This October we are re-watching some old, classic creepy movies and finding a similar mood in artworks from the museum’s collection.
Sara Snyder
| October 27, 2020
“I’ll take Alexander von Humboldt for $500, Alex.”
Katie Hondorf
| September 30, 2020
SAAM's artworks bring the author back to her beloved Morocco without having to leave home.
Libby Weiler
| September 3, 2020
A special Handi-hour program that explores the connections between craft and suffrage.
Gloria Kenyon
| August 25, 2020
Ever wonder what it takes to conserve and preserve video games? Our collections care initiative fellow at SAAM tells us how.
Shu-Wen Lin
| August 17, 2020
A closer look at three Native women artists in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection
Karen Canova
| August 6, 2020
How a recent acquisition addresses themes of race and LGBTQ+ identity
Saisha Grayson
| June 30, 2020
Taking a deeper look at how we talk about gay artists at SAAM
Saisha Grayson
| June 18, 2020
Still looking for the right card? SAAM celebrates all mother figures with artworks from our collection.
Amy Fox
| May 8, 2020
Conservator Ariel O'Connor unearths the mysteries behind Charles Willson Peale’s mastodon.
Ariel O’Connor
| April 29, 2020
In our time of social distancing, Obata's handwritten notes have us thinking about how we communicate with one another, and how important a simple note can be.
Katie Hondorf
| April 27, 2020
Dr. Advait Mahesh Jukar, a Deep Time Fellow and Paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, talks with us about mastodons.
Libby Weiler
| April 24, 2020
How a graphic designer at SAAM was inspired to incorporate Humboldt's ideas about nature into the exhibition catalogue
Katie Hondorf
| April 23, 2020
Humboldt's ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists, including the influential Hudson River school painters
Katie Hondorf
| April 22, 2020
Because at SAAM everything eventually comes back to American art, some of us have been inspired to model our sweet, sassy, bored, annoyed, sleepy, amusing pets after favorite artworks in our collection. We offer them as amusement and inspiration, and as evidence of the creativity and sense of humor we appreciate in each other.
Amy Fox
| April 21, 2020
Bring nature indoors in this easy-to-do craft inspired by explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
Gloria Kenyon
| April 20, 2020
Instructions for an easy cherry blossom craft to make at home
Gloria Kenyon
| April 1, 2020
Transform your Zoom virtual background or computer desktop into a work of art
Sara Snyder
| April 1, 2020
Join us at SAAM for the second Women Filmmakers Festival March 6 and 7
Saisha Grayson
| February 24, 2020
The groundbreaking exhibition at the Renwick features more than 80 works from antiquity to the present
Teri Greeves
| February 19, 2020
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