DC’s Best Virtual Museum and Gallery Tours
“gods’ man,” acrylic on canvas
Joseph Cortina
The McLean Project for the Arts has two new virtual (and in gallery) exhibition that recently opened.
Running through February 20, 2021
Emerson Gallery
Vertical Interval: New Works by Joseph Cortina
McLean-based artist Joseph Cortina is exhibiting paintings and digital works that explore the intersection and tension between physical and digital landscapes.
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The Renwick Gallery
Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
December 2020
Virtual American Art Programs
We have moved our public programming online! Enjoy American Art programs from the safety of home. Please note all programs are offered exclusively online with no in-person option. Registration is required via Eventbrite.
Programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Public inquiries should be directed to (202) 633-8490 or AmericanArtPrograms@si.edu
Website for all programs: https://americanart.si.edu/events
!Printing the Revolution! &
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Virtual American Art Programs
January 2021
We have moved our public programming online! Enjoy American Art programs from the safety of home. Please note all programs are offered exclusively online with no in-person option. Registration is required via Eventbrite.
Programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Website for all programs: https://americanart.si.edu/events
January 2021 Programs
6
Converse with a Conservator: Paintings Care
14
Art Signs Online: An Artful Conversation in ASL
21
Printing the Revolution! Virtual Conversation Series: Cross-Generational Mentorship and Influence
23
Art & Me Preservation Family Workshop: Put in Print
28
Renwick Invitational 2020 Virtual Artist Conversation with Debora Moore
29
Podcast Release: Luce Listening Party with Domingues and Kane
Converse with a Conservator: Paintings Care
Wednesday, January 6, 5:30 p.m. ET
Do you have questions about how to care for paintings in your home? This year, many of us have started making artwork at home and have looked to creativity for solace during these challenging times. Join Paintings Conservator Gwen Manthey for an engaging virtual question and answer session about the best way to take care of and safely store paintings you have at home. We’ll compare how the museum cares for the nation’s collection and what is readily accessible for the everyday maker and collector.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; Registration required via Eventbrite
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/converse-with-a-conservator-paintings-care-registration-131361715427
Art Signs Online: An Artful Conversation in ASL
Thursday, January 14, 5:30 p.m. ET
Curious about American art? Join us for a 30-minute virtual conversation about selected works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection, presented in American Sign Language (ASL) with voice interpretation for participants who are deaf or partially deaf.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; Registration required via Eventbrite
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-signs-online-an-artful-conversation-in-asl-tickets-131351908093
¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual Conversation Series: Cross-Generational Mentorship and Influence
Thursday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. ET
Chicanx artistic exchanges and mentorships across generations grow out of an ongoing and mutual commitment to empower marginalized communities and support global liberation struggles. This cross-generational panel features artists included in ¡Printing the Revolution! who have worked in the Bay Area together using their artwork as a vehicle for international solidarity and social change.
Participants include Juan Fuentes, a renowned printmaker, and activist, who was the former executive director of Mission Gráfica at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (SF), one of the major print centers dedicated to transnational artistic exchange; and Dignidad Rebelde (Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes), an artistic collective based in Oakland, California. Their artwork highlights support for Indigenous rights, Palestinian solidarity, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The panel will be moderated by Terezita Romo, an art historian, curator, and writer who contributed to the ¡Printing the Revolution! catalogue.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; Registration required via Eventbrite
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/printing-the-revolution-virtual-conversation-series-tickets-131957296827
Art & Me Preservation Family Workshop: Put in Print
Saturday, January 23, 2021, 10–10:45 a.m. ET
The art doctor is in! From Chicanx graphics to Japanese prints, explore how Smithsonian conservators preserve colorful artworks on paper in this engaging online workshop. Then create your own colorful print and a protective folder, so your artwork stays safe. This hands-on artmaking preservation workshop is designed for children ages three to eight and their caretakers. This program is part of a yearlong series cohosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
A Zoom link and suggested material list will be sent to registered participants 24–48 hours in advance of the workshop.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; Registration required via Eventbrite; One registration per family.
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-me-preservation-family-workshop-put-in-print-registration-132323764943
Renwick Invitational 2020 Virtual Artist Conversation with Debora Moore
Thursday, January 28, 7 p.m. ET
Discover the beauty and wonder of the natural world through the spectacular glass sculptures by artist Debora Moore featured in the exhibition Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020. Join Moore and Stefano Catalani, exhibition juror and executive director of the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, for an engaging online conversation about Moore’s creative process and work featured in Forces of Nature. Learn more about Moore’s history as a trailblazer in the glass field, and why experiencing nature is key to her development as an artist.
The Smithsonian Women’s Committee Endowment provided generous funding for Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 public programs.
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; Registration required via Eventbrite
Podcast Release: Luce Listening Party with Domingues and Kane
Friday, January 29
Luce Unplugged has gone digital! Tune in for a podcast episode featuring classically trained cellist and viola da gamba player Amy Domingues and multi-instrumentalist and composer Dennis Kane in conversation with Paul Vodra of Hometown Sounds. As a musical duo, Domingues and Kane blend string instrumental traditions with an indie aesthetic to create a sound all their own.
Listen to this series on Hometown Sounds now!
Location: Online
Tickets: Free; No registration required
Event Link: https://hometownsoundsdc.com
About the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the most significant and inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. The museum’s main building is located at Eighth and F streets N.W., above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station. Its Renwick Gallery, a branch museum dedicated to contemporary craft and decorative arts, is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W. Admission is free. Follow the museum on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Museum information (recorded): (202) 633-7970. Smithsonian information: (202) 633-1000. Website: americanart.si.edu.
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Note to editors: Selected high-resolution images for publicity only are available through the museum's Dropbox account. Email AmericanArtPressOffice@si.edu
to request the link.
Image credits:
Conservation team cleaning Luis Jiménez’s Vaquero. Photo by Laura Hoffman
Christi Belcourt (Michif), The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Purchased with funds donated by Greg Latremoille, 2014, 2014/6. © Christi Belcourt
Skeleton of the Mastodon, excavated 1801–2 by Charles Willson Peale, bone, wood, and papier mâché, approx. 118 × 177 × 65 in., Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, Photo: Ariel O'Connor