Art & Design

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Detail of black and white quilt with rows of stylized human figures.
Making Quilts and Preserving Black History
Carolyn Mazloomi on the importance of art and community in her life.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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black and white photo of a woman in a dress holding flowers
Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives
Photographer Mathew Brady (c. 1823 –1896) may be best remembered today for his role in producing a remarkable visual record of the Civil War (1861–65). Yet he initially gained fame as a portrait photographer more than a decade before the war . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Portrait Gallery
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National Portrait Gallery
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Fashion illustration of a woman in a halter-neck dress with lace trim and decorative patterns. Includes two smaller sketches of the dress and handwritten notes referencing the final scene, dated 1956.
Women in Costume Design
Twirl through theater, opera, and film with costume designs from Cooper Hewitt’s collection.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Close up photo of artist Adam Pendleton.
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen is landmark exhibition of new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work. For his first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., Pendleton highlights his unique contributions to contemporary American . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Artist Ameya Okamoto posing with her nail art.
Talking With Our Hands: Nail Art Inspiration at the Smithsonian
Finding ourselves in art, objects, and stories.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Against a light orange background, a figure is drawn from illustrative black lines filled in with blues, yellows, whites, and browns. The figure consists of a brown-skinned man in a blue shirt whose body is entwined with the form of a chair, with his arms morphing into the chair arms and the two entities sharing legs.
We Are Seated: Tschabalala Self’s “Sounding Board”
“A chair always implies a figure, even if no figure is occupying it.” —Tschabalala Self
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Seven light-tower sculptures, made up of 50 boxes
Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes
Tsedaye Makonnen is a Washington, D.C.–based Ethiopian American artist. In the seven sculptures featured in this exhibition, she explores the dehumanization of Black women, femme people and their communities, finding connections in form, and . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Museum of African Art
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National Museum of African Art
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This silkscreen print depicts ranks of soldiers mounted on horseback.
Strongmen: Jacob Lawrence and Lou Stovall
Jacob Lawrence and Lou Stovall collaborated to produce some of the most moving prints of the twentieth century. This is the story of their Toussaint L’Ouverture series.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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