Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

Saisha Grayson

Saisha Grayson is Curator of Film and Time-Based Media Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Five screen video installation

A Meditation on the Legacy of Frederick Douglass by Artist and Filmmaker Isaac Julien

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.

Girl, Simone Leigh, Chitra Ganesh,

Identity and Visibility

Paul Cadmus,

Seeing the Rainbow in SAAM’s Collection

Still from Jen Liu,

Women's Films, All of Our Futures

John Baldessari,

John Baldessari: An Appreciation

From the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Funding provided by Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund; Gift of Nion T. McEvoy, Chair of SAAM Commission (2016-2018) and McEvoy’s fellow Commissioners in his honor.

How Arthur Jafa Created a Contemporary "Guernica"

Artist Brendan Fernandes On the Dance Floor as a Space for Resistance and Resilience

SAAM lit for Pride 2018. Photo by Andrew Rondinone. The museum exterior will be lit again for Pride 2019 from May 31 through June 9.

Popping (Up) With Pride at SAAM

Still from Julie Dash's

Beyond Black Boxes and Gender Barriers: A Year of Time-Based Media at SAAM

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard), 1985, 9 prints, photo-offset lithograph and screenprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, VR.1986.50A-I

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