Virtual and In-Person Programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery in Washington DC
Join us for upcoming virtual and in-person programs. Enjoy American art no matter where you are. Please see each program listing for details; registration is required via Eventbrite.
Programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
February 2023 Programs
Art Signs Virtual Tour: Artful Conversations in ASL
Thursday, Feb. 9, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. EST
Curious about American art? Join us for a 30-minute virtual 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. A Zoom link will be provided via email upon registration.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free | Registration required via Eventbrite
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In-Person Cafritz Young Artists Performance
Friday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m. EST
SAAM and the Renwick Gallery are delighted to welcome back the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artists. Join these inspiring performers for an afternoon of music and drama, featuring scenes from classic operatic masterworks like La Bohème and more recent pieces like Blue.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free | Registration required via Eventbrite
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Virtual Studio Tour with Artist David Harper Clemons
Thursday, Feb. 16, 7- 8 p.m. EST
Join metalsmith David Harper Clemons for the final visit of SAAM’s Virtual Studio Tour series. Clemons takes the audience on a tour of his North Carolina-based studio, where he creates art that explores identity and gives meaning to objects that extend beyond their expected uses.
Prior to his relocation to North Carolina, Clemons taught in the art department of University of Arkansas in Little Rock, w here he created and headed the metalsmithing and jewelry department. Participants have the opportunity to see the tools Clemons regularly uses in his work and ask him questions in a live chat. Clemons’s artwork The Weight of Deferred Gratification, is featured in This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery. Attendees can register for this program starting Feb. 2.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free | Registration required.
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In-Person Lecture: Winslow Homer: The Man Behind the Art
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 6:45 p.m. EST
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) has often been called America’s favorite painter. Like his contemporaries Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless spirit of invention transforming his world.
In a new biography, Winslow Homer: American Passage, William R. Cross unveils Homer’s surprising role in American culture. Homer was witness to both the rhythms of sea, storm, tide, and season as well as the U.S. Civil War, colonial tyranny, industrialization, and the challenge of achieving a just and equitable society. In an illustrated presentation, Cross reveals the man behind the art and the unpredictable story of a life led on the front lines of history.
Copies of Winslow Homer: American Passage will be available for purchase and signing. This program is presented in partnership with Smithsonian Associates, and made possible in part by Mary Anne Goley. Tickets are required. William R. Cross is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums.
Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum; McAvoy Auditorium
Tickets: SI Associates members: $20/ Non-members: $25 using CODE: 1L0-503
Registration required via SI Associates
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In-Person Art Bites Gallery Talk
Friday, Feb. 24, 12:15 – 1 p.m. EST
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 America’s ever-changing culture. Fellow Madeleine Harrison discusses Loïs Mailou Jones’s Les Fétiches (1938).
Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Meet in G Street Lobby
Tickets: Free
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For more information on this museum, visit our Smithsonian American Art Museum page.
Event listings are provided by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
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