Translating a Visual Experience
Creating visual descriptions to help blind or low vision visitors experience and appreciate works of art
Eye Level
Eye Level is the blog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Publishing behind-the-scenes museum stories since 2005.
Expression or Meditation: Coloring Pages for All Ages
Coloring books can offer space for creativity or release for children and adults. Inspired by artwork in SAAM’s collection, while away a quiet afternoon with some art supplies and our coloring sheets.
Luce Listening Party with Hometown Sounds comes to a close
The Luce Listening Party with Hometown Sounds comes to an end! In this final episode, listen to some outtakes that didn’t make the final podcasts.
Drawing the Lines to Connect Video Games and Art
Celebrate the ways these essential art elements show up in video games.
Contemporary Craft in Focus: Portrait of Resilience
Multimedia artist Sharon Kerry-Harlan pieces together portraits of contemporary Black American life using materials and symbols from the past and present
We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists Featured in the National Collection
We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists Featured in the National Collection
Discover how the creativity and bold self-definition of untrained artists became major forces in American art.
Performing Ambiguity: The Art of Tseng Kwong Chi
In his all too short career, the photographer rejected conventional codes of identity and insisted on new, ambiguous conditions of being.
Contemporary Craft in Focus: The Queer Houses of Brooklyn
Contemporary Craft in Focus: The Queer Houses of Brooklyn
Artist L.J. Roberts integrates queer theory with traditional “domestic crafts” such as knitting and embroidery.
Artists, Friends, Lovers: Paul Cadmus and George Tooker
Celebrating Pride with paintings by two artists whose lives intersected and whose artworks explore similar themes
Closing the Gender Gap: Seeing American Women Sculptors in Wikipedia
Online volunteers learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia by creating or updating articles related to the history of fifty women sculptors in the United States
Contemporary Craft in Focus: Warrior with Color Face
Contemporary Craft in Focus: Warrior with Color Face
Sculptor Wanxin Zhang explores history, politics, and culture through clay
This Present Moment is Here and Now
New exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery
Crafting a Better World
SAAM’s director on the exhibition This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Contemporary Craft in Focus: Harlem Hellfighters
Learn more about artist Bisa Butler's vivid portraits of African American heroes from World War I
Podcast Release: Music and Conversation with Broke Royals
SAAM's Luce Foundation Center is teaming up with DC local music podcast Hometown Sounds to bring you music and conversations from your favorite artists.
Why I Am Not a Painter: on Michael Goldberg's Sardines
What happens when poet Frank O'Hara walks into Mike Goldberg's studio while he's working on a painting?
Refreshing a View of Venice: How Paper Conservators Clean a Print
SAAM conservator Kate Maynor explains the delicate process of washing paper
Depicting Love in Diane Arbus’s A woman with her baby monkey, 1971
An unexpected email reveals more about the subject of one of Diane Arbus’s celebrated portraits