above, the billowing nets transform the space. At once an artwork and an experience, people walk around the room as colors projected on the hand-knotted nets shift, or stretch out on the floor for a new view and a moment of peace.

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  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  Can You Name #5WomenArtists?

  It all began with a challenge, exactly one year ago. The National Museum of Women in the Arts posed a question and the goal was simple: get people talking about women artists.

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  Guest Curator Dakin Hart Speaks About the Work of Isamu Noguchi

  On December 1, Dakin Hart, senior curator of The Noguchi Museum and co-curator of Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern gave a talk at SAAM on the themes of the exhibition. As Hart navigates Noguchi's visionary work, he looks at the artist's ability to take inspiration from the ancient and the modern to create abstract and timeless works.

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• Photography Encouraged: Noguchi Edition

  Today, we begin a periodic series of photos visitors take in our galleries where, with many exhibitions, photography is encouraged. In my daily dive into our social media interactions, I take note of the unique ways you, our visitors, capture your experience in SAAM and the Renwick Gallery.

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  Photography Encouraged

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• Pokémon Go: Games, Art, and Open Spaces at the Museum

  Shortly after its release, colleagues began playing Pokémon Go —an augmented reality game that has captured the imagination of the entire internet. Museum visitors were doing the same. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, new games are often received with more enthusiasm than might be expected of an art museum. Perhaps you've heard, SAAM has a long history with games. Creating, collecting, exhibiting, and, of course, playing them. They're fun, they're often beautiful, and best of all, they connect people.

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  Technology

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