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The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art .
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery , SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the ...
Joyce J. Scott (born 1948) is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator.Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, [1] [2] and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, [3] Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. [4]
Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. [1] Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman, boasting the largest and most productive workshop in the state during the ...
American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery Library / Renwick Gallery Library (Washington, D.C.): American art, portraiture, American history and biography, and American crafts. Anacostia Community Museum Library (Washington, D.C.): supports work on history and culture of the African diaspora in the D.C. area and more broadly in the Western ...
FILE – Artist Faith Ringgold appears during a press preview of her exhibition, “American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s” at the National Museum of Women in ...
Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) [1] is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. [2]
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum Monroe: Louisiana: 1994 [129] Northwest African American Museum: Seattle: Washington: 2008 [130] Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum: Baton Rouge: Louisiana: 2001 [131] Old Dillard Museum: Fort Lauderdale: Florida: 1995 [132] Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum ...