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SAAM Tour: Alma Thomas Exhibit

When:

Thursday, May 16, 2024, 1:30 PM until 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

Where:

Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/alma-thomas
750 9th Street, N.W. Suite 3100

Event Contact(s):

Francine R Bennett-Beasley

(202) 436-5252 (p)

Joele Michaud

Host

2028124053 (p)

Category:

DCV Event

Registration is required before Monday, May 13, 2024 at 11:59 PM

NOTE: Barrier-free access to SAAM’s main building is available - ramps are located on both sides of the 8th and G Streets NW entrance.

If you are using MetroAccess Paratransit, please use 800 G Street NW as the address for our building. Wheelchairs are also available and subject to enhanced cleaning regulations.

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Lifelong Washingtonian, Alma Thomas is a singular figure in the story of twentieth-century American art. She developed her exuberant form of abstract painting late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Blossoming in the mid-1960s, her vibrant, rhythmic art transcended established genres, incorporating elements of gestural abstraction and color field painting. Thomas’s abiding sources of inspiration were nature, the cosmos, and music. She created a style distinctly her own, characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue.

Join DC Village member and SAAM docent, Joele Michaud, as she takes us through the exhibit of this amazing artist on Thursday May 16, at 1:30pm. 15 people maximum.

Plan to meet at 1:20 pm at the F Street entrance of SAAM for this one-hour tour. SAAM's location is directly above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stop on F Street between 7th and 9th Street, NW. If interested afterwards you can join Joele in conversation in the museum's atrium where refreshments are available for purchase.

https://americanart.si.edu/