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Inauguration
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To celebrate the 2009 presidential inauguration, a docent leads a tour highlighting works with an inaugural theme.
Free
Repeats Jan. 16, 17, 18, & 21; times vary
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Ryan McGinley
Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, assistant curator of photographs Frank Goodyear talks about Ryan McGinley's self-portrait in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby
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Friday, January 16
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
D.C.-area art collector Robert Lehrman talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Renewing America's Promise: Special Inauguration Tour
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, a docent leads a tour highlighting works with an inaugural theme.
Free
Repeats Jan. 17, 18, & 21; times vary
Related Exhibition: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Saturday, January 17
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Renewing America's Promise
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, roving actors portray American presidents from throughout the nation's history. Other activities include musical performances and gallery interpreters to explain the exhibitions.
• 11:30 AM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 12:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
• 1-3 PM: Elizabeth Brownstein signs copies of her book Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency (2nd floor, outside Mall Museum Store).
• 2:00 PM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 3:00 PM: Spark!Lab: Benjamin Franklin's electrical experiments (1st floor)
• 3:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
Free
Repeats Jan. 18 & 19
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum Throughout the museum
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Facing History: Be the Artist
Youth Arts Program |
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(for ages 5-10 or ages 10-14, accompanied by an adult; see above for times) This series of two-hour art classes are designed for youth to better understand the work of women artists whose portraits are featured in the exhibition Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Portraits. Registered participants take a guided tour of the exhibition and then create their own pieces based on ideas from sculptor Marisol, known for her unique style in the 1960s.
Free, but space limited; to register, call 202-633-8501
Last program
Related Exhibition: Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Portraits
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Education Center, 1st Floor, Room E151
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Renewing America's Promise: Special Inauguration Tours
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, a docent leads a tour highlighting works with an inaugural theme.
Free
Repeats Jan. 18 & 21; times vary
Related Exhibition: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Down by the Sea Shore
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) More than a hundred years ago American artist Dwight William Tryon used pastels to capture the many moods of the sea. Today, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto takes black-and-white photographs that meld sea and sky. Discover their works in the Sackler Gallery, and then draw with pastels and charcoal in the classroom to create your own seascape to take home.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats January 18, 24, & 25
Related Exhibition: Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Sunday, January 18
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Renewing America's Promise
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, roving actors portray American presidents from throughout the nation's history. Other activities include musical performances and gallery interpreters to explain the exhibitions.
• 11:30 AM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 12:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
• 1-3 PM: Jim Bendat signs copies of his book Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of our President, 1789-2009 (2nd floor, outside Mall museum store).
• 2:00 PM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 3:00 PM: Spark!Lab: Benjamin Franklin's electrical experiments (1st floor)
• 3:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
Free
Repeats Jan. 19
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum Throughout the museum
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Renewing America's Promise: Special Inauguration Tours
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, a docent leads a tour highlighting works with an inaugural theme.
Free
Repeats Jan. 21 at 6 PM
Related Exhibition: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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| 2 PM
Down by the Sea Shore
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) More than a hundred years ago American artist Dwight William Tryon used pastels to capture the many moods of the sea. Today, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto takes black-and-white photographs that meld sea and sky. Discover their works in the Sackler Gallery, and then draw with pastels and charcoal in the classroom to create your own seascape to take home.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats January 24 & 25
Related Exhibition: Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Monday, January 19
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Renewing America's Promise
Inaugural Activities and Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, roving actors portray American presidents from throughout the nation's history. Other activities include gallery interpreters to explain the exhibitions and performances that highlight music and speeches of the Civil Rights movement to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
• 11:30 AM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 12:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
• 1-3 PM: Deborah Willis sign copies of her book Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs (2nd floor, outside Mall museum store).
• 2:00 PM: In Process... songs of the Civil Rights movement (1st floor, center)
• 3:00 PM: Spark!Lab: Benjamin Franklin's electrical experiments (1st floor)
• 3:30 PM: Federal City Brass Band, Civil War-era band music (1st floor, center)
Free
Continues Jan. 20
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum Throughout the museum
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Renewing America's Promise: Open House & Exhibition Tours
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the National Museum of African American History and Culture features the following:
• 11 AM-3 PM: Open House
• 1 PM-2 PM: Guided Tours of Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 and After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
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Ripley Center
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor)
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Wednesday, January 21
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Renewing America's Promise: Special Inauguration Tour
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, a docent leads a tour highlighting works with an inaugural theme.
Free
Last day
Related Exhibition: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Thursday, January 22
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Botany Prints Over Time
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The Cullman Library in the National Museum of Natural History holds the Smithsonian's collection of rare books in anthropology and the natural sciences, including several hundred rare volumes about early botany, which is a field renowned for the beauty of its illustrations. With a special focus on orchids, curator Leslie Overstreet talks about the technologies of making and publishing botanical prints, while highlighting extraordinary woodcuts of 16th-century herbals, magnificent hand-colored botanical engravings from the 1700s and 1800s, and colorful 21st-century digital photography in the large-format "Botanica magnifica."
Free, but tickets required; call 202-633-3030
Repeats Feb. 11
Related Exhibition: Orchids through Darwin's Eyes: 15th Annual Orchid Show
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Natural History Museum See ticket for location
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What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Adelyn, Ash Wednesday,
New Orleans, Louisiana: Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, curator of painting and sculpture Brandon Fortune talks about the portrait Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana by Alec Soth in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby
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Friday, January 23
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Associate curator Kristen Hileman talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Saturday, January 24
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Down by the Sea Shore
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) More than a hundred years ago American artist Dwight William Tryon used pastels to capture the many moods of the sea. Today, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto takes black-and-white photographs that meld sea and sky. Discover their works in the Sackler Gallery, and then draw with pastels and charcoal in the classroom to create your own seascape to take home.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats January 25
Related Exhibition: Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Sunday, January 25
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Down by the Sea Shore
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) More than a hundred years ago American artist Dwight William Tryon used pastels to capture the many moods of the sea. Today, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto takes black-and-white photographs that meld sea and sky. Discover their works in the Sackler Gallery, and then draw with pastels and charcoal in the classroom to create your own seascape to take home.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Last program. Continues with new theme next month
Related Exhibition: Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Michael J. Fox
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, curator of photographs Ann Shumard talks about the portrait of Michael J. Fox by Steve Pyke in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby
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Friday, January 30
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Ori Gersht
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Curatorial research associate Ryan Hill talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Black Box: Ori Gersht
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Friday, February 6
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Hirshhorn Collections
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Grey Gundaker (professor, American Studies and Anthropology, College of William and Mary) talks about the collections at the Hirshhorn.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Meet the Artists: Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole
Gallery Tour and Talk |
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Visiting artists Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole discuss their work and site-specific installations in the related exhibition.
Free
Related Exhibition: Artists in Dialogue
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African Art Museum
Location: African Art Museum Sublevel 1
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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. 12 & 26 at 12:30 PM and Feb. 21 & 28 at 2 PM
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats February 8, 21, 22, & 28, March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Iraqi Jazz Fusions: Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers
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Iraqi American jazz artist Amir ElSaffar leads this cross-cultural quintet in a performance of Two Rivers, an original work inspired by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the composer's Iraqi and American heritage, and the common ground between American jazz and Iraqi classical music. He performs on trumpet and santur with Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophone; Nasheet Waits, drums; Carlo DeRosa, bass; and Zaafir Tawil, oud, violin, and dumbek.
Note: Free tickets (up to 4 per person) can be reserved in advance through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 202-397-7328 or 800-551-7328 beginning at 10 AM two Mondays before the event. A handling fee is applied. Tickets (up to 2 per person) will also be available at the auditorium door 1 hour before the event begins on a first-come, first-served basis.
Free, but tickets required; see Note
Related Exhibition: Arts of the Islamic World
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Freer Gallery Meyer Auditorium
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats February 21, 22, & 28, March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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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. 26 at 12:30 and Feb. 21 & 28 at 2:30
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Friday, February 13
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Directions: Terence Gower
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Curator Anne Ellegood talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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African American Pioneers in Aviation
Family Day |
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Discover the many great achievements made by African American men and women who pioneered the skies and strove to overcome the challenges of segregation in the mid-1900s. Talk with local Tuskegee Airmen, the famous African American pioneers in the skies, and learn how they achieved great success through determination and perseverance. Through storytelling, tours, and hands-on activities, learn about Bessie Coleman, the first African American to receive a pilot's license. Celebrates Black History Month.
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Air and Space Museum
Location: Air and Space Museum Throughout the museum
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Presidential Family Fun
Family Day |
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Learn how American presidents through history had fun. Fife-and-drum music, period dance, dramatic storytelling, Victorian valentines, an interactive self-guide, and several special guests are just some of the special activities scheduled for this Presidents' Day holiday weekend. In the Luce Foundation Center from 12 Noon to 5 PM, watch Zilly Rosen create a portrait A New Birth of Freedom out of cupcakes; when she is done, help de-install the piece by sampling a cupcake! Co-sponsored with the National Portrait Gallery.
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Kogod Courtyard and Luce Foundation Center
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In Any Language Love
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(for all ages) Enjoy a slide show of images of love in Asian art. Learn how to create a Valentine using the collagraphic printing technique for the cover and print "love" in different Asian languages inside.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Glenn Harper (editor, Sculpture magazine, publication of the International Sculpture Center) talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Saturday, February 21
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African American Pioneers in Aviation
Family Day |
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Discover the many great achievements made by African American men and women who pioneered the skies and strove to overcome the challenges of segregation in the mid-1900s. Talk with local Tuskegee Airmen, the famous African American pioneers in the skies, and learn how they achieved great success through determination and perseverance. Meet U.S. Air Force Academy alumni pilots. Enjoy music, book signings, hands-on activities, and story time for young children. Celebrates Black History Month.
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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Throughout the museum
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Mardi Gras Carnival--Art and Music Festival
Family Program |
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Come celebrate Mardi Gras and Carnival with a guided tour of the Jubilee exhibition, musical selections from carnival, costuming, mask making, storytelling, and a variety of art activities. Be sure to come early and get your face painted.
Free; for information, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE
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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. 26 at 12:30 PM and Feb. 28 at 2 PM
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats February 22 & 28, March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Sunday, February 22
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats February 28 & March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Thursday, February 26
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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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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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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet in the F St. lobby
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Friday, February 27
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Louise Bourgeois
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
D.C.-area artist Cara Ober talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Louise Bourgeois
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Saturday, February 28
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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.
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Sunday, March 1
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Last program. Continues with new theme next month.
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Freer and Sackler Galleries
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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Friday, March 6
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Directions: Terence Gower
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Architect Diane Cho talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Sunday, March 8
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Mr. Lincoln at Harpers Ferry and Antietam
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During one of his most important trips out of Washington during the war, President Lincoln traveled to Harpers Ferry and Antietam to visit the Army of the Potomac during the first week of October 1862. Many of the sights of Lincoln's time remain at both Antietam and Harpers Ferry. You can see them and learn about them on this full-day study tour with historian Ed Bearss. Visit sites where Lincoln viewed the troops, assessed the political and military situation, and reflected on what his preliminary emancipation proclamation portended. Lunch is included.
$163, general; $117, members: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: See ticket
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Friday, March 20
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Directions: Terence Gower
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Curatorial assistant Al Miner talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk
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Sunday, March 29
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Mr. Lincoln's November 1863 Trip to Gettysburg
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Invited to make a few remarks at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg on Nov. 18, 1863. Although he spent less than 24 hours in Gettysburg, this turned out to be one of the most important trips he would make. In that short time he gave his historic speech, the Gettysburg Address, consisting of fewer than 280 words and delivered in a little over 2 minutes. This full-day program with Civil War historian Ed Bearss during the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth lets you walk in the footsteps of the Great Emancipator during his hours in Gettysburg. Lunch is included.
$171, general; $125, members: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: See ticket
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Saturday, April 11
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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One hundred forty-three years after President Lincoln was assassinated, take a walk that commemorates one of the saddest moments in American history. From the White House, where Lincoln gave his last speech, to the posh Lafayette Square homes of the army major who struggled with the assassin and the secretary of state who was stabbed by a co-conspirator, the walk continues to the replica of the church where Lincoln worshipped. Author Anthony S. Pitch leads this two-hour anecdotal history walk based on his new book, They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
$31, general; $23, members: call 202-633-3030
Repeats April 26
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Resident Associate Program
Location: See ticket
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Sunday, April 19
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Mr. Lincoln's Civil and Political Washington
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For some fifty months, Washington, D.C., was Mr. Lincoln's home. Sites in the city intimately associated with the President and his family abound, and seeing them adds to our appreciation for the man. Join historian Ed Bearss on a closer look at Lincoln through a full-day exploration of the city and its environs. Highlights include Lafayette Square and the White House area, Navy Yard, Lincoln Cottage, Fort Stevens, New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Ford's Theatre. Lunch is included.
$174, general; $128, members: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
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Sunday, April 26
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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One hundred forty-three years after President Lincoln was assassinated, take a walk that commemorates one of the saddest moments in American history. From the White House, where Lincoln gave his last speech, to the posh Lafayette Square homes of the army major who struggled with the assassin and the secretary of state who was stabbed by a co-conspirator, the walk continues to the replica of the church where Lincoln worshipped. Author Anthony S. Pitch leads this two-hour anecdotal history walk based on his new book, They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
$31, general; $23, members: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: See ticket
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Friday, May 15
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Booth's Escape Route
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Fleeing Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth traveled through Maryland into Virginia, where, a few days later, he was found, shot, and died of his wounds. Civil War authority Ed Bearss retraces Booth's escape route and reveals the personalities and intrigues surrounding the assassination. A late lunch is included.
$169, general; $123, members: call 202-633-3030
Repeats June 7
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Resident Associate Program
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Sunday, June 7
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Booth's Escape Route
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Fleeing Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth traveled through Maryland into Virginia, where, a few days later, he was found, shot, and died of his wounds. Civil War authority Ed Bearss retraces Booth's escape route and reveals the personalities and intrigues surrounding the assassination. A late lunch is included.
$169, general; $123, members: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
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