Join Keara Teeter, the Meisel Conservator of Modern American Paintings, for a gallery talk about the conservation process for artworks in SAAM’s Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justiceexhibition. Discover how art meets science through conserving and preparing select paintings for travel and display in the museum’s galleries. Free | Registration encouraged Smithsonian American Art Museum, […]

Curious about American art? Join us for a 30-minute in person conversation about selected works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection. This program is presented in American Sign Language (ASL) with voice interpretation for hearing participants.   Smithsonian American Art Museum; Meet in the F Street Lobby   Free | Registration required  

Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one tells us about an ever-changing culture in the United States. Natalie E. Wright, George Gurney Predoctoral Fellow, discusses Andrew Clemens’ Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle). Image/credit: Andrew Clemens, Untitled (The […]

Join Janneken Smucker, professor of history at West Chester University, and Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art, for an in-depth tour of SAAM’s exhibition Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women. Learn more about the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States between 1880 and 1950, as well as the stories of the […]

Join Pattern and Paradox contributor and textile historian Janneken Smucker for insights into the history of Amish quilts and the works featured in SAAM’s exhibition, Pattern and Paradox, that were donated to SAAM by Faith and Stephen Brown. Smucker traces the journey of quilts from Amish homes to SAAM, revealing the ways the quilts’ limitless colors and patterns delight the eye […]