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Eldredge Prize: Maurie D. McInnis "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade"Join Maurie D. McInnis, professor of American art and material culture and associate dean for undergraduate academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, and winner of the museum's 2012 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, for a discussion on her book.
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Symposium: Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture. American Art MuseumThis symposium will examine craft's increasingly urgent role within contemporary American culture. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the Renwick Gallery as the Smithsonian American Art Museum's branch museum for contemporary craft and decorative arts, this program seeks to broaden the dialogue surrounding craft's recent histories, and to articulate rapid changes to the field since the beginning of the current century.
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Effects of the Civil War on American Art - Smithsonian American ArtJoin us for a Civil War Symposium, Friday, November 16 at 10 a.m. as we examine the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on American landscape, genre painting, and photography. Keynote by senior curator Eleanor Jones Harvey; presenters include Jeff Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter H. Wood, Duke University, John Davis, Smith College, Maurie McInnis, University of Virginia and Randall Griffin, Southern Methodist University.
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Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik is an American critic, essayist, commentator, and journalist. A writer for The New Yorker, he has published widely and produced several collections of essays and nonfiction books. Gopnik, the recipient of three National Magazine Awards for Essays and Criticism and a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, will reflect on the common threads that connect American Art in his lecture,What Makes American Art American?Oct 10, 2012
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Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture with Kevin Salatino - Smithsonian American Art MuseumKevin Salatino is the Director of Art Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA. He has curated exhibitions on the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, and William Wegman, among many others. Salatino, who recently curated the groundbreaking exhibition Edward Hopper's Maine at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, will share his insights on the artist and his work in his presentation Edward Hopper and the Burden of (Un)Certainty. Reception follows each lecture. This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.Sep 19, 2012
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From Botticelli's Venus to Super Mario: The Evolution of Art History and Future of Video GamesAuthor and artist/game designer Chris Solarski will demonstrate gaming's limitless potential to produce emotional experiences that rival the traditional arts and engage players in meaningful new ways. This talk is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.Sep 18, 2012
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Photography Changes Everything - Smithsonian American Art MuseumPhotography Changes Everything, a new book from the Smithsonian and the Aperture Foundation, uses the visual assets of the museum to explore how photographs impact our culture and our lives. Join Marvin Heiferman, editor, David Griffin, Visuals Editor of the Washington Post, Bruce Hoffman, director of security studies at Georgetown University; Philip Kennicott, art and architecture critic of the Washington Post; and other guests, for a discussion moderated by Merry Foresta, founding director of the SI Photography Initiative.Sep 12, 2012
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Electronic Gaming before Pong - Smithsonian American Art MuseumDon Daglow, president and creative director of Daglow Entertainment, LLC, explores how early games set the stage for the games of today and what might be coming next for electronic gaming.Sep 8, 2012
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GameFest 2.0: Level UpThe Art of Video Games curator Chris Melissinos, and Georgina Goodlander, the museum's web and social media manager, discuss the process of taking an idea and seeing it through to an installed exhibition.Sep 8, 2012
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