SAAM Stories
Exhibitions
09/30/2022
Collector Douglas O. Robson offers insights into his mother’s collecting habits, her dedication to self-taught artists, and his own collecting journey.
Kelly Skeen
Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and work
Howard Kaplan
Writer
Women Artists
09/22/2022
The comic series Drawn to Art, published online by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, features tales of inspiring women artists.
Howard Kaplan
Writer
Artist Chawne Kimber stitches her experiences and activism in vibrant, improvisational-style quilts
SAAM
Remixing classical ceramics and underrepresented figures with a hip-hop style
SAAM
Exploring the life of a celebrated labor rights activist through his portrait
Rebekah Mejorado
Public Relations Specialist
The decadent inspiration behind Lauren Mabry's ceramics
SAAM
The Little Friends of Printmaking have created posters for the Renwick Gallery including for the current exhibition, This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Amy Hutchins
SAAM Marketing Manager
Creating visual descriptions to help blind or low vision visitors experience and appreciate works of art
Hannah Owh
Coloring books can offer space for creativity or release for children and adults. Inspired by artwork in SAAM’s collection, while away a quiet afternoon with some art supplies and our coloring sheets.
Amy Fox
Social Media and Digital Content Specialist
Luce Foundation Center
07/19/2022
The Luce Listening Party with Hometown Sounds comes to an end! In this final episode, listen to some outtakes that didn’t make the final podcasts.
Bridget Callahan
Luce Program Coordinator
Celebrate the ways these essential art elements show up in video games.
Lauren Kolodkin
External Affairs and Digital Strategies Assistant
Multimedia artist Sharon Kerry-Harlan pieces together portraits of contemporary Black American life using materials and symbols from the past and present
SAAM
Exhibitions
06/29/2022
Discover how the creativity and bold self-definition of untrained artists became major forces in American art.
SAAM
In his all too short career, the photographer rejected conventional codes of identity and insisted on new, ambiguous conditions of being.
Melissa Ho
Curator (20th-Century Art)
Artist L.J. Roberts integrates queer theory with traditional “domestic crafts” such as knitting and embroidery.
SAAM
Celebrating Pride with paintings by two artists whose lives intersected and whose artworks explore similar themes
Howard Kaplan
Writer
Online volunteers learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia by creating or updating articles related to the history of fifty women sculptors in the United States
Kelly Doyle
Sonoe Nakasone