| In her summer letter, Director Stephanie Stebich shares her thoughts on exhibitions to be excited about. |
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SAAM's Director Celebrates New Visitors and New Exhibitions In her latest letter, Stephanie Stebich, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director, discusses an increase in visitors to SAAM and a robust schedule of dynamic new exhibitions that may even have you dancing! She shares the latest updates on the reinstallation of the modern and contemporary artworks in American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art, the reimagined third-floor galleries reopening in the fall.
Dedicated to reaching American art lovers, wherever they are, Stebich reminds readers of SAAM's continued commitment to online programming. |
| | “While it is energizing to see the museum’s physical spaces filled, our online audience is growing too. We are committed to presenting important conversations about art online for our national, and global, audiences.” — Stephanie Stebich |
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| | Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
On view through January 29, 2024
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Explore the powerful resonances between recent video art and popular music in Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies. The exhibition celebrates major new acquisitions to SAAM’s media art collection by today's leading contemporary artists and pairs recently added video works by ADÁL, Raven Chacon, Mariam Ghani, Martine Gutierrez, Arthur Jafa, Erin Ellen Kelly, Christine Sun Kim, Liz Magic Laser, Simone Leigh, and Cauleen Smith with immersive installations and compelling photographs, sculptures, and prints. |
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| | Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
On view through March 31, 2024
Renwick Gallery Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023focuses on fresh and nuanced visions by six Native American or Alaska Native artists who express the honors and burdens that connect people to one another. The 55 artworks in the exhibition arise from traditions of making that honor family, community or clan, and require broad community participation. |
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| | Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Opens July 28
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ideas about the American West, both in popular culture and in commonly accepted historical narratives, are often based on a past that never was, and fail to take into account important events that actually occurred. The exhibition Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea examines the perspectives of 48 modern and contemporary artists who offer a broader and more inclusive view of this region, which too often has been dominated by romanticized myths and Euro-American historical accounts. |
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| | American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art
Opens September 22
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Join SAAM for the opening of American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art, our renovated and reimagined galleries on the third floor. The redesigned spaces include the recently acquired major video installation by Carrie Mae Weems, Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me—A Story in Five Parts. Other recent acquisitions that will find homes on the third floor include works by Firelei Báez, Tseng Kwong Chi, Audrey Flack, Alison Saar, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kay WalkingStick, among others. |
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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. |
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Image Credits: SAAM's Director Stephanie Stebich in front of Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral. Photo by Libby Weiler
Cauleen Smith, Sojourner, 2018, digital video, color, sound, 22:41 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the SJ Weiler Fund, 2020.54.1, © 2020, Cauleen Smith
Lily Hope, Memorial Beats, 2021, thigh-spun merino and cedar bark with copper, headphones, and audio files, 16 x 4 x 10 in., The Hope Family Trust. Photo by Sydney Akagi
Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, The Protagonist of an Endless Story, 1993, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1996.19. © 1993, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz
Audrey Flack, Queen, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, 2022.11.5 |
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