SAAM Stories
08/11/2021
Nora Atkinson, curator-in-charge of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, reflects on an unprecedented year and a half and the universal force of nature
Nora Atkinson
The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery
08/09/2021
Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier creates art from buffalo horn, a material with a deep ancestral and cultural connection
Mary Savig
Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft
08/06/2021
We look at themes from ¡Printing the Revolution! as discussed in conversations between the artists, curators, and scholars
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
08/03/2021
Leslie Thornton’s feminist punk reset of experimental filmmaking’s aims and inclusions tackles issues we still grapple with today.
Saisha Grayson
Curator of Time-Based Media
07/30/2021
Go in-depth with ¡Printing the Revolution's! iconic image
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/29/2021
Bartees Strange warns us against creating musical silos and describes how DC’s rich legacy of Black musicianship shaped his goals and his worldview.
Anne Wilsey
Program Specialist for the Luce Foundation Center
07/22/2021
SAAM Arcade is back with a new virtual program format, the museum’s first-ever Game Jam. Learn more about what a game jam is in this blog post!
Lauren Kolodkin
External Affairs and Digital Strategies Assistant
07/21/2021
Artist Melanie Cervantes explores indigeneity, identity, and activism in her printmaking practice
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/20/2021
Three years ago we imagined the letters of nineteenth-century portrait sitters to Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix’s series Queer Eye. With so many of us looking for advice about how to tame our unmanageable pandemic hair, we thought we’d take another look.
Howard Kaplan
Writer
07/16/2021
A close exploration of a resilient community through the lens of three women photographers
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
07/12/2021
SAAM’s third floor galleries for modern and contemporary art are closed to the public temporarily beginning Monday, July 12 to make way for new artworks and new stories.
Katie Hondorf
Public Affairs Specialist
07/07/2021
Senior Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey takes readers behind the scenes of an exhibition’s 17-month run
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Senior Curator (19th-Century Art)
07/02/2021
The artist focused on health and happiness, for herself and others, during the pandemic.
Mary Savig
Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft
06/30/2021
Claudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAM
Claudia Zapata
Former Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art
06/29/2021
Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.
Geoffrey Cohrs
Docent Coordinator