Art & Design

Drawing on experiences from her childhood in rural South Carolina, Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) created sculptures, paintings, and drawings depicting a common type of housing in her community—shacks. Where some may have seen only poverty in the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Chilean-born contemporary textile artist Cecilia Vicuña weaves thousands of years of history into her elegant and colorful work "Quipu Viscera".

Watch illustrator Sky Chandler create the cover for a comic book about the life of artist Miriam Schapiro. Miriam Schapiro was a groundbreaking feminist artist whose collaborative project, “Womanhouse,” critiqued the misogyny of everyday life.

Ten new stories about trailblazing women artists join SAAM’s online comic series “Drawn to Art: Ten Tales of Inspiring Women Artists.” Free to read online now. https://americanart.si.edu/art/art-comics

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/jOaU0EzMF5M Rupert García came from a family active in the creation and instruction of folk arts and traditions. After completing his service in the U.S. Air Force in Indochina, García attended the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961) was eighty years old when her art was introduced to the world. A multidimensional force in American art, her recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Multimedia artist Justin Favel discusses his creative process and the influences that shape his artwork, including the site-specific installation “Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel)” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.