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Featured Program
Handi-hour Pop-up
Wednesday, June 25, 5–7 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Kogod Courtyard
Free | Registration encouraged
Tickets Available Beginning June 2
Craft to your heart’s delight at this special Handi-hour pop-up at the Smithsonian American Art Museum! Create a custom, miniature felt pennant (while supplies last), check out the Courtyard Café for snack and beverage options, and explore the galleries with a scavenger hunt.
This Handi-hour pop-up is free and open to all ages! We encourage registration to aid us in our planning for the program. |
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| | Converse with a Conservator: Time-Based Media Art
Tuesday, June 3, 5:30 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in G Street Lobby
Free | Registration required Join time-based media conservator Dan Finn for a gallery talk discussing SAAM’s installation of Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island. Learn more about this single-channel video artwork and how SAAM cares for time-based media collections. |
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| | Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC
Thursday, June 5, 12:15 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Kogod Courtyard
Free | Registration required
Join the Rock Creek Singers, the chamber ensemble of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, as they perform choral arrangements of popular songs. |
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| | Take 5: Jazz at SAAM with DC’s Different Drummers
Thursday, June 12, 5–7 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Kogod Courtyard
Free | Registration encouraged
Celebrate a uniquely American art form with Take 5: Jazz at SAAM, a series of free, live performances in the Kogod Courtyard. DC’s Different Drummers, an LGBTQ+ non-profit music organization, brings their DCDD Jazz Band, a 23-piece big band and a small improvisational combo called 2nd Independence, to perform a selection of jazz arrangements of popular Pride anthems, past and present.
Borrow a board game to play during the concert and stop by the Courtyard Café to purchase refreshments. We encourage registration to aid us in our planning for the program. |
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| | Art in the A.M.
Wednesday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in G Street Lobby
Free | Registration required Inspire early childhood creativity with SAAM during Art in the A.M. Children ages up to 5 years and their caregivers are invited to the museum before hours to learn, connect, and create in the galleries. During this program, participants will explore landscapes and scenes of American life in the Experience America galleries on SAAM’s first floor, followed by a hands-on diorama crafting activity in the MacMillan Education Center. |
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| | Eye-Popping Art: Tours for People with Colorblindness
Thursday, June 26, 5:30 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in F Street Lobby
Free | Registration required Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a docent-led tour of highlights from the museum’s collection using museum-provided, colorblind correcting glasses that bring the vibrancy of these works to life. |
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| | Art Bites Gallery Talk
Friday, June 27, 12:15 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Free | Meet in G Street Lobby 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 what each one tells us about the ever-changing cultural landscape of the United States. Michelle Donnelly, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, discusses Miné Okubo’s Wind and Dust (1943), on view in the exhibition Pictures of Belonging. |
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| | Conservation Workshop: Caring for Frames
Saturday, June 28, 9 a.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
MacMillan Education Center
$30 | Registration required
Tickets available beginning June 9. Join retired frames conservator Martin Kotler in a gallery talk about his work conserving SAAM’s frames for over 42 years followed by a hands-on workshop to learn about frames conservation, repair, and stabilization methods.
Attendees will receive a kit containing materials that they can use at home for frame care.
Participants may not bring their own frames to the workshop. |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is able to create and share experiences like these thanks to funding from generous supporters like you. Thank you for ensuring that American art is available to all. Donate to support SAAM. |
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| | Image Credits: Handi-hour; Photo by Norwood Photography
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC; Photo by Ronté Pierce
Photo courtesy DC’s Different Drummers
Morris Kantor, Baseball at Night, 1934, oil on linen, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Morris Kantor, 1976.146.18
Eye Popping Art Tour; Photo by Mary Tait
Miné Okubo, Wind and Dust, 1943, opaque watercolor on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2023.46.3, © 2023, The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation |
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