Smithsonian
American Art
Museum
2013 Fall Calendar
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Exhibitions
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
October 25, 2013–March 2, 2014
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents
more than ninety works of art across all media by significant
Latino artists active from the 1950s to today, and gives voice
to their broader American experience. Drawn entirely from
the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores how Latino artists shaped the
artistic movements of their day and recalibrated key themes
in American art and culture.
Latino artists across the United States were galvanized by the
civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They created
new images of their communities and celebrated hybrid
cultural traditions. Approaching their practice with humor,
irony, and valor, Latino artists critically probed American history
and popular culture, revealing the possibilities and tensions of
expansionism, migration, and settlement. Many devoted
themselves to artistic experimentation, pushing the limits of
their chosen medium. Our America shows how Latino artists
tackled classic American themes and actively participated in
the artistic movements of their day. It presents a picture of an
evolving national culture that challenges expectations of what
is meant by “American” and “Latino.”
The exhibition will introduce more than sixty newly acquired
artworks for the museum’s permanent collection. Our
America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized
by E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Latino art.
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized
by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support
for the exhibition has been provided by Altria Group, Aida M.
Alvarez, Judah Best, The James F. Dicke Family Endowment,
Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Tania and Tom Evans,
Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, and
The Michael A. and the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Mennello
Endowment. Additional significant support was provided by
The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian
Latino Center. Support for Treasures to Go, the Museum’s
traveling exhibition program, comes from C.F. Foundation,
Atlanta, Georgia.
left: Freddy Rodríguez, Danza de Carnaval, 1974, acrylic, Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H.
Denghausen Endowment, ©1974, Freddy Rodríguez
opposite above: Man Ray, (Électricité) Le Souffle, 1931, photogravure,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
opposite below: Steve Fitch, Motel, Highway 66, Holbrook, Arizona, 1973,
gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the
National Endowment for the Arts, ©1976, Steve Fitch
Exhibitions
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Through January 5, 2014
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum showcases 113 photographs selected
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent
collection. The exhibition celebrates the thirtieth anniversary
of the establishment of the museum’s photography collection and showcases the numerous ways the medium has
captured the American experience.
It includes work by artists Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus,
Mathew B. Brady, William Christenberry, Roy DeCarava,
Walker Evans, Annie Leibovitz, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Irving
Penn, Trevor Paglen, and William Wegman. Landscapes,
portraits, and everyday scenes trace the evolution of photography in America from a purely documentary medium to a
full-fledged artistic genre. The exhibition’s title is inspired by
American poet Walt Whitman’s belief that photography
provided America with a new, democratic art form that
matched the spirit of the young country.
The exhibition is organized by Merry Foresta, guest curator
and independent consultant for the arts. Foresta was the
museum’s curator of photography from 1983 to 1999. A
complementary website designed for viewing on tablets
includes photographs on view in the exhibition, an expanded
selection of works from the museum’s collection, and a
timeline of American photography. It is available through
tablet stations in the exhibition galleries, and on mobile
devices and computers at AmericanArt.si.edu/photographs.
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum is made possible with generous
support from Saundra B. Lane, Lisa and John Pritzker, The
Crown Equipment Exhibitions Endowment, The Margery
and Edgar Masinter Exhibitions Fund, and The Bernie
Stadiem Endowment Fund.
Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch,
Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
Through January 20, 2014
Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick,
and Elaine Mayes presents forty-eight photographs that depict the
American landscape as seen from the road from 1971 to 1980.
These images invoke an increasingly mobile society and the
distanced relationship to the natural world that it encourages. The
photographs by Fitch, from his series Diesels and Dinosaurs, capture
the typical sights and attractions that define roadside America. Flick’s
pieces are drawn from photographs of Los Angeles neighborhoods,
taken while he traversed the streets. Mayes’s photographs, from her
Autolandscapes series, present America as seen from a moving car
window. The artworks in this installation were selected by Lisa
Hostetler, the museum’s McEvoy Family Curator for Photography.
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Exhibitions at the Renwick
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
October 4–December 8, 2013
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets celebrates the generous gift of seventynine baskets to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the noted collectors Steven R. Cole and Martha G. Ware.
The gift more than doubles the museum’s collection of contemporary baskets, making it one of the leading public
collections of this craft. Nearly all of the works in the exhibition were purchased by the collectors directly from the
artists and will be on public display for the first time at the Renwick Gallery, the museum’s branch for craft and
decorative art.
The baskets, made between 1983 and 2011, demonstrate the indigenous, African, and European basket weaving
traditions in the United States. The Cole-Ware collection presents an encyclopedic view of this medium and is notable
for the care with which examples were collected. The sixty-three weavers represented fashion their baskets almost
entirely from un-dyed native materials—grasses, trees, vines, and bark—that they have gathered. The forms—from
baskets for eggs, harvest, and market to those for sewing, laundry, and fishing creels—reveal the central role basketry
has played in the everyday life of Americans.
Nicholas R. Bell, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art, organized the exhibition
and authored the catalogue; it is distributed by University of North Carolina Press, and will be available for $50
(hardcover) in the museum store and online at AmericanArt.si.edu/shop.
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets is organized by the
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The James Renwick Alliance and
Margot Heckman generously support the exhibition. Additional support for the accompanying
exhibition film was provided by the National Basketry Organization and Wonder Laboratories.
above: Peggie Wilcox, Changing Winds, 2008, Western red cedar bark, American bulrush,
and maidenhair fern stem, Promised gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
Exhibitions at the Renwick
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby
October 4–December 8, 2013
Wayne Higby is one of the most innovative artists to come out of the post–World War II ceramic studio movement. His vision
of the American landscape appears in work ranging from vessel forms and sculpture to architectural installations that have
brought him national and international recognition. Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby is the first major retrospective exhibition to provide an in-depth critical analysis of the artist’s body of work created over a forty-year period. The
exhibition explores the forms, techniques, and firing processes used throughout Higby's career, focusing specifically on
his groundbreaking work in raku earthenware as well as his later production in porcelain.
The exhibition features more than sixty ceramic objects and drawings from the Arizona State University Art Museum’s
collection, the artist’s holdings, and other private and public collections, including two major works from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. Since the early 1970s, Higby has explored the fusion of form and surface decoration
through panoramic western vistas. These scenic forms are imaginative reinterpretations of the austere Colorado landscape
of his childhood. After visiting China in 1991, Higby began using porcelain with celadon glazes and creating thick “rocks”
that alluded to the natural environment. During the last decade, Higby has undertaken several ambitious large-scale mural
projects, represented in the exhibition through photo documentation and maquettes of the commissions.
Higby is currently a professor and the Robert C. Turner Chair of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics,
Alfred University. The Renwick Gallery is the exhibition’s second stop on a national tour. A catalogue will be on sale for
$85 (hardcover) in the museum store.
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby is organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum
Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, and curated by Curator of Ceramics Peter Held. Major funding is
provided by the Windgate Charitable Foundation with additional support from the Marlin Miller Jr. Family
Foundation; The Robert C. Turner Chair Endowment Fund, Alfred University; and the Friends of Contemporary
Ceramics. The James Renwick Alliance supports the presentation at the Renwick Gallery.
opposite: Wayne Higby, Temple's Gate Pass, 1988, hand-built, glazed earthenware, raku-fired, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift of KPMG Peat Marwick, ©1988, Wayne Higby
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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Latino Americans,
PBS Documentary Screening
Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.
See program details on page 21.
McEvoy Auditorium
What is Latino about American Art?
Friday, October 25, 6 p.m.
Our America exhibition curator,
E. Carmen Ramos, examines
how Latino artists working since
the mid–twentieth century have
participated in American art
movements and recalibrated
key themes in American art.
McEvoy Auditorium
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
especially thanks Julie Walters and Sam Rose
for their endowment gift, which supports the
museum’s public programs.
above: Emilio Sánchez, Untitled, Bronx Storefront, "La Rumba
Supermarket," late 1980s, watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of the Emilio Sánchez Foundation, ©Emilio Sánchez Foundation.
below left: E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Latino Art
Defining and Defying
Latino Art: A Conversation with Five Artists
Thursday, November 7, 6 p.m.
Join us for an engaging conversation with Elia Alba, María
Martínez-Cañas, Miguel Luciano, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Jesús
Moroles, five contemporary artists working across the United States.
How do these artists see their work in relation to artistic categories
such as Chicano, Puerto Rican, Latino, American, and beyond? What
are the most conducive frames in which to present and engage their
multi-faceted artwork? Moderated by exhibition curator E. Carmen
Ramos. Seating is limited; tickets available beginning at 5:30 p.m.
on a first come, first served basis in the museum’s G Street Lobby.
McEvoy Auditorium
This program is presented in conjunction with the conference Latino
Art Now! Nuestra América: Expanding Perspectives in American Art,
which is organized by the Inter-University Program for Latino Research
(IUPLR) headquartered at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the
Smithsonian Latino Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Our America Gallery Talk
Wednesday, December 11, 6 p.m.
Exhibition curator E. Carmen Ramos leads a gallery tour of the
exhibition Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.
Meet in G Street Lobby
All About Art
Democracy of Images and Landscapes in Passing
Landscapes in Passing Photographer Panel
Thursday, September 12, 7 p.m.
Landscapes in Passing photographers Steve Fitch,
Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes will discuss their work.
The conversation, facilitated by curator Lisa Hostetler, will
focus on how all three photographers challenged traditional representations of the American landscape beginning in the 1970s, as they acknowledged the country's
increasingly mobile society.
McEvoy Auditorium
Landscapes in Passing Gallery Talk
Wednesday, October 2, 6 p.m.
McEvoy Family Curator of Photography Lisa Hostetler
tours the Landscapes in Passing exhibition and discusses
how the photographs depict an ever increasing distance
between a mechanized America and the landscape that
surrounds us.
Meet in F Street Lobby
Architectural Photography Studio
Sunday, October 20, 1–3 p.m., Demonstration
Sunday, October 27, 1–3 p.m., Discussion
Bring your digital or film camera
and take pictures around the museum
with architectural photographer Libby
Cullen. In this two-part program,
participants learn about composition
and the mechanics of their cameras
by photographing the museum’s
American Renaissance and Neoclassical interiors on day
one. Day two, students have an opportunity to discuss
their work and process. Registration for both days is $25,
due at the start of the first session. Please pre-register
at [email protected].
Meet in G Street Lobby
above left: Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, Elaine Mayes
above right: Trevor Paglen, Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV), 2010, chromogenic
print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nion McEvoy, © 2010, Trevor Paglen
below left: Libby Cullen
below right: Mary Ellen Mark
Nothing’s More Interesting than Reality–
Documentary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark
Tuesday, November 5, 6:30 p.m.
Celebrate FotoWeekDC when internationally renowned photographer
Mary Ellen Mark discusses her work
and career. Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism,
portraiture, and advertising photography. Mark’s photo essays and
portraits have appeared in such
publications as LIFE, New York Times
Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling
Stone, Vanity Fair and Smithsonian
Magazine. She has published eighteen
books, received numerous awards, and exhibited her
work in solo exhibitions in galleries and museums
worldwide. The program is presented in collaboration
with the DC chapter of the American Society of Media
Photographers, FotoDC, and Washington CityPaper.
McEvoy Auditorium
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2013 Clarice Smith
Distinguished Lecture Series
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art
series highlights excellence and innovation in American art
through lectures by an outstanding artist, critic, and scholar.
Lectures begin at 7 p.m. Free tickets in the G Street Lobby,
thirty minutes prior. Reception follows each lecture.
McEvoy Auditorium
Artist Teresita Fernández,
Bamboo Cinema, Blind
Landscape, and Stacked Waters
Wednesday, September 18
A Closer Look at
American Masterpieces Lecture Series
Saturdays, September 14 and 28
and October 19, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Art historian William Kloss presents a three-part
lecture series about some of the most important
paintings in American art history, drawing on collections of the American Art Museum, Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art, and other museums.
The first lecture focuses on portraits and landscapes
from the colonial period to 1850; the second on
art during and after the Civil War, up to the 1900s;
and the third looks at art of the twentieth century
including modernism. Space is limited; register at
AmericanMasterpieces.eventbrite.com.
McEvoy Auditorium
The American Art Museum wishes to thank
Thelma and Melvin Lenkin for their generous
support of A Closer Look through the Thelma
and Melvin Lenkin Education Endowment.
above left: John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler
(Mrs. John Jay Chapman), 1893, oil, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman
above right: Teresita Fernández. Photo by Noboru Morikawa
center right: Richard Lacayo
below right: Barbara Haskell
below right: Visitors discuss Teresita Fernández’s
Nocturnal (Horizon Line), at an Is This Art? program
Critic Richard Lacayo,
of Time Magazine
Hurry Up Please, It’s Time:
Artists in Their Later Years
Wednesday, October 30
Scholar Barbara Haskell,
curator, Whitney Museum
Robert Indiana: His Art
and Its Shifting Reception
Wednesday, November 20
Is This Art?
Tuesday, September 17, 6 p.m.–Guided Looking
Saturday, September 28, noon–Open Discussion
Monday, October 7, 6 p.m.–Guided Looking
Monday, October 28, 6 p.m.–Open Discussion
Wednesday, November 6, 6 p.m.–Guided Looking
Sunday, November 17, noon–Open Discussion
Baffled by abstract expressionism? Scratching your head over
surrealism? Join us for gallery
talks focused on modern and
contemporary art. Guided
Looking sessions are led by a
museum staff member. Open Discussion sessions encourage
free-flowing conversation and debate with other visitors as
you search for your own answers.
Lincoln Gallery, Third Floor
All About Art
Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture
Thursday, September 26, 4 p.m.
Leo Mazow, associate
professor of art history at
the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, and winner
of the museum’s 2013
Charles C. Eldredge
Prize for Distinguished
Scholarship in American
Art, discusses his book Thomas Hart Benton
and the American Sound (Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2012). Reception follows.
McEvoy Auditorium
Funding for the Charles C. Eldredge Prize
is provided by the American Art Forum,
a patrons' support organization of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Capital Culture Book Talk and Signing
Tuesday, October 15, 6 p.m.
Neil Harris, the Preston
and Sterling Morton Professor
of History and Art History
Emeritus at the University of
Chicago and recipient of the
Smithsonian’s Joseph Henry
Medal, discusses his new
book, Capital Culture: J. Carter
Brown, the National Gallery
of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum
Experience. Harris provides a look at Brown’s
legacy as the National Gallery of Art’s director
and his relationship with Smithsonian Secretary
S. Dillon Ripley, as they reinvented the museum
experience. Book signing follows.
McEvoy Auditorium
above left: Thomas Hart Benton and the American
Sound book cover
above right: Ferdinand Pettrich, The Dying Tecumseh,
modeled about 1837–1846, carved 1856, marble
with painted copper alloy tomahawk, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Capitol
below left: Capital Culture: J Carter Brown, the
National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the
Museum Experience book cover
below right: Loïs Mailou Jones, Les Fétiches, 1938,
oil on linen, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Norvin H.
Green, Dr. R. Harlan, and Francis Musgrave
Carving Myths Out of History: The Dying Tecumseh
Wednesday, October 9, 6 p.m. Gallery Talk, 7 p.m. Discussion
To mark the bicentennial of Tecumseh’s death and celebrate Indigenous
Peoples Day, curator Karen Lemmey leads a gallery talk highlighting
Ferdinand Pettrich’s sculpture, The Dying Tecumseh. Following the talk,
R. David Edmunds, Watson Professor of American History at the University
of Texas at Dallas and author of Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian
Leadership, joins Lemmey to discuss the Shawnee war chief and the myth
and memory of this sculpture, once displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Presented
in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.
Gallery Talk: Meet in F street Lobby, Lecture: McEvoy Auditorium
International Symposium:
American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora
Friday, October 4, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
This two-day symposium examines the
role of Africa and its diaspora in the
development of art of the United States,
from nineteenth-century portraiture to
American modernism; from the Harlem
Renaissance to the contemporary art
world. Speakers include Chika OkekeAgulu of Princeton University, Krista
Thompson of Northwestern University,
Jeffrey Stewart of the University of
California, Santa Barbara, CelesteMarie Bernier of the University of Nottingham, James Smalls
of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and artist and
distinguished scholar David C. Driskell. The full schedule is available
at AmericanArt.si.edu/research/symposia/2013/terra. Register
at www.America-Africa.eventbrite.com.
McEvoy Auditorium
This is the fourth of five Terra Symposia on American Art in a
Global Context, which are supported by a generous grant from
the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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All programs are held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and G Streets, except where noted.
Red numbers denote pages where full program descriptions appear.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
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13
14
Luce Artist Talk
with Dana Maier
1:30 p.m. 16
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
ASL Gallery Talk
5:30 p.m. 13
Drawing at Dusk!
5:30–7:30 p.m. 16
A Closer Look
11 a.m.–1 p.m. 8
Steinway Series,
VERGE Ensemble
Concert
3 p.m. 15
Conservation
Lecture with
Susan Buck
6 p.m. 17
Conservation Clinic
by appointment 17
Landscapes in
Passing Panel
Discussion
7 p.m. 7
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19
20
21
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Conservation of Our
Collection/American
Craft Masterpieces:
Albert Paley’s
Portal Gates
noon Renwick 17
Take 5!
Jazz and the Civil
Rights Movement
5–7 p.m. 14
Lecture and Book
Signing with Damian
Skinner
noon Renwick 20
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16
Hispanic Heritage
Family Day
3–6 p.m. 13
Is This Art?—
Guided Looking
6 p.m. 8
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Clarice Smith Lecture
with Teresita Fernández
7 p.m. 8
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23
ASL Gallery Talk
1 p.m. 13
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30
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27
28
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Eldredge Prize
Lecture with
Leo Mazow
4 p.m. 9
Luce Unplugged
Community
Showcase
6–8 p.m. 16
A Closer Look
11 a.m.–1 p.m. 8
Film: Latino
Americans, PBS
Documentary
Screening
6:30 p.m. 21
Is This Art?—
Open Discussion
noon 8
above left: Steve Fitch, Gas Station, Highway
40, Jensen, Utah, 1971, gelatin silver print,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer
from the National Endowment for the Arts,
©1971, Steve Fitch
above right: Eugene Richards, Untitled
(Dorchester, Mass.), 1975, gelatin silver print,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer
from the National Endowment for the Arts,
©1974, Eugene Richards
below left: William Wegman, Untitled
(Gallop), 1988, 4 gelatin silver prints,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum
purchase, ©1988, William Wegman
All programs are held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and G Streets, except where noted.
Red numbers denote pages where full program descriptions appear.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Opening—A Measure
of the Earth: The Cole
Ware Collection of
American Basket
Symposium:
American Art in
Dialogue with Africa
10 a.m.–5 p.m. 9
Opening—Infinite
Place: The Ceramic
Art of Wayne Higby
Artist Wayne
Higby and Curator
Peter Held
2 p.m. Renwick 19
Landscapes in
Passing Gallery Talk
6 p.m. 7
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7
8
Is This Art?—
Guided Looking
6 p.m. 8
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
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Lunder Behind the
Scenes 3 p.m. 17
Handi-hour
5:30–8 p.m.
Renwick 20
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ASL Gallery Talk
5:30 p.m. 13
Sculpture Gallery
Talk with Curator
Karen Lemmey
6 p.m. 9
Sculpture Discussion
with R. David Edmunds
7 p.m. 9
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October
Symposium:
American Art in
Dialogue with Africa
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 9
Curator Talk and
Open House
noon Renwick 18
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Big Draw Family Day
11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. 13
Art à la Cart
2–5 p.m. 13
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21st Century Consort
4 p.m. Lecture
5 p.m. Concert 15
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19
Artist Lecture with
Leon Niehues
2 p.m. Renwick 20
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Basket Making
Demonstration
1–4 p.m. Renwick 18
A Closer Look
11 a.m.–1 p.m. 8
Art à la Cart
2–5 p.m. 13
Book Talk and
Signing with
Neil Harris
6 p.m. 9
Conservation Panel
Discussion:
American Baskets
1:30 p.m. Renwick 18
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Steinway Series,
Claremont Trio
3 p.m. 15
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21
Photography Studio, Day 1
1–3 p.m. 7
ASL Gallery Talk
1 p.m. 13
Gallery Talk:
Baskets
noon Renwick 18
Take 5!
Organissimo
5–7 p.m. 14
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23
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
American Craft
Masterpieces
Gallery Talk
noon Renwick 20
Opening—
Our America:
The Latino Presence
in American Art
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
What Is Latino
about American
Art?
6 p.m. 6
Luce Artist Talk with
Chandi Kelley
1:30 p.m. 16
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Learning from Higby
2 p.m. Renwick 19
Smithsonian Chamber
Music Society Renwick
6:30 p.m., Lecture
7:30 p.m., Concert 15
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Photography
Studio, Day 2
1–3 p.m. 7
Is This Art?—
Open Discussion
6 p.m. 8
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Film: The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari
7:30 p.m. 21
Luce Unplugged
with Black Hills
1:30 p.m. 16
above left: Alice Ogden, Large and Small Three Woods Twilled
Baskets, 2009, black ash, white oak, and elm bark, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
Clarice Smith
Lecture with
Richard Lacayo
7 p.m. 8
below right: Wayne Higby, Green Terrace Canyon,
1975, glazed earthenware, raku-fired, Collection of
Marlin and Regina Miller. Photo by John Carlano
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Sunday
Monday
All programs are held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and G Streets, except where noted.
Red numbers denote pages where full program descriptions appear.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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2
Day of the Dead
Family Day
11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. 13
Luce Artist Talk
with Sarah Ewing
1:30 p.m. 16
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4
5
6
Gallery Talk: Higby
noon Renwick 19
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Documentary
Photographer
Mary Ellen Mark
Lecture
6:30 p.m. 7
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11
Luce Unplugged with
Ugly Purple Sweater
1:30 p.m. 16
Art à la Cart
2–5 p.m 13
Film: Buena Vista
Social Club
6:30 p.m. 21
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Is This Art?—
Open Discussion
noon 8
Gallery Talk:
Baskets
noon Renwick 18
Art à la Cart
2–5 p.m 13
Defining and
Defying Latino Art
Panel Discussion
6 p.m. 6
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12
13
14
15
Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
ASL Gallery Talk
5:30 p.m. 13
Basket Making
Demonstration
1–4 p.m. Renwick 18
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Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
American Craft
Masterpieces
Gallery Talk
noon Renwick 20
Take 5! with Toni
Martucci Quintet
5–7 p.m. 14
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Landscapes and
Containers: A
Conversation
7 p.m. 19
Clarice Smith
Lecture with
Barbara Haskell
7 p.m. 8
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ASL Gallery Talk
1 p.m. 13
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Conservation Clinic
by appointment 17
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
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Film: Born in
East L.A.
6:30 p.m. 21
Steinway Series,
Smithsonian Chamber
Music Society Concert
3 p.m. 15
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Is This Art?—
Guided Looking
6 p.m. 8
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Sketching: Draw
and Discover!
2:30– 4:30 p.m. 16
Lunder Behind
the Scenes
3 p.m. 17
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above left: Enrique Chagoya, Illegal Alien's Guide to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value, 2009, color
lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H.
Denghausen Endowment, ©2009, Shark's Ink
below right: Scherezade García, The Dominican York, from the series Island of Many Gods, 2006, acrylic,
charcoal, ink, and sequins, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the
R. P. Whitty Company and the Cooperating Committee on Architecture, ©2006, Scherezade García
Family Programs
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Family Day—Structure of
Salsa Music
Sunday, September 15, 3–6 p.m.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
Month with an exploration and
demonstration of salsa music
and dance! Eileen Torres and
Orquesta La Leyenda demonstrate and then have you join in
the fun. The Eileen Torres Dancers
perform excerpts from their theatrical presentation, Remembering the
Palladium. A bilingual tour and craft
activity are available for the whole
family to enjoy.
Kogod Courtyard
Support for this program comes
from Booz Allen Hamilton.
Art à la Cart
Saturdays and Sundays, October 12 and 13,
and November 9 and 10, 2–5 p.m.
Learn the stories behind the artwork with interactive
carts in the galleries that engage kids, ages seven to
twelve, with brushes and palettes, bison horns and hides,
bottle caps, and quilt squares. Pick up your Art à la Cart
map and passport at information desks in F Street and G
Street Lobbies.
Art Signs: Gallery Talks for Deaf Visitors in
American Sign Language (ASL)
Sundays, September 22, October 20, and
November 24, 1 p.m.
Thursdays, September 12, October 10, and
November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Join us for conversations about artworks presented
by a volunteer ASL gallery guide. More information at
AmericanArt.si.edu/education or email [email protected].
Meet in F Street Lobby
Education programs at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum are supported by its Director’s Circle
members and contributions from museum friends.
Big Draw Family Day
Saturday, October 12, 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
The Big Draw is an international
celebration of the idea that everyone
can draw. The 2013 theme is Draw the
Future, and the American Art Museum
is offering hands-on workshops, free
drawing space, supplies, and lots of
creative ideas to get you started. All you
need to bring is your enthusiasm and courage to put
pencil to paper and see where it takes you!
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Day of the Dead Family Day
Saturday, November 2, 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Explore the museum’s new Our America: The Latino Presence
in American Art exhibition and celebrate the Day of the
Dead (Día de los Muertos). Enjoy performances throughout the day and try out craft activities, including making
paper marigolds, papel picado (a decorative paper-cutting
craft), creating memory books, and decorating skull masks.
Kogod Courtyard
Family Days at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
are supported by its Director’s Circle members.
above: Carmen Lomas Garza, Loteria-Tabla Llena, 1972, hand-colored
etching and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, ©1972, Carmen Lomas Garza
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Performances
Take 5!
Relax and Take 5!
with free, live jazz in
the Kogod Courtyard.
Stop by the Courtyard
Café for refreshments.
For added fun, borrow
a board game to play
during the concert.
Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement
Thursday, September 19, 5–7 p.m.
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of
the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom, Nasar Abadey and
SUPERNOVA® perform jazz
compositions inspired by the Civil Rights
movement, including excerpts from Max
Roach’s We Insist!—Freedom Now
Suite, as well as works by John Coltrane,
Charles Mingus, and Cal Massey.
Kogod Courtyard
Organissimo
Thursday, October 17, 5–7 p.m.
Presenting new, original music and extending the tradition
of the classic organ-based trio, Organissimo's sound is
instantly identifiable yet constantly evolving, infusing
elements of funk, gospel, blues, progressive rock, and Latin
rhythms into a solid foundation of jazz. The group features
Jim Alfredson on Hammond B3, Larry Barris on guitar,
and Randy Marsh on drums.
Kogod Courtyard
Tony Martucci Quintet
Thursday, November 21, 5–7 p.m.
From the days of ragtime when Fats Waller talked of
"the Latin tinge," to the early collaborations of Dizzy
Gillespie with Cuban masters Chano Pozo and Machito,
Afro-Latin rhythm has been an important part of the
musical lexicon of jazz. In this concert, the Tony Martucci
Quintet explores this rich tradition with original music
and jazz standards, featuring Luis Hernandez and Jeff
Antoniuk on saxophone, John Lee on guitar, Tom
Baldwin on bass, and Tony Martucci on drums.
Kogod Courtyard
above left: Robert Indiana, The Figure Five, 1963, oil, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Museum purchase. © 1963, Robert Indiana
The Smithsonian American Art
Museum thanks museum patrons
for their support of Take 5!
above right: Nasar Abadey
center left: Organissimo; Randy Marsh, Larry Barris, and Jim Alfredson
below left: Tony Martucci. Photo by Timothy Forbes
© Timothy Forbes Photography
Performances
Steinway Series
21st Century Consort
The Steinway Series showcases classical chamber
music performed by the finest musicians in the
region. Free tickets available at 2:30 p.m. in the
museum’s G Street Lobby.
McEvoy Auditorium
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Steinway
Concert Grand was refurbished through a generous
gift from Shelby and Frederick Gans.
VERGE Ensemble featuring Laurie Hudicek
Sunday, September 8, 3 p.m.
VERGE Ensemble pianist Laurie Hudicek, flutist
David Whiteside, violinist Lina Bahn, and cellist
Tobias Werner trace the lyrical and folk underpinnings of American classical music.
Claremont Trio
Sunday, October 13, 3 p.m.
Claremont Trio’s Emily Bruskin (violin), Julia Bruskin
(cello), and Andrea Lam (piano) are lauded as “one of
America’s finest young chamber groups.” They perform
works by Beethoven and Brahms, with a special piano
solo by Lam of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata,
originally attributed to her brother Felix.
Smithsonian Chamber Players
Sunday, November 10, 3 p.m.
Violinist Heather LeDoux Green,
cellist James Lee, and pianist
Kenneth Slowik will perform
Joseph Haydn’s Trio in G major,
Hob. XV/25 with the “Gypsy"
Rondo, Ludwig van Beethoven’s
Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11, and
Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, the “Ghost.”
21st Century Consort, the Smithsonian American
Art Museum’s music ensemble in residence, features
chamber musicians Elisabeth Adkins, Paul Cigan,
Lisa Emenheiser, Sara Stern, and Rachel Young,
and is led by artistic director Christopher Kendall.
Free tickets available at 3:30 p.m. in the F Street Lobby.
McEvoy Auditorium
A Democracy of Sounds
Saturday, October 12, 4 p.m. lecture,
5 p.m. concert
Exploring the museum’s exhibition A Democracy of
Images, the consort presents Eugene O'Brien's Algebra
of Night with mezzo-soprano Deanne Meek, David
Biedenbender's Awakening, John Cage’s Living Room
Music, and Alexandra Gardner's Bloom.
McEvoy Auditorium
Save the dates 2013–2014 season:
Smithsonian Chamber Music Society
Sunday, October 20, pre-concert talk
6:30 p.m., concert 7:30 p.m.
Conductor Kenneth Slowik leads the Smithsonian
Chamber Orchestra in Antonín Dvor̂ák's Serenade for
Winds, Op. 44 and Serenade for Strings, Op. 22, plus
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major.
Tickets ($22–$28) at smithsonianassociates.org.
Note Location: Renwick Gallery, Grand Salon
above right: 21st Century Consort. Photo by Aaron Clamage
below left: Kenneth Slowik
Like the Dickens
December 7, 2013
The John Deak holiday classic The
Passion of Scrooge, or a Christmas Carol
Tango Amor
February 15, 2014
A Valentine’s Day celebration
Dude
April 26, 2014
Left coast composers
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Luce Foundation Center
Luce Artist Talks
Local artists discuss a work in the Smithsonian American
Art Museum’s collection and why it resonates with them.
The series is presented with CulturalDC’s Flashpoint Gallery.
Free coffee or tea available.
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Dana Maier, artist and illustrator
Sunday, September 8, 1:30 p.m.
Sketching: Draw and Discover!
Tuesdays, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
Draw inspiration from the thousands of objects on
display in the Luce Foundation Center; then spend
time sketching in our workshop. Some materials
provided; please bring a small sketchbook and
pencils. Repeats weekly.
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Chandi Kelley, artist and founder
of Project Dispatch
Sunday, October 20, 1:30 p.m.
Sarah Ewing, choreographer
Saturday, November 2, 1:30 p.m.
Luce Unplugged Community Showcase
Friday, September 27, 6–8 p.m.
Join us for a special Luce Unplugged Community
Showcase, presented with the Washington City Paper.
Visitors can explore the center’s thousands of artworks
while listening to sets by two local bands selected with the
help of City Paper’s managing editor, Jonathan L. Fischer.
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Luce Unplugged
Talk at 1:30 p.m., Music at 2 p.m.
Luce Unplugged invites local musicians to perform after
staff-led art talks. Free coffee or tea available.
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Black Hills, electronica
Sunday, October 27
Ugly Purple Sweater,
indie rock
Sunday, November 10
Drawing at Dusk!
Friday, September 13, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Join us for a special evening session of our Draw
and Discover! program. Enjoy a mini-lesson from
guest teacher and local artist Mariah Johnson;
then spend time sketching. Basic drawing
materials are provided. Open to all ages and all
levels of artistic ability. No registration required.
Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
above left: Dana Maier. Photo by Damian Gulleminault
above right: A visitor sketches a Luce Center artwork during
Drawing at Dusk!
center left: Visitors enjoying Luce Unplugged Community Showcase
below left: Ugly Purple Sweater. Photo by Kristian Whipple
Lunder Conservation Center
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Passion for Color: Using Paint Analysis to
Discover the Colorful World of the Shakers
Tuesday, September 10, 6 p.m.
Susan Buck, conservator and paint analyst at Colonial
Williamsburg, discusses her decade-long investigation
into the original paints used by Shaker communities on
furnishings and architecture. She reveals how interiors of
nineteenth-century Shaker communities featured a rich,
intense palette.
McEvoy Auditorium
Conservation of Our Collection:
Albert Paley’s Portal Gates
Wednesday, September 18, noon
Helen Ingalls, objects conservator, and Carol Wilson, assistant chair of education, discuss the preservation of Albert Paley’s
Portal Gates and the techniques and history of treatments
employed to conserve this iconic artwork from the collection.
Note location: First-floor Lobby, Renwick Gallery
Behind the Scenes
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
Learn how museum conservators use science, art history,
and skilled hands to preserve objects from our collections
in the Lunder Conservation Center. Group size is limited.
Program repeats weekly.
Meet at the Luce Foundation Center Information Desk,
Third-floor Mezzanine
above right: L.H. (Hugh) Shockey, Jr. and Leah Bright clean two
baskets before they are put on view
center right: Jamin Uticone, Lynette Youson
center left: Albert Paley, Portal Gates (detail), 1974, forged steel,
brass, copper, and bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Commissioned for the Renwick Gallery
American Baskets: Conserving an Art Form
and Preserving a Tradition
Friday, October 18, 1:30 p.m.
Celebrating the opening of the new
exhibition, A Measure of the Earth:
The Cole-Ware Collection of
American Baskets, the museum’s
Lunder Conservation Center and
Renwick Gallery present a half-day
symposium of two panel discussions
moderated by curator Nicholas Bell.
Focusing on the practices used to
create these artworks, the techniques
used to preserve them, and research
and efforts to conserve the environment and materials that are used in
their creation, basket makers Jamin
Uticone and Lynette Youson join
objects conservator L. H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr., and scientists
Mark Whitmore and Robert Dufault for a series of
presentations and conversations.
Note location: Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
Conservation Clinics
Wednesdays, September 11 and November 6,
by appointment
Have questions about the condition of a painting, frame,
drawing, print, or object that you own? Our conservators
are available by appointment to consult with you about the
preservation of your art. To request an appointment or to
learn more, e-mail [email protected] and specify
CLINIC in the subject line.
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Renwick Gallery
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A Measure of the Earth:
The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
Baskets! Curator Talk and Open House
Friday, October 4, noon
Exhibition curator Nicholas Bell discusses
the newly opened exhibition A Measure
of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of
American Baskets and signs copies of the
catalogue. Following the lecture, join many
of the basket makers whose work is featured in the exhibition in the galleries to learn
about their work and processes.
Grand Salon and First-floor Galleries,
Renwick Gallery
American Baskets: Conserving an
Art Form and Preserving a Tradition
Friday, October 18, 1:30 p.m.
Celebrating the opening
of the new exhibition,
A Measure of the Earth:
The Cole-Ware Collection
of American Baskets,
the museum’s Lunder
Conservation Center and
Renwick Gallery present a
half-day symposium of two panel discussions
moderated by curator Nicholas Bell. Focusing
on the practices used to create these artworks,
the techniques used to preserve them, and
research and efforts to conserve the environment and materials that are used in their
creation, basket makers Jamin Uticone and
Lynette Youson, join objects conservator
L. H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr., and scientists
Mark Wittmore and Robert Dufault for
a series of presentations and conversations.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
above left: Nicholas Bell
above right: Irene Ames, Feather Basket, 2008, black
ash, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of
Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
below right: JoAnne Russo, Acorn Basket, #74,
2003, black ash, pine needles, nylon thread,
and acorns, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
A Measure of the Earth Gallery Talk
Monday, October 21, noon
Thursday, November 7, noon
A generous gift of seventy-nine baskets from noted collectors Steven
Cole and Martha Ware more than doubled the museum’s collection of
contemporary baskets. Join Cole and exhibition curator Nicholas Bell
on a tour through A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of
American Baskets and learn what it took to build this impressive collection.
First-floor Lobby, Renwick Gallery
Basket Making Demonstrations
Thursday, October 17, 1–4 p.m.
Friday, November 15, 1–4 p.m.
Saturday, December 7, 1–4 p.m.
Artists whose work is featured in A
Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware
Collection of American Baskets spend
an afternoon demonstrating their techniques. Check our online calendar at
AmericanArt.si.edu for additional
details about each demonstration.
Palm Court, Renwick Gallery
Renwick Gallery
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby
The Artist and the Curator
Saturday, October 5, 2 p.m.
The exhibition Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne
Higby explores the forms, techniques, and firing processes
Higby has used throughout his career. Peter Held, exhibition
curator and curator of ceramics at Arizona State University,
sits down with Wayne Higby for a conversation about his
work, career, and the field of ceramics.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
Learning from Higby
Sunday, October 20, 2 p.m.
Widely considered one of the most innovative secondgeneration artists to come out of the American ceramic
studio movement, Wayne Higby also played an integral role
in educating the ceramists of tomorrow. Associate professor
at the School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Ezra Shales
brings together a panel of artists who studied under Higby
to discuss their teacher’s influence, their own work, and the
direction of ceramics today. Please check AmericanArt.si.edu
for updated listing of artists on the panel.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
above left: Wayne Higby raku firing, 1998, artist studio,
Alfred Station, NY. Photo by Susan Goetschius
above right: Wayne Higby, Stone Gate, 2007, glazed earthenware,
raku-fired, collection of the artist. Photo by Brian Oglesbee
below right: Thomas Moran, The Chasm of the Colorado,
1873–1874, oil, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Lent by
the Department of the Interior Museum
Infinite Place Gallery Talk
Tuesday, November 5, noon
Chief of the Renwick Gallery Robyn Kennedy takes
visitors through Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne
Higby and shares her insights about the artist’s work.
First-floor Lobby, Renwick Gallery
Landscapes and Containers: A Conversation
Thursday, November 21, 7 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Senior Curator
Eleanor Harvey explores the western American
landscape and its relationship to Wayne Higby’s ceramic
vessels with Henry Sayre, professor of art history at
Oregon State University. Together they create a dialogue
between Higby’s twenty-first century containers and the
nineteenth-century painters of America’s frontier.
Note location: McEvoy Auditorium
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Contemporary Art Jewelry in Perspective
Friday, September 20, noon
Damian Skinner, curator
of applied art and design
at the Auckland Museum,
and editor of the new book
Contemporary Jewelry in
Perspective, discusses the
fascinating world of contemporary jewelry. Using unique
pieces, Skinner places the medium in an historical
and cultural context. Presented with Art Jewelry
Forum. Book signing follows.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
James Renwick Alliance Distinguished
Lecture with Leon Niehues
Sunday, October 13, 2 p.m.
Making baskets from
white oak saplings
harvested in the Ozarks,
Leon Niehues uses
traditional splint
techniques combined
with new construction
methods, and simple
design elements to
create contemporary
pieces. Join Niehues
to learn about his life in Arkansas, his creative
process, and his baskets.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian Chamber
Music Society
Sunday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
See program details on page 15.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
above left: Contemporary Jewelry in
Perspective book cover
above right: Handi-hour participants enjoy
craft activites and craft beers.
center left: Leon Niehues
below right: Jamin Uticone, Urban Pack
Basket, 2011, black ash, leather, and brass,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of
Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
Handi-hour
Wednesday, October 9, 5:30–8 p.m.
Handi-hour, DC's premier DIY hour, brings together the city's craftiest
folks for an evening of all-you-can craft activities, world-class art paired
with craft beer selected by Greg Engert of ChurchKey, and live music.
Find helpful videos of the featured craft at AmericanArt.si.edu/
multimedia/video/handihour. Admission, $20 at the door, includes
two drink tickets, snacks, and all you can craft. Ages 21 and older.
Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery
American Craft Masterpieces
Discover treasures in the museum’s permanent craft collection during our
gallery talk series. Individual objects are discussed in an intimate gallery setting.
First-floor Lobby, Renwick Gallery
Wednesday, September 18, noon
Assistant Chair of Education Carol
Wilson and Objects Conservator Helen
Ingalls discuss Albert Paley’s Portal Gates.
Wednesday, October 23, noon
Curatorial assistant Debrah Dunner
discusses Jamin Uticone’s Urban
Pack Basket.
Wednesday, November 20, noon
Renwick Gallery Assistant to the Chief
Rebecca Robinson discusses Wayne
Higby’s Temple's Gates Pass.
Film and Media Arts
Our America: The Latino Presence in America
Latino Americans, PBS Documentary Screening
Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.
Latino Americans, a landmark national six-hour documentary for PBS
that features interviews with nearly 100 Latinos and covers more than 500
years of history, airs on WETA TV 26 this fall. Join Ray Telles, producer of
Latino Americans, Episode 6; Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for PBS
NewsHour and author of the companion book for the Latino Americans
series; and E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Our America: The Latino Presence
in American Art, for a screening of the sixth hour of Latino Americans,
"Peril and Promise" (1980–today). The panel discusses the documentary
series, the rich and varied history and cultural experiences of Latinos, and
how they have helped shaped America. Book signing with Suarez follows.
Presented with WETA TV 26, Washington, D.C., and Latino Public
Broadcasting (LPB) (2013, 60 minutes).
McEvoy Auditorium
Buena Vista Social Club
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m.
In 1996, guitar-legend Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest living Cuban musicians to collaborate in the studio. Their album,
Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy award-winning international
phenomenon. Wim Wenders’s acclaimed documentary profiles these
legendary musicians in their native Cuba and on the road as they begin
a sold-out international tour (rated G; 105 minutes; 1999).
McEvoy Auditorium
Born in East L.A.
Tuesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m.
A Mexican-American man is mistakenly deported to Mexico and he
must find his way home to the United States. Cheech Marin wrote,
directed, and stars in the film (1987, 85 minutes).
McEvoy Auditorium
above right: Freddy
Rodríguez, Amor Africano,
1974, acrylic, Smithsonian
American Art Museum,
Museum purchase through
the Luisita L. and Franz H.
Denghausen Endowment,
©1974, Freddy Rodríguez
right: Still image from
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(1920)
Courtyard Cinema Classics:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Thursday, October 31, 7:30 p.m.
Spend a spooky Halloween at a special screening of
one of cinema’s earliest horror films, The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari. When the Dr. Caligari and his zombie-like
somnambulist are accused of murder, there may be
something more sinister and supernatural at work.
Food and beverages available for purchase in the
Courtyard Café. Jointly presented with the National
Portrait Gallery (1920, 67 minutes).
Kogod Courtyard
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Patrons
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art Donors
Our America is the achievement of a major initiative, still
underway at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, to
build a significant collection of Latino art in the nation’s
capital. We have received donations of important works
including Olga Albizu’s Radiante from JPMorgan Chase.
Thank you to our generous donors who have made this
exhibition possible:
Altria Group
Aida M. Alvarez
Judah Best
The James F. Dicke Family Endowment
Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins
Tania and Tom Evans
Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino
The Michael A. and the Honorable
Marilyn Logsdon Mennello Endowment
Additional significant support was provided by:
The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian
Latino Center
Support for Treasures to Go, the Museum’s traveling
exhibition program, comes from:
The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia
MacMillan Education Center
The MacMillan Education Center is an attractive and flexible
learning space, equipped with videoconferencing capabilities and
a whiteboard for presentations, allowing for a wide range of uses
from craft activities to formal meetings. The Center fulfills the
long-standing goal to have a space dedicated to educational
programming in the building, serving as a visible symbol of the
museum’s commitment to education.
Advancement in education is the focus of philanthropy for
American Art Museum Commission Co-Chair Elizabeth
MacMillan and her husband Whitney. The MacMillans made a
generous leadership gift to build a state-of-the-art education
center in the American Art Museum and endow museum
education programs. The 2,300-square-foot MacMillan
Education Center opened last December on the first floor of
the museum’s historic main building. The Center allows the
museum to expand its national education program and meet
the needs of its education constituencies—students, teachers
and educators, museum professionals, and families.
The American Art Museum is delighted that the MacMillans have
provided capital and endowment funds for education initiatives.
The endowment supports the museum’s goal of creating new
American history and civics resources for teachers and students
based on the best artworks in the museum’s collection.
The Education Center is bringing the newest technology
to further the purpose of the American Art Museum.
The benefits apply to the museum itself, throughout the
Smithsonian, and even across the country. —Betty MacMillan
above left: Olga Albizu, Radiante, 1967, oil, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of JPMorgan Chase
below left: left to right, Smithsonian American Art Museum Commission Chair
Dick Brodie and Smithsonian American Art Museum Commission Co-Chair Betty
MacMillan, and Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough at the ribbon-cutting ceremony
for the MacMillan Education Center, April 2013
Patrons
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Director’s Circle Members Support
Thank you to the following Director’s Circle members for their generous contributions in 2013:
Anonymous
Dr. Morris Albert and Barbara Albert
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Alward
Michele Manatt and Mr. Wolfram Anders
Mrs. Liane Atlas
Mr. and Mrs. John Babcock
Ms. Laura Baptiste and Mr. Brian H. Kildee
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baptiste
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Beers
Larry and Zaida Bergmann
Judah Best, Esq. and Ms. Emily Sopensky
Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Braesch
Fleur Bresler
Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn
Ms. Charlotte Cameron
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Carosi
Mr. and Mrs. C. Daniel Clemente
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Crocker
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Daniels
Ms. Joan Danziger
Debra J. Force
Ms. Eleanor E. Fink
Mary Anne Goley
Joyce Hamel and Bonnie Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hernandez
Dr. Sally T. Hillsman
Mr. Robert Roche and Ms. Nancy Hirshbein
Mrs. Shirley Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Joyner
Richard and Mary Kelly
Mr. Warren King and Ms. Joyce Deroy
Mr. Thomas Klarner
Ms. Mary Bridget Kluwin
Mr. Cameron Knight and Mr. Vincent Griski
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Krieg
Mrs. Amy Eisen Krupsky
and Mr. Kenneth J. Krupsky
Ms. Vivienne M. Lassman
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Levine
Ms. Caroline P. Marshall
Mr. Daniel McAndrews
Ms. Camilla McCaslin
Mrs. Oriana McKinnon
Ms. Ginni Mithoff
Katherine Neville and Dr. Karl Pribram
Nonna Noto
Mr. Paul Otellini and Ms. Sandra Price
Ms. Penelope Payne
Barry and Beverly Pierce
Ms. Lucy S. Rhame
R. Lucia Riddle
Ms. Loretta K. Rosenthal
Holly and Nick Ruffin
Mr. Steven Schmidt
Cary and Sherry Sherman
Ms. Michelle Smith
Mr. and Mrs. T. Eugene Smith
Mr. Eric Streiner
Dr. Frederick Varricchio
and Dr. Claudette Varricchio
Mr. and Mrs. Mallory Walker
Mr. John D. Weeden
Dr. Dianne Whitfield-Locke
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wulff
Dr. William J. Zeile
Margot and Paul Zimmerman
The Director’s Circle is a national
group of arts supporters who help
the Smithsonian American Art
Museum offer exciting exhibitions,
build a world-class collection of
American art, and offer innovative
education programs to students
and audiences across the nation.
The speaker at this year’s annual
Director’s Circle Dinner, exclusive
to members, is Bran Ferren,
co-founder of Applied Minds,
the winner of the Renwick Gallery
Grand Salon Design Competition.
To learn more about Director’s
Circle membership and benefits,
visit us online at AmericanArt.
si.edu/support/circle or call
(202) 633-8420. List current as
of July 1, 2013
above: Young visitors enjoy Thomas Hart Benton's
Achelous and Hercules
Presort First Class
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General Information
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The Renwick is getting a new look!
After December 8, the Renwick will be closed
for a two-year renovation. Make sure you visit
before then, check americanart.si.edu for updates,
and go to americanart.si.edu/support to help fund
the changes and preserve the historic Renwick
building for the next generation.
above: The Renwick Gallery. Photo by Ron Blunt
cover: Carlos Almaraz, Night Magic (Blue Jester), 1988, oil, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift of Gloria Werner, ©1988 Carlos Almaraz Estate
All programs and tours are free
of charge unless otherwise noted;
locations are given in the program
descriptions.
Renwick Gallery, our branch museum,
is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th
Street NW. The Renwick will close
for renovation December 8.
The Smithsonian American Art
Museum’s main building is located
at 8th and F Streets NW.
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
(Red, Yellow, and Green lines)
Hours: Daily 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Prearranged group tours: To
schedule, please call (202) 633-8550
at least two weeks in advance.
Highlights tours in are offered daily
at 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. Special
exhibition tours on Sunday at 4 p.m.,
12:30 p.m, 1:30 pm, 2 p.m. and
3 p.m. Highlights tours weekends,
12:30 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. special
exhibition tours on Sunday at 4 p.m.
All tours meet in the F Street lobby.
Art + Coffee Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays, 1:30–3:30 p.m.; tour of the
Luce Foundation Center and enjoy a
complimentary coffee or tea. Tour/talk
at 1:30 p.m.; beverages served until
3:30 p.m. Meet in the F Street lobby.
Metro: Farragut North (Red line) and
Farragut West (Blue and Orange lines)
Hours: Daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
September 9–October 15 permanent
collection; September 9 –November 30
special exhibition, Monday-Friday, walk-ins
at noon; Saturday/Sunday walk-ins at 1 p.m.
Prearranged group tours: To schedule,
please call (202) 633-8550 at least two
weeks in advance.
General Smithsonian information:
(202) 633-1000; (202) 633-5285 (TTY)
Recorded museum information:
(202) 633-7970
Program information: (202) 633-8490
or [email protected]
Support the Museum: (202) 633-8420
or [email protected]
Web site: AmericanArt.si.edu. Sign up
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