| January at SAAM is full of artful conversations and experiences. |
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Featured Program
Virtual Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo Curator Talk
Wednesday, January 15, 7 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom
Free | Registration required Learn more about three trailblazing Japanese American artists who, until now, have been excluded from the story of modernism in the United States and the exhibition that presents their artworks and life stories in dialogue. In this virtual talk, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo curator ShiPu Wang, Coats Family Chair in the Arts and professor of art history at the University of California, Merced, offers biographical sketches of the artists that contextualize their artistic development in relation to key moments in U.S. history. He shares stories from his twenty-year journey to restore the important role of Hayakawa, Hibi, and Okubo in American art. |
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| | Virtual America InSight: Verbal Description Tours
Thursday, January 16, 5:30 p.m. ET
Online
Free | Registration required
Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a docent-led virtual tour designed for participants who are blind or have low vision. Discover highlights from the collection through rich verbal descriptions that invoke a multisensory experience. |
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| | Virtual The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture Artist Conversation
Thursday, January 23, 7 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom
Free | Registration required
Artists Judy Baca, Ed Bereal, and Peter B. Jones were deeply influenced by the social and cultural shifts of the 1960s and their work channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements. Join SAAM for a lively discussion about their artistic practices and their work featured The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture. The conversation is moderated by one of the exhibition’s curators, Tobias Wofford, associate professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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| | Art Bites Gallery Talk
Friday, January 24, 12:15 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Free | Meet in G Street Lobby Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and what each one tells us about the diverse cultural landscape of the United States. Ashley E. Kim Duffey, William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellow and Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellow, discusses Martha Rosler’s, Roadside Ambush (1967–1972). |
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| | The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture Gallery Talk
Wednesday, January 29, 5:30 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in the G Street Lobby
Free | Registration required
Explore SAAM’s groundbreaking exhibition, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture with curators Karen Lemmey, Grace Yasumura, and Tobias Wofford. Learn more about the ways in which sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the United States. |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is able to create and share experiences like these thanks to funding from generous supporters like you. Thank you for ensuring that American art is available to all. Donate to support SAAM. |
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Image Credits:
Miné Okubo, Wind and Dust, 1943, opaque watercolor on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2023.46.3, © 2023, The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation
America InSight; Photo by Mary Tait
Peter B. Jones, Joy Bottle, 1968, pottery, paint, and glaze, National Museum of the American Indian
Martha Rosler, Roadside Ambush, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018, inkjet print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2021.7.8, Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
Fred Wilson, I Saw Othello’s Visage in His Mind, 2013, Murano glass and wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2019.8, © 2013, Fred Wilson |
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