Art & Design

"I love art. I want to be surrounded by it. I want to be involved in the making of it. I want to be involved in the lives of the people that make it in my network."—Carolyn Mazloomi

Add a fun, personalized touch to your space with a miniature felt pennant. Learn the basic materials needed and the steps to create your own project at home. In this instructional video, Mary Lesher, Public Programs Coordinator at the Smithsonian .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Join us as we examine this four-paneled screen painting by Maruyama Ōkyo, the eighteenth-century artist who made realism a part of Japanese art. We discuss how Ōkyo used negative space to depict geese taking flight and how he evoked the feeling .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Join two museum directors as they discuss the global challenge of preserving cultural heritage. In this one-on-one interview, Omara Khan Masoudi, the former director of the National Museum of Afghanistan, talks with Chase F. Robinson, the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

In this event recording, you'll hear from people working across music, film, writing, and other creative forms to safeguard Afghan culture. Each storyteller offers unique perspectives on cultural resilience, memory, and identity.

Join two museum directors as they discuss the global challenge of preserving cultural heritage. In this one-on-one interview, Omara Khan Masoudi, the former director of the National Museum of Afghanistan, talks with Chase F. Robinson, the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist Dyani White Hawk joined Anne Reeve, Hirshhorn Assistant Curator, and Rebecca Head Trautmann, National Museum of the American Indian Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, for a discussion on White Hawk’s expansive practice, .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Experts and artists come together to explore the rise of graffiti as an art form and the ways that art in public space shapes community and culture. This conversation is the first in a series of programs that examine how graffiti imagery has .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.