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Thursday, February 26
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How Old Is a Hero? ***Cancelled***
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(for ages 6-11) In this play, meet the youngest heroes of the Civil Rights Movement: Ernest Green of the Little Rock Nine, the first black student to graduate from an integrated high school; Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus before Rosa Parks did; and Ruby Bridges, who won equal rights before she could read. Share their compelling experiences and be inspired by the courage and hope of children. Features archival Civil Rights recordings. Celebrates Black History Month.
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Room 3111
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| 12 Noon-12:30 PM
Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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National Museum of American History
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center
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| 12:30-12:45 PM
The Mercury Capsule Phone Booth
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Margaret Weitekamp, Space History Division, discusses the Mercury capsule phone booth, a telephone booth shaped like the Mercury capsule.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
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| 12:30 PM
Free Within Ourselves: African American Art
Black History Month Special Tour |
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To celebrate Black History Month, a docent leads a tour to explore the personal and cultural experiences of African American artists represented in the museum's collection, including Lois Mailou Jones, Allan Rohan Crite, William H. Johnson, James Hampton, and Robert Duncanson.
Free
Repeats Feb. 28 at 2:30
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Gohlke
Gallery Talk |
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Toby Jurovics (curator of photography) leads a tour on the exhibition of Frank Gohlke's photographs that capture the forces of the natural world by exploring the tension between man and his surroundings.
Free
Related Exhibition: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet in the F St. lobby
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Winslow Homer's Use of Color Theory
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Winslow Homer called his tattered copy of The Principles of Harmony and Contrast in Colours (translation 1872) by French chemist and color theorist Michel-Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889) his "Bible." Homer referred to it for nearly 50 years as he applied the theory of the mutual effect of colors to his paintings. Judith Walsh (associate professor, Art Conservation Department, Buffalo State College) uses many of Homer's most beloved paintings and watercolors to illustrate Chevreul's color theory.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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Donald Kuspit on Louise Bourgeois
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"The Phallic Woman: Conflict and Fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois's Conception of the Female Body": Donald Kuspit (University Distinguished Professor, Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook and contributing editor at Artforum) discusses the tensions between the phallic and the womanly in Bourgeois's work and interprets the artist's understanding of the nature of the female body and the character of female selfhood.
Free; first come, first served
Related Exhibition: Louise Bourgeois
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Ring Auditorium
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ARTrageous!
Annual Benefit Event |
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Spend a fabulous evening in the new Kogod Courtyard! The evening features an opportunity to meet artists from across the country, a buffet dinner reception, live music, dancing, and mingling in the galleries. Proceeds benefit the museum's public and educational programs.
Note: For prices and tickets, call 202-633-4550 or e-mail SAAMDevelopment@si.edu.
Fee; for tickets, see Note
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Kogod Courtyard
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