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A pair of hands use a variety of markers to create a picture
2020

At a Seattle Gallery, Community Healing in the Time of COVID-19

When Seattle’s SEEDArts first developed the idea for two exhibits involving the healing arts and Asian-American communities, the organization had no idea that the exhibitions, which were supported by the Arts Endowment, would coincide with a pandemic. Now, with a nation sharing a collective sense...
quote by Maya Lin with photo of landwork at Storm King Art Center
2020

#WisdomWednesday: Maya Lin

"Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you." — Maya Lin Find our milestone video on visual artist/designer and National Medal of Arts honoree Maya Lin—whose work includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC— here .
a colorful drawing of a dragonfly by Dustin Twiss
2020

Indian Artists and Artisans and the Impact of COVID-19

The dramatic impact of American Indian and Alaska Native (Indian) art market postponements and cancellations, temporary closures of brick and mortar Indian art galleries and businesses, and the current halt in tourism to Indian Country resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is severely undercutting...
quote by Njideka Akunyili Crosby
2020

#TuesdayThought: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

"You don't exist if you're not represented... I felt a need to claim my own social existence by making the representation happen." — Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Large portrait of George Washington standing
2020

A Portrait of the President as a Not-So-Young Man

Break out the cherry pie: tomorrow is George Washington’s birthday! To celebrate what would have been Washington’s 288th birthday, we’re revisiting what is probably the most famous portrait of our nation’s first president—what’s known as the Lansdowne portrait by Gilbert Stuart, which he painted in...
self-portrait of photographer Gordon Parks holding a camera
2020

From the Archives: The Early Work of Photographer Gordon Parks

When 25-year-old Gordon Parks picked up his first camera around 1937, he had already survived a period of homelessness, tried his hand at composing music, and worked as a waiter on one of Northern Pacific Railway’s luxury trains. He was years away from being Life magazine’s first African-American...
A family sitting in a booth making watercolor shoeprints of their feet
2020

#FlashbackFriday: Art Talk with Public Artist Carolyn Lewenberg

In the spring of 2017, Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) hired Carolyn Lewenberg as its first artist-in-residence. For the next 18 months, Lewenberg navigated the agency’s various departments—which range from public safety to clean energy to transportation—and melded her own...
quote by Hugo Crosthwaite
2019

Notable Quotable: Hugo Crosthwaite

"We are defined by our stories. We present the story that we tell ourselves, or that we tell others, as our portrait." — Hugo Crosthwaite Read more about Hugo Crosthwaite and the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition here .
a bronze medal with a stylized figure of an eagle in the center encircled by realistic depictions of a sturgeon, a bear's head, a crane's head, an eagle's head, a wolf head, and a moose's head. On the left and right side, sheaves of grain.
2019

First Person with U.S. Mint Medallic Artist Renata Gordon

You probably know that the United States Mint is the sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage in the country. But did you know that the Mint is also responsible for designing and well, minting, commemorative coins, Congressional Gold Medals, and gold and silver bullion coins as well as everyday...
Woman in Native outfit sitting in front of a plains background with a cow skull next to her and an inflatable elk behind her.
2019

#ThrowbackThursday: Wendy Red Star: Owning Your Power

Growing up on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star was immersed in Crow culture and art. Her father was a rock musician, her uncle was a painter, and her grandmother sewed traditional Apsáalooke regalia and beadwork. When reflecting on her childhood, Red Star said that...

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