Exhibition Press Kits

Current Exhibitions

American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art [SAAM]

 

Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back [SAAM]

 

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas [SAAM]
Fighter's for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice [SAAM]
J.P. Ball and Robert S. Duncanson: An African American Artistic Collaboration [SAAM]

 

Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 [Renwick Gallery]

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women [SAAM]
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women  [Renwick Gallery]

 

Traveling Exhibitions

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas [National Tour]

Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination [National Tour] 

¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now [National Tour]

 

Past Exhibitions

2023

Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea [SAAM]

 

Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies [SAAM]

 

2022

We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection [SAAM]

 

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World [Renwick Gallery]

 

2021

New Glass Now [Renwick Gallery]

 

Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano [SAAM]

 

L. J. West Collection of Early Photography 

 

Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore,1975-1980 [SAAM]

 

2020

Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 [Renwick Gallery]

 

Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture [SAAM]

 

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists [Renwick Gallery] 

 

2019

Chiura Obata: American Modern [SAAM]

 

Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists [SAAM] 

 

American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs [SAAM] 

 

Michael Sherrill Retrospective [Renwick Gallery] 

 

Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue [SAAM] 

 

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 [SAAM] 

 

2018

Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 [Renwick Gallery] 

 

Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor [SAAM] 

 

Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen [SAAM]

 

Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs [SAAM]

 

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man [Renwick Gallery]

 

Do Ho Suh: Almost Home [SAAM] 

 

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) [National Tour] 

 

2017

Tamayo: The New York Years [SAAM]

 

Rick Araluce: The Final Stop [Renwick Gallery]

 

Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death [Renwick Gallery]

 

Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light [SAAM]

 

Parallax Gap [Renwick Gallery]

 

Press Kit Archive

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