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Archives of American Art

Treasure Trove: Archives as Inspiration

Vahagn working on a clay jug. (Photo by Narek Harutyunyan, My Armenia Program)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

The Potter's Wheel: An Inexhaustible Source of Energy

Fiber artist Barbara Lee Smith in her studio. Photo: Sam Selby

Archives of American Art

A Friendship Forged in the Archives

Portrait of Jessica Govea. Courtesy of the Govea Family. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

How One Girl Helped Build a Latinx Civil Rights Movement

Western lowland gorilla Baraka forages in the outdoor gorilla habitat at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The silverback takes mealtime seriously, say his keepers.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

How Do You Help a Gorilla With a Toothache?

Through Smithsonian programs, like ARTLAB and the National Youth Summit, museum educators demonstrate how adult mentors can elevate the voices of teens in their communities. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)

Smithsonian Education

How Educators Can Boost and Activate Teen Voices

Sophia Kianni is the founder of Climate Cardinals, a member of the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, and hosts her own podcast.

Smithsonian Science

Meet Sophia Kianni: Young Climate Change Changemaker

Portrait of Graceanna Lewis, The Underground Rail Road (1872). (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Who was Graceanna Lewis, Naturalist and Abolitionist?

All modern dogs are descended from a wolf species that when extinct around 15,000 years ago. Grey wolves, pictured here fighting for food with now extinct dire wolves (red), are dogs’ closest living relative. (Art by Mauricio Antón)

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Scientist Studying How Dogs Evolved From Predator to Pet

Anto Kilislian prepares lahmajoun at the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. (Photo by Sonya Pencheva, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Food and Longing in the Armenian Diaspora

This dress, with a matching necklace and ruby red high heels, was worn by Cornell to her prom in 2018 (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

How Isabella Aiukli Cornell Made Prom Political

Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that started their Amish quilt collection.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

The Graphic Appeal of Amish Quilts

Unidentified, Untitled (Side with the Farmworkers), front and reverse views, c. 1973, screenprint on computer tractor paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Margaret Terrazas Santos Collection, 2019.52.4

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

From Recycling to Revolution: Alternative Media in Chicanx Protest Art

Cover of the autobiography of Beba Epstein written in the 1933-34 school year, with a picture of her. (Photo credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is the custodian of Beba Epstein’s autobiography, which was digitized with their consent as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project)

Smithsonian Affiliations

How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition

Deb Haaland speaks at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the National Native American Veterans Memorial, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Paul Morigi/AP Images for Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

National Museum of the American Indian

Reactions From Indian Country to Deb Haaland's Confirmation as Secretary of the Interior

There are over eight million feet of film in the Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA), which is part of the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives. HSFA specializes in storing ethnographic footage created by anthropologists, filmmakers and travelers. (Brittany M. Hance and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

How Film Helps Preserve the World’s Diversity

A participant from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's

Smithsonian Education

Understanding the Power of Primary Sources through Home, Hand, and Heart

John Wanamaker, New York, NY. Spring & Summer Catalog (1915), front cover. (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Looking at Leisure through Early 20th Century Trade Catalogs

Dom Pedro aquamarine was cut from a 100-pound crystal that was mined in the late 1980s. It weighs around 4.6 pounds, making it one of the largest aquamarine gemstones in the world. (Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

How the World’s Largest Aquamarine Gem Came to Be

Photo courtesy of Alicia D. Williams

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

How Alicia D. Williams Is Reviving Storytelling for Black Children

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