Art in America Guide

Glenn Kaino: Bridge
2024-07-26 08:00 - 2028-07-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Smithsonian American Art Museum, 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head and raised his black-gloved fist in a symbolic act of protest. Coming at a moment of turmoil in the United States, where public unrest flared over the war in Vietnam, racial discrimination and inequality, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, his gesture was an assertion of Black solidarity in the fight for human rights. Echoed by the American bronze medalist John Carlos, it inspired social causes around the world and irrevocably changed Smith’s own life.
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Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
2025-03-07 11:00 - 2027-12-31 18:00 | San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.
Organized into thematic groupings, Tending and Dreaming offers poetic starting points for engaging with ideas woven through the works of almost fifty artists from the Bay Area and beyond, including Ruth Asawa, Martha Atienza, Shilpa Gupta, Yolanda López, and Elias Sime, among many others.
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Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood's Monotypes
2026-02-02 - 2027-02-02 | IFPDA Viewing Room
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes.
Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and textures, emphasizing its physical materiality as a substance and producing results distinctly different from working with watercolor in an unmediated, direct manner on paper. Ledgerwood’s signature quatrefoil shapes, loose, diagonal grids, floral and yonic symbols, references to quilts and the “feminine arts” and intense, penetrating colors are found throughout the monotype series.
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Sarah Smelser: Sandia
2026-02-02 - 2027-02-02 | NY
Sarah Smelser’s “Sandia” images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
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Array: A Woodcut Opus by Rupert Deese
2026-02-02 08:00 - 2027-02-02 17:00 | NY
“Array” are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and inscribed circles, producing intricate, balanced configurations that are unique to each work.
While firmly abstract, the Array images maintain a subtle relationship to the landscapes and watersheds of California’s upper Merced and Tuolumne Rivers—regions central to the artist’s experience and to his larger practice. The suite can be understood as an extended meditation on these geographies, translating their rhythms and structures into ordered, contemplative visual systems.
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Motherboards
2026-04-10 11:00 - 2027-01-10 17:00 | San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Not simply users of technology, women have played vital roles as inventors and makers across the history of technology. Yet their contributions aren’t always acknowledged in popular and official histories of technological innovation. Motherboards brings together artists whose work foregrounds the many ways that women have shaped the technology industry.
Motherboards highlights the central role of women in technology in three primary ways: by tracing the links between computers and the traditionally feminine practice of weaving; by exploring the legacy of women “computers” in the early twentieth century; and by attending to the women whose hands have materialized the technologies we use every day. Featuring artists from California and beyond, the exhibition maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and garages to looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.
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FREE Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day
2026-12-27 12:00 - 17:00 | NSU Art Museum, 1 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33301, United States
Every LAST Sunday of every month, Fort Lauderdale residents receive FREE admission to NSU Art Museum as part of Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Days.
Fort Lauderdale Residents Receive:

2-for-1 Wine in the Museum Café
FREE admission, residents must show a photo ID, driver’s license, or residential utility bill with proof of Fort Lauderdale address.
Visit the Museum Cafe & Store and receive 10% off books published by NSU Art Museum.

Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day is made possible by the City of Fort Lauderdale.
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