In support of scholarship, the museum organizes and co-hosts a variety of symposia and colloquia.
2023
2020
Stemming the Tide - March 5–6, 2020
Lecture Series: The World of Alexander von Humboldt - September – October, 2020
A Half Century of Fellowship: Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium - October 9, 2020
2019
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor Symposium - February 22, 2019
Artists Respond: A Symposium - March 15, 2019
2018
Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa - September 14, 2018
2017
The Course of Empires: American-Italian Cultural Relations, 1770-1980 - October 19-20, 2017
“A line that birds cannot see”: Mexican/US Art and Artists Crossing Borders in the 20th Century - November 3, 2017
2016
Maloof Symposium: Furniture and the Future - September 16, 2016
Livestream from Rome: Hybrid Republicanism: Italy and American Art, 1840-1918 - October 6-7, 2016
2015
The Craft Museum: Ideals and Practice - March 13, 2015
Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History - October 16-17, 2015
Irving Penn at the Intersection of Art, Fashion and Photographer Forum - October 23, 2015
2014
The Art of Memory and Mourning: A Symposium in Honor of Cynthia J. Mills - November 14, 2014
2013
American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora - October 4-5, 2013
2012
Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture - November 8-9, 2012
Effects of the Civil War on American Art - November 16, 2012
2011
Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America - October 5-6, 2011
2009
East-West Interchanges in American Art - October 1-2, 2009
2008
Words Matter! The 20th Anniversary of the Eldredge Prize - September 12, 2008
2007
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Symposium - September 7, 2007
2006
American Art in a Global Context Symposium - September 29-30, 2006