New acquisitions and visitor favorites at SAAM examine the explosion of possibility in US art between the 1940s and today.
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Apply for a 2024–2025 Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery provide funding, collections access, and professional advancement to scholars researching US art, craft, and visual culture.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Hosts a Virtual Conversation With Carrie Mae Weems
SAAM kicks off the reopening of their new modern and contemporary galleries with a talk by the artist on September 20.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
This new exhibition at SAAM explores the powerful resonances between video art and popular music.
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Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival
This March, the fifth edition of SAAM’s annual festival features screenings and discussions with filmmakers Alison O’Daniel and Vivienne Dick.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents “John Yau: Frederic Edwin Church and Thomas Nozkowski and Their Views of the Catskills”
On October 12, the award-winning art critic, poet, and Hyperallergic editor will examine nature through the contrasting visions of a 19th-century landscape painter and a 20th-century abstractionist.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Applications for 2023–2024 Research Fellowships
Residential fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery provide funding, collections access, and professional advancement to scholars researching the art, craft, and visual culture of the US.
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Apply for Publishing Support and Research Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Opportunities for scholars include a professional development program with the peer-reviewed journal American Art as well as residential fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery.
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Telling an Inclusive Story of American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
After expanding its collection with work made by a broadly representative group of American artists, SAAM will feature more than 130 of these recently acquired pieces in a new exhibition.
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With a New Professional Development Program, American Art Journal Intends to Make Scholarly Publishing More Equitable
Scholars who are producing research on US-American art history and related visual culture topics have until September 15 to apply for Toward Equity in Publishing.
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SAAM Highlights Cecilia Vicuña, Coco Fusco, and Mariam Ghani at Third Women Filmmakers Festival
From March 1 to 21, watch online screenings hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and attend weekly conversations with the artists and museum curators.
