| Beat the heat at SAAM with upcoming programs featuring music, conservation, and more. |
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Featured Program
In-Person Take 5: Jazz at SAAM with Ebban and Ephraim Dorsey
Thursday, August 17, 5 – 7 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Kogod Courtyard
Free | Registration Encouraged Celebrate a uniquely American art form with Take 5: Jazz at SAAM, a series of free, live performances in SAAM’s airy Kogod Courtyard. This month features siblings Ebban and Ephraim Dorsey from Baltimore. Both Ebban and Ephraim are composers and bandleaders; Ebban is an alto saxophonist while Ephraim is a tenor saxophonist.
The pair have performed at Bohemian Caverns, Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club, Caton Castle, Keystone Korner, and the Montclair Jazz Festival. While members of NYO Jazz 2021, Ebban and Ephraim recorded an album.
Take your experience up a notch! Grab a board game to play and purchase refreshments from the Courtyard Café to enjoy with the smooth sounds. Come early and explore SAAM's exhibition Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies and discover the new and often unexpected ways art and sound go hand in hand. |
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| | In-Person Converse with a Conservator: James Hampton’s Throne
Friday, August 11, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in the G Street Lobby
Free | Registration Required Explore the ongoing conservation efforts surrounding one of SAAM's most iconic artworks: James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly with SAAM's Lunder Conservation Fellow Katya Zinsli.
Discover the meticulous processes involved in caring for such a large and complex artwork, as well as the challenges of preserving its intricate details and documenting these efforts. Be among the first to learn about a portion of the artwork that has never before been on display and learn about SAAM’s exciting plans for its public conservation this fall. |
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| | Art Bites Gallery Talk
Friday, August 25, 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Free | Meet in the G Street LobbyJoin SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one tells us about America’s ever-changing culture.
In this talk, Claire Ittner, the Will Barnet Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, provides new insights into William E. Artis’s Untitled (Idealized Head of a Woman).
To view other Art Bites talks, visit SAAM’s full calendar of events. |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is able to create and share experiences like these thanks to funding from generous supporters like you.
Thank you for ensuring that American art is available to all. |
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Image Credits:
Ebban and Ephraim Dorsey; Photo by Efrain Ribeiro
Conservation photo by Jenna Gustafson
William E. Artis, Untitled (Idealized Head of a Woman), ca. 1946, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
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