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What's a mastodon doing at SAAM? Dr. Advait Mahesh Jukar, a Deep Time Fellow and Paleontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, answers our questions.

Hips Don't Lie: The American Incognitum

Dr. Advait Mahesh Jukar, a Deep Time Fellow and Paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, talks with us about mastodons.

Chapter three begins with an image of a black walnut branch and its hanging flowers.

Designing for Humboldt: Five Questions with Karen Siatras

How a graphic designer at SAAM was inspired to incorporate Humboldt's ideas about nature into the exhibition catalogue

Jessie A. Walker,

Animals in Art and At Home

Because at SAAM everything eventually comes back to American art, some of us have been inspired to model our sweet, sassy, bored, annoyed, sleepy, amusing pets after favorite artworks in our collection. We offer them as amusement and inspiration, and as evidence of the creativity and sense of humor we appreciate in each other.

Choose your background. A little bit country...with Albert Bierstadt's

The Art of the Teleconference

Transform your Zoom virtual background or computer desktop into a work of art

Still from Jen Liu,

Women's Films, All of Our Futures

Join us at SAAM for the second Women Filmmakers Festival March 6 and 7

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Burning Man: Through the Fire

Nearly one ton of hand-written tablets collected at the Renwick Gallery were burned at Burning Man earlier in the month.

Melissa encounters a buffalo (or is it a bison?) on the Q Street Bridge in Washington, DC.

Reframing American Art

A new web series explores American art by making unexpected connections across the Smithsonian

SAAM Arcade 2018. Photo by Libby Weiler.

SAAM Arcade 2019: Representation Matters

This year's Arcade explores games that highlight voices from the LGBTQ+, mental health, and people of color communities.

Testing out Virtual Reality at SAAM Arcade 2018. Photo by Libby Weiler.

SAAM Arcade 2019: Art, Video Games, and Empathy

SAAM Arcade, "Breaking Barriers," features diverse and inclusive video games by independent video game developers.

Goeffrey Cohrs on Playa. All photos by the author.

Embrace the Dust: A Burning Man Journal

A personal journal by a museum educator and first time Burner.

Looking at works on paper by Nam June Paik at SAAM.

Museum: A Tale of Art, Life and Everything In Between

I'm throwing this one back five years to one of my favorite stories from one of my favorite poets that was originally posted in 2015. It comes with all good wishes from the blog for a wonderful, story-filled, Happy New Year.

Howard Russell Butler, Desert Landscape (#69), n.d., pastel on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Howard Russell Butler, Jr., 1978.65.4

Road Trip: Painted Deserts

August is for staff Artful Road Trips. Libby shares her journey to Arches National Park, Utah.

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