Newsletter BOX: Coming up at American Art!

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Staff Picks - Coming Up at American Art!

There's always something happening at American Art and its Renwick Gallery! Below are some of our staff members' favorite programs coming up in the next two weeks. (More info on these events - and lots of others - is available on our online calendar.) Hope to see you at the museum soon!

Artist Teresita Fernández and her work "Nocturnal (Horizon Line)"

Artist talk, part of the annual Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecure Series:Teresita Fernández: "Bamboo Cinema, Blind Landscape, and Stacked Waters"
Wednesday, September 18, 7 p.m.

*This is a ticketed event - free tickets are available in the G Street Lobby, 30 minutes prior; limit two per person

"Take 5!" Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement

Thursday, September 19, 5 - 7 p.m.

Free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard featuring Nasar Abadey and SUPERNOVA®

PBS Documentary "Latino Americans" - Screening and Panel Discussion

Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.

Join Ray Telles, producer of Latino Americans, Episode 6; Ray Suarez, chief national correspondent for PBS NewsHour; and E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, for a lively discussion following the screening of "Peril and Promise," the sixth episode of Latino Americans. Book signing with Suarez follows.

*This is a ticketed event - free tickets are available in the G Street Lobby, 30 minutes prior; limit two per person

Luce Unplugged Community Showcase

Friday, September 27, 6 - 8 p.m.

Explore artworks on display in the museum's Luce Foundation Center while listening to sets by local bands Janel and Anthony, and Teen Mom, selected with the help of Washington City Paper's managing editor, Jonathan L. Fischer. Local brewery Port City Brewing will offer free tastings from 6 to 7 p.m.

Also coming up:

Conservation of our Collection / American Craft Masterpieces Gallery Talk on Albert Paley's "Portal Gates" (Renwick Gallery)

Wednesday, September 18, noon

"Contemporary Art Jewelry in Perspective" - Lecture and Book Signing (Renwick Gallery)

Friday, September 20, noon

Lecture: "Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound"

Presented by Leo Mazow as part of the Eldredge Prize Lecture Series
Thursday, September 26, 4 p.m.

Lecture: A Closer Look at American Masterpieces
Part 2 of 3, examining art during and after the Civil War through 1900

Saturday, September 28, 11a.m. - 1p.m.

Ongoing Programs

Sketching: Draw and Discover
Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m.
American Art Museum

Behind-the-Scenes Introduction to the Lunder Conservation Center
Wednesdays at 3 p.m.
American Art Museum

Art + Coffee
Fridays through Sundays at 1:30 p.m. Check the online calendar for featured speakers.
American Art Museum

Highlights of the American Art Museum Daily at 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.
American Art Museum

Highlights of the Renwick Gallery Fridays at noon, weekends at 1 p.m.
Renwick Gallery

Now Open!

Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes

Through February 23, 2014

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Through January 5, 2014

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