Dalila Scruggs joins Smithsonian American Art Museum as the museum's first-ever Augusta Savage curator of African American art. Scruggs has a background in both educational and curatorial roles ...

Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American ... Visit Smithsonian Jazz at the National ...

(Opens summer 2025) “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art” at the National ... A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum She didn’t begin painting in earnest until ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, billed as the nation’s first ... The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Bunch in 2019 became the first museum ...

Taylor The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people alive in the world ...

Nicola Wood, Senior Editor Designed to replicate the three-tiered crowns found in Yoruban art from ... of enslaved African Americans, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History ...

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The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery, as museums try to comply with an executive order ...

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.