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Sara Snyder

Sara Snyder is a pop culture enthusiast who moonlights as the head of External Affairs and Digital Strategies at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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A drawing of a bat.

What We Do In the Art Museum Shadows

SAAM's staff has been streaming so many episodes of this hilarious vampire mockumentary series that the characters now appear to be haunting the museum halls.

Will Cotton,

Top Ten Favorite Holiday Movies as Seen in American Art

What is cozier than watching old holiday movies on a chilly winter’s night? Pairing them up with favorite artworks from SAAM's collection, that’s what.

Jennifer Angus,

Twelve Classic Halloween Movies Paired with Boo-tiful Artworks

This October we are re-watching some old, classic creepy movies and finding a similar mood in artworks from the museum’s collection.

Choose your background. A little bit country...with Albert Bierstadt's

The Art of the Teleconference

Transform your Zoom virtual background or computer desktop into a work of art