Artist Talk: Kate Lowman, the big world of post-production photography
• September 6, 2024

Artist Talk for exhibit: leaf & luminosity I always begin with photography, but I never know what the end result of my work will be. Inevitably, my photographs end up […]

Women’s History Month: Bountiful Baskets
• March 14, 2024

Visit the National Museum of the American Indian and learn about the art of basketweaving from Indigenous women as they share the beauty of Native basketry and the significance of […]

Photojournalism Now: Students Respond
• February 8, 2024

How has photojournalism changed over the last century? Join us in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People for talks led by photojournalism students from the Corcoran School of the Arts […]

Moon Time: A Table Read
• January 23, 2024

Join us as for a live table reading from the pilot episode Moon Time, a screenplay written by Dr. Elizabeth Rule (Chickasaw Nation) of American University. Inspired by real events, […]

Sky Hopinka: Wandering Translations, Poems, and Film
• October 10, 2023

Join us for a conversation with Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), a New York based artist and poet, who teaches at Bard College. His film, video, photography, […]

Mondrian’s Dress
• September 20, 2023

Join an in-depth presentation on issues of authorship and (mistaken) identity raised by Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 series of so-called Mondrian dresses. Nancy J. Troy, Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center […]

In-Person Converse with a Conservator: James Hampton’s Throne
• July 18, 2023

Join SAAM’s Lunder Conservation Fellow Katya Zinsli for an exploration of the ongoing conservation efforts surrounding one of SAAM’s most iconic artworks: James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven […]

In-Person Art Bites Gallery Talk
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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 […]

In-Person Lecture: Winslow Homer: The Man Behind the Art
• February 9, 2023

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 […]

Art Bites Gallery Talk
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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 […]