Chiura Obata's America (December 5, 2019)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Critic Mary Louise Schumacher (November 6, 2019)

Picturing the American Buffalo: A Conversation (October 30, 2019)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Scholar Naomi Beckwith (October 23, 2019)

The Ecstatic Message: Talking Music and Moving Image Art with Artists Ja'Tovia Gary and Arthur Jafa (October 12, 2019)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Professor Nizan Shaked (October 3, 2019)

Universal Design for Museums (September 17, 2019)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Artist Albert Paley (September 11, 2019)

Tanya DePass Keynote Talk for SAAM Arcade (August 3, 2019)

OBJECTS: USA at 50 (July 19, 2019)

Conversation with Artist David Levinthal (June 7, 2019)

SAAM Fellows’ Lectures in American Art 2019 (May 22-24, 2019)

James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture with Tiffany Chung (May 2, 2019)

Artists Respond: A Symposium (March 15, 2019)

Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor Symposium (February 22, 2019)

Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture with Professor Susan Rather (February 7, 2019)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Artist Marie Watt (October 17, 2018)

Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa Symposium (September 14, 2018)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Scholar Helen Molesworth (September 12, 2018)

Artist Lecture with Trevor Paglen (June 20, 2018)

Artist Roundtable: Art and Identity Between Cultures (June 14, 2018)

Artist Talk with David Best and The Temple Crew (May 3, 2018)

SAAM Fellows’ Lectures in American Art, 2018 (May 2-4, 2018)

Contemporary Artists in Conversation with History: 1968 (April 4, 2018)

Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture with Professor Jennifer L. Roberts (March 29, 2018)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Abelardo Morell (November 15, 2017)

Tamayo: The New York Years Symposium (November 3, 2017)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Sebastian Smee (October 25, 2017)

Collecting Lumia (October 5, 2017)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Sylvia Yount (September 13, 2017)

Signal Processing and Art Conservation Lecture (July 20, 2017)

President Kennedy and His Legacy (July 13, 2017)

From Kennedy to Obama: A Conversation with White House Photographers (June 7, 2017)

A Conversation with Donald Sultan (June 1, 2017)

James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture (May 18, 2017)

Down These Mean Streets Poetry Reading (May 12, 2017)

Mickalene Thomas and Terri Lyne Carrington: Performance and Video (April 21, 2017)

Two Americas, One Place: Grandma Moses and Shirley Jackson (April 7, 2017)

For the Love of Gene Davis (March 10, 2017)

Harlem Heroes Talk (February 10, 2017)

Washington Art Scene in the 60s (January 12, 2017)

Curator Talk with Dakin Hart (December 1, 2016)

Artist talk with Albert Watson (November 9, 2016)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Edward Rothstein (November 2, 2016)

Folk And Self-taught Art Discussion (October 29, 2016)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Michael Lobel (October 27, 2016)

Director’s Choice (October 25, 2016)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Deborah Butterfield and Horse Sculptures (October 19, 2016)

Maloof Symposium: Furniture and the Future (September 16, 2016)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (September 14, 2016)

Conversation with Gabriel Dawe and Nora Atkinson (June 23, 2016)

Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman (June 17, 2016)

Artist Talk with Patrick Dougherty (May 20, 2016)

Artist and Entomologist Discussion (April 10, 2016)

Crosscurrents, Rethinking Modernism Today (April 1, 2016)

Artist talk with Maya Lin (February 26, 2016)

Artist talk with John Grade (February 28, 2016)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Amy Lyford (January 27, 2016)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Lawrence Weschler (November 4, 2015)

Crosscurrents Forum (October 30, 2015)

Irving Penn at the Intersection of Art, Fashion and Photography Forum (October 23, 2015)

Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History (October 16-17, 2015)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Christopher Knight (October 7, 2015)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Trevor Paglen (September 9, 2015)

An American Diary: Artist Talk with Roger Shimomura (August 20, 2015)

Video Games and Art Discussion Panel (August 12, 2015)

How Nam June Paik and Video Art Led a Good Abstract Painter Astray (July 8, 2015)

Nineteen American Masterworks (June 24, 2015)

Conserving and Curating Media Art (June 3, 2015)

Watch This! Revelations in Media Art Artist Panel Discussion (April 24, 2015)

Mark Bradford - Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture (April 20, 2015)

Curator talk: Reflections on the Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi (April 10, 2015)

The Decorative Impulse panel discussion (March 28, 2015)

The Craft Museum: Ideals and Practice (March 13, 2015)

Mingering Mike, Roundtable Remix (February 27, 2015)

Round Robin: An Artist Panel (February 3, 2015)

The Art of Memory and Mourning: A Symposium in Honor of Cynthia J. Mills (November 14, 2014)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series with Kathleen A. Foster (November 5, 2014)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series with Jerry Saltz (October 22, 2014)

An Evening with Richard Estes (October 10, 2014)

Exploring Castle Panel Discussion (October 2, 2014)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series with Eric Fischl (September 17, 2014)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Wendy Bellion (September 18, 2014)

Preserving Public Art: The Murals of Meg Saligman (June 11, 2014)

JRA Distinguished Artist Talk with Akio Takamori (June 1, 2014)

JRA Distinguished Artist Talk with Michael Janis (May 4, 2014)

Ralph Fasanella Discussion (May 2, 2014)

Artist April Gornik (April 1, 2014)

JRA ​Craft Artists and Educators Panel (March 29, 2014)

William Kloss Talk (March 7, 2014)

Latino Artists on Race, Representation, and African Diasporic Culture (February 6, 2014)

Carving Myths Out of History: The Dying Tecumseh (January 10, 2014)

Nam June Paik Father of Video Art (January 11, 2013)

Seeing War; Representing War (February 28, 2013)

Why the Civil War Still Matters to American Artists (March 13, 2013)

James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture with Inka Essenhigh (March 7, 2013)

Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War (April 5, 2013)

Nam June Paik: Art & Process (April 14, 2013)

Strange Music for Nam June Paik (April 14, 2013)

A Democracy of Images (June 28, 2013)

“Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art” with curator E. Carmen Ramos, Keynote Address, Clarice Smith National (July 9 & 30, 2013)

Landscapes in Passing Photographer Panel (September 12, 2013)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with artist Teresita Fernández (September 18, 2013)

Contemporary Art Jewelry in Perspective (September 20, 2013)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Leo Mazow (September 26, 2013)

American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora (October 4-5, 2013)

What is Latino about American Art? (October 25, 2013)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with critic Richard Lacayo (October 30, 2013)

DC Fotoweek with Documentary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark (November 05, 2013)

Defining and Defying Latino Art: A Conversation with Five Artists (November 7, 2013)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with scholar Barbara Haskell (November 20, 2013)

Landscapes and Containers: A Conversation (November 21, 2013)

Nolan Bushnell: Video Games in Retrospect (March 16, 2012)

Evolution of Video Games - The Future (March 16, 2012)

Evolution of Video Games - Pioneers (March 16, 2012)

It’s All in the Design with Robin Hunicke (March 17, 2012)

A Conversation with Hideo Kojima (March 17, 2012)

Game Change: Society and Culture (May 4, 2012)

Video Games at Work (May 4, 2012)

The Gamer and the Video Game (June 27, 2012) 

Clarice Smith National Teacher Institutes Keynote Address (July 10 & 31, 2012)

African American Art Curator Talk (August 1, 2012)

Electronic Gaming Before Pong with Don Daglow (September 8, 2012)

Level Up with curator Chris Melissinos and exhibition coordinator Georgina Goodlander (September 8, 2012)

Pixels and Painting with artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand (September 6, 2012)

Photography Changes Everything (September 12, 2012)

The Evolution of Art History and Future of Video Games (September 18, 2012)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with Kevin Salatino (September 19, 2012)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with Adam Gopnik (October 10, 2012)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Maurie D. McInnis (October 18, 2012) 

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with Kerry James Marshall (November 7, 2012)

Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture (November 8-9, 2012)

Effects of the Civil War on American Art (November 16, 2012)

Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner (January 2, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with Alexis Rockman (January 12, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with J.D. Talasek (February 9, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with Tom Lovejoy (February 23, 2011)

To Make a World with curator Alexander Nemerov (March 11, 2011)

History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 (March 26, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with Steve Monfort (March 30, 2011)

Collectors’ Roundtable with Bob Bennett (April 5, 2011)

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 with Ubaldo Vitali (April 17, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with Rhonda Roland Shearer (April 19, 2011)

Collectors’ Roundtable with Helen Zell (April 26, 2011)

Art & Science Lecture Series with Cristián Samper (April 27, 2011)

Featured Games for The Art of Video Games (May 5, 2011)

Collectors’ Roundtable with Robert Lehrman (May 10, 2011)

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 with Judith Schaechter (May 22, 2011)

Erased: Limits and Borders with Harry Gamboa Jr. (May 26, 2011)

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 with Cliff and Holly Lee (June 19, 2011)

Reenacting the Masters (July 8, 2011)

The Great American Experiment with Curator Claire Perry (July 14, 2011)

Paik’s Birthday with curator John Hanhardt and artist Jim Campbell (July 20, 2011)

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 with Matthias Pliessnig (July 30, 2011)

Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute Keynote Address (August 1, 2011)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art with Author Meryle Secrest (September 14, 2011)

Clarice Smith National Teacher Institutes Keynote Address (September 18, 2011)

Something of Splendor with Curator William Allman (October 1, 2011)

Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America (October 5-6, 2011)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art with Artist Elizabeth Peyton (October 12, 2011)

A First Hand Experience with Susan Ford Bales (October 13, 2011)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art with Artist Julie Mehretu (November 2, 2011)

A Conversation with Internet Inventors (November 9, 2011)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Kristina Wilson (November 10, 2011)

Washington Printmakers (November 16, 2011)

Conversation with Collector Alan Rothschild (December 1, 2011)

Intersections/ Intersecciones (September 10, 2010)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with scholar Erica Hirshler (September 15, 2010)

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection (September 24, 2010)

The Pond with photographer John Gossage (October 12, 2010)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with critic Mark Feeney (October 27, 2010)

Haiti Cultural Recovery Project (November 8, 2010)

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with artist Sarah Sze (November 16, 2010)

Eldredge Prize Lecture with Kirk Savage (December 1, 2010)

Global Approaches to Public Art, Placemaking, and National Commemoration (December 8, 2010)