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Thursday, August 14
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Anime
4-Day Young Artist Residency |
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Note: Participants must have registered for all 4 days of this residency that began August 11. (ages 8-14 with adult) Participants trace the development of manga drawing and anime films and books and work with artists to develop skills as an anime illustrator.
Free, registration required; e-mail eckerst@si.edu for info
Last day of residency
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Sackler classroom, Sublevel 2
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Native Boatbuilding Traditions: Chippewa Birch Bark Canoe
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Two canoe builders -- a master and an apprentice -- from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa demonstrate and discuss the process of birch bark canoe building while constructing a full-size birch bark canoe.
Free
Repeats daily through Aug. 21
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National Museum of the American Indian
Location: Potomac Atrium
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ArtLab for Teens
5-Day Studio Workshop |
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(for ages 13-18) In this intensive 5-day workshop, aspiring young artists have an opportunity to work with Philadelphia-based artist Jessica Hoffman and respond to objects from the related exhibition. Using cyanotypes, image transfers, and other photographic processes, students explore the real and the imagined in art and create a multi-dimensional documentary based on their own memories. Students from local schools, rising freshmen to grade 12, may apply. No previous art experience is necessary, and all materials are provided by the Hirshhorn. Note: Students must have registered for all 5 sessions beginning with the August 11 session and have met application requirement. Apply online at artlab.si.edu by August 1. For more information, call 202-633-3382 or e-mail hmsgeducation@si.edu.
Free, but limited space; must apply by August 1, see Note
Workshop continues August 15
Related Exhibition: The Cinema Effect: Part II - Realisms
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: ArtLab (enter through Sculpture Garden)
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Repetition and The Battle of Orgreave
The Cinema Effect: Part II Special Screenings |
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Note: Programs are unrated and may contain adult content.
12 Noon: Artur Zmijewski's Repetition (2005, 75 min.) re-creates the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, but achieves a different result. Rather than accepting their roles and engaging in confrontational behavior, as in the original experiment, the modern-day "guards" and "prisoners," aware of the power of the camera to survey and control, ultimately unite against the producers to end the experiment. 1:30 PM: Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001, 63 min.) is a re-enactment of the 1984 confrontation between striking miners and police near the Orgreave coking plant in England. The event provided an opportunity for several members of the parties participating in the original strike -- including miners and their families, policemen, the townspeople of Orgreave, the British media, and the viewing public -- to re-evaluate the chronology of the conflict and the way in which the televised images of the strike colored public opinion.
Free; first come, first served
Repeats Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays through Sept. 6
Related Exhibition: The Cinema Effect: Part II - Realisms
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Ring Auditorium
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The Architectural Gem of the Smithsonian
Washington D.C.'s First Art Museum Lecture Series |
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The Renwick Gallery has been a showcase for contemporary crafts and decorative arts since 1972, but the landmark building has an intriguing history of its own. Today, Robyn Kennedy (Renwick Gallery chief) leads a tour to point out some of the building's most intriguing interior features.
Free
Last in series
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Renwick Gallery
Location: Grand Salon
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Participating in the Space Age: Project Moonwatch
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David DeVorkin, Space History Division, discusses how amateur astronomers participated in the space age through Project Moonwatch, a popular satellite-tracking program managed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory during the late 1950s.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
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Portraits Alive!
Tour, with Performances |
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This theatrical tour offers an innovative journey that breathes life into the people featured in paintings, prints, and photographs in the National Portrait Gallery. Visitors stop at 11 different portraits throughout the museum and watch Teen Ambassadors perform brief biographical narratives featuring such people as Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Dandridge, Jean Grae, Coretta Scott King, and Buster Keaton. The dramatic interpretations are written and performed by teens who have participated in a 10-week youth program at the Portrait Gallery that fuses the disciplines of history and theater.
Free; first come, first served
Series continues August 16 & 19-22
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: Meet at F Street lobby
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Brakhage & Viola
Film Series |
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Note: This film is unrated. Material may not be suited for all audiences. This program features the following film by Bill Viola, a recognized master of his medium. His innovative use of material, technique, and technology to create highly personal and spiritual art has brought him international acclaim.
Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) (1981, 56 min.) This film is a poetic and painterly illustration of Viola's personal observations and experiences with Japanese culture, as well as a highly spiritual allegory in which the metaphysical properties of light and dark are used to contemplate life and death.
Free, first come, first served
Series continues Aug. 28
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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