Take a summer lunch break with Art Bites at SAAM.

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Discover New Stories from SAAM’s Collection

Art Bites Gallery Talks
Fourth Friday of each month, 12:15–12:45 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Free

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 an ever-changing culture in the United States.

Carved and painted relief of an oak tree with a link to register.

July 25
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in G Street Lobby
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Brandon O. Scott, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, discusses Minnie Evans’s Airlie Oak (1954).

August 22
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan, Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, discusses Edmonia Lewis's Old Arrow Maker (modeled 1866).

Painting of an Indigenous man fishing in a stream.

September 19
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in G Street Lobby

Matthew Bowman, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow,
discusses Walter Ufer’s After Them (1928).

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Image Credits: Art Bites; Photo by Amelia Goerlitz

Minnie Evans, Airlie Oak, 1954, oil paint on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Josh Feldstein, 2017.35.2

Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved 1872, carved marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Joseph S. Sinclair, 1983.95.182

Walter Ufer, After Them, 1928, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb, 1993.48.8