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 While at dinner at Faro restaurant @ the Museum of Old & New Art (MONA), Tasmania I was being watched...felt like a Warhol moment. |  Make I, EYE, A.I. Contact lecture at QVMAG. Launceston, Tasmania. January 14, 2025 |
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 Invitation for the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Galery (QVMAG) Nuala O'Flaherty Memorial Lecture, 2025 |  2024 December Holiday Party Selfie! |
 Holiday Party 2024 |  Archives of American Art co-curator of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return exhibition at the Portrait Gallery watching "Untitled" (A Portrait), October 217, 2024 |
 It was so beautiful to see "America" light string by Felix Gonzalez-Torres installed outside the National Portrait Gallery Oct 18, 2024 - July 6, 2025 |  Recording the first Wink video for the Portrait Gallery Board of Commissioners |
 One the roof of the Portrait Gallery watching the solar eclipse with colleagues on April 8, 2024. |  Press Day for Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939. April 25, 2024 |
 |  Chanel sponsored the Brilliant Exiles exhibition and hosted a beautiful dinner for the Portrait Galery in the Kogod Courtyard. They made me feel special in head-to-toe Chanel! |
 2 cold colleagues walking to a meeting...me with Dr. Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History. Jan. 22, 2024 |  Celebrating one of my closets friends, Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, & the publication of her new book "The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art & History by Duke University Press. April 2, 2024 |
 We got tix to see the White House decorations! December 16, 2023. |  Friends hamming it up (double portrait) with Ava Du Vernay, Rhea Combs & Lonnie Bunch |
 Oprah and Gayle making me laugh on stage at the National Portrait Gallery. |  A morning to remember. Me with (l to r) Rhea Combs, Lonnie Bunch, Oprah Winfrey and the artists of her portrait, Shawn Michael Warren. December 13, 2023 |
 With one of my s/heroes, Oprah Winfrey at her portrait unveiling. December 13, 2023 |  With artist Shawn Michael Warren the night before we unveil his portrait of Oprah, December 12, 2023 |
 Celebrating the portrait of Octavia Butler by Bisa Butler (3rd from left) on November 17, 2023. |  Dorceta Taylor, Dolores Huerta, Julie Packard & Wawa Gatheru @ National Portrait Gallery panel about social justice in the environmental movement. Nov 14, 2023 |
 My assistant Ana María with her s/hero Dolores Huerta @ the National Portrait Gallery talk about the future of environmentalism, Nov. 2023. |  Powerful IDENTIFY performance of “Portrait of an Indigenous Womxn [Removed]” by Anna Tsouhlarakis, May 1, 2023 |
 Portrait Gallery staff getting reacquainted "speed dating" as we return to the office! |  Seated at my table @ State dept. lunch honoring the Australians! Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi & U.S. Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland stopped by. |
 You can tell girlfriend journalist Symone Sanders has done this before..selfie all askew with Ambassador to UNESCO Courtney O'Donnell |  My portrait by Devon Rodriguez! |
 My picture of Devon Rodriguez whose drawing me. September 28, 2023 |  I introduced Dana Bash and Anderson Cooper at a Smithsonian event about Anderson's new book "Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune," Sept 23, 2023. |
 At the ArtNews 100 Top Collectors event with Lisa Goodman, Josef Vascovitz & Tracey Ryans. NYC Sept. 29, 2023 |  The day Fred Ryan, publisher & CEO of The Washington Post retired, they showed the edition showing the Portrait Gallery's giant portrait on the National Mall! It was his first edition back in 2014 !! |
 Season 5 of PORTRAITS podcast is up! Banners at Smithsonian WMATA Metro Station September 2023 |  VP Kamala Harris event celebrating artists whose work is installed in the VP Residence @ the Naval Observatory Sept. 19, 2023 |
 Portrait of the former Smithsonian Secretary Dr. David Skorton by Rose Frantzen. September 18, 2023 |  Podcasting about Fakes with Dr. Colette Loll for PORTRAITS Season 5. 2023 |
 Our new sound recording studio is up!!! |  My birthday with colleagues & cake! |
 At the National Portrait Gallery Spring 2023 |  NPG Commissioner Nina Henderson & Curator Taína Caragol at the opening of "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions" exhibition April 2023 |
 April 26, 2023. Welcoming a delegation from the Royal Societies of Hawai'i |  April 2023. Visiting the Academy of Motion Picture Archives |
 Rows and rows of movies! |  April 1, 2022 ~ The National Portrait Gallery Staff threw me a 10 year anniversary breakfast! |
 February 10, 2023 ~ celebrating the loan of the WFK Travers portrait of Lincoln by the Hartley Dodge Foundation |  Jan. 19, 2023 ~ celebrating women artists at the Hirshhorn with Melissa Chiu (Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden), Stephanie Stebich (Smithsonian American Art Museum), Kaywin Feldman (National Gallery of Art) moderated by Sarah Thornton |
 December 2022 ~ Smithsonian Staff Holiday Party with my boss, Secretary Lonnie Bunch |  December 2022 Holiday Party ~ An AMAZING group of colleagues! |
 Dec. 19, 2022 ~ Dr. France Córdova & NPG Colleagues Drs. Michael Hussey and Lacey Baradel at the National Science Foundation. |  Nov. 24, 2022 ~ Swarthmore College "Big Chair" |
 Nov. 12. 2022 ~VVIP's Doug Emhoff, Alicia Keys & Hillary Rodham Clinton |  Dec. 8, 2022 ~ Reception with Dorothy Moss and Maya Lin for the Smithsonian National Women's Museum |
 Dec. 8, 2022 ~ Judith Martin came to visit. |  Nov. 16, 2022 ~ Honoring Deborah Robert's with NPG colleague Rhea Combs |
 Alicia Keys is one f the nicest people in the universe |  Nov. 12, 2022 ~ welcoming the 2022 Portrait of a Nation Honorees |
 Nov. 12, 2022 ~ Pr-Gala Face |  Nov. 12, 2022 ~ Lonnie & Me all dressed up |
 Nov. 2, 2022 ~Colleagues Kaia Black, Vanessa Jones and I at the National Portrait Gallery Day of the dead Family Day |  Selfie filter with Rebecca Kasemeyer! |
 Oct. 31, 2022 ~ Selfie with Julián Zugazagoitia, museum director buddies |  American Art Museum Directors Party! |
 Oct. 25, 2022 ~ Special Dinner Celebrating the Opening of the Rubell Museum DC hosted by Isabel de la Cruz Ernst & Ricardo Ernst |  Oct. 27, 2022 ~ NPG curator Taína Caragol, & Artists Jessica Todd Harper & Jess Dugan |
 Oct. 23, 2022 ~ Joshua Tewksbury (Tropical Research Center), Anthea Hartig (Nat. Museum of American History), Elliott Gruber (Nat. Postal Museum) |  September 21, 2022 ~ Atlantic writer & amazing journalist Anne Applebaum in front of Carl Sanburg |
 Sept 21, 2022 ~ with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic |  Sept. 20, 2022 ~ NPG colleagues surprise with cake! |
 Sept. 20, 2022 ~ Glenn Kaino selfie |  Oct 21, 2022 ~ Miss Buttercream Queen wore it better! |
 Oct. 22, 2022 ~ with former Portrait Gallery Director Marc Pachter. |  Oct. 19, 2022 ~ Get in focus people! At the opening of Maya Lin's One Life exhibition about her life. |
 Oct. 13, 2022 ~ Reception with Vice President Harris and Mr. Doug Emhoff |  Sept. 17, 2022 ~ Ellen Blacklock brought Emily Howland to life in her amazing quilt. |
 Sept 17, 2022 ~ The amazing volunteers who keep the Howland Stone Store Museum & Opendore in Sherwood NY operating. |  Sept. 15, 2022 ~ NPG field trip to Chicago to see the fantastic Nick Cave exhibition at the MCA with Rhea Combs and Rebecca Kasemeyer |
 Sept 10, 2022 selfie with Deborah Willis & Hank Willis Thomas at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences induction weekend |  Sept. 10, 2022 ~ Induction weekend for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences with Patricia Phelps de Cisneros & Annie Philbin |
 Sept. 7, 2022 ~ Celebrating the White House portraits of President Obama |  Sept. 7, 2022 Sharon Sprung did a wonderful portrait of Michelle Obama for the White House |
 Sept 7, 2022 ~ Celebrating Robert McCurdy's wonderful portrait for the White House of President Barack Obama #44 |  Sept,. 10, 2022 ~ A wonderful visit with Matthew Teitelbaum, director of MFA Boston to see the NPG Obama portraits on tour |
 Oct. 8, 2022 ~ Such a pleasure to meet photographer Iké Udé at the National Museum of African Art |  May 25, 2022 NPG supporters event at the home of John & Kristin Cecchi. |
 A Washington Women's Power Breakfast in partnership with the Washington Post with guest Sally Quinn to discuss "Watergate: Portraits of Intrigue," May 25, 2022 |  Interviewing José Andrés on April 28, 2022 about "We Feed People" the amazing documentary directed by Ron Howard for National Geographic / Disney. |
 |  Donna Castellanos sews her own business cards...that look like pumpkins! Outwin Opening 2022 |
 Celebrating The Outwin 2022 opening on April 29, 2022 with artists Joel Daniel Phillips & Quraysh Ali Lasana. |  A night to remember with The 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition winner Allison Elizabeth Taylor, Past winner Hugo Crosthwaite and NPG curators Taína Caragol & Leslie Ureña. |
 A fun moment standing in front of Lillian Vernon's portrait by Enid Cutler on April 7, 2022 with her son Fred Hochberg. |  I had the pleasure of giving Reese Witherspoon a tour of the NPG in March! |
 Congratulations to friend and colleague Kaywin Feldman at the opening of Afro-Atlantic istories at the National Gallery of Art, USA. April 7, 2022 |  |
 So grateful to have amazing women leaders as inspiration & friends! Loved this lunch ion December 11, 2022 in New York hosted by Joanna Coles & Teresa Carleson. |  Me & Tony trying to keep warm in Philadelphia. |
 Seeing Lisa Sasaki at the FUTURES opening at the Arts & Industry Building, Smithsonian, November 18, 2021 |  Celebrating the life of Hung Liu on November 12, 2021 at the National Portrait Gallery with Dorothy Moss |
 Shoe games Hung Liu celebration style |  Paying tribute to Hung Liu with Kate Capshaw and Keith Yamashita. November 13, 2021 |
 Art party in LA October 5, 2021 with Calida Rawles |  Shoe game LACMA Art + Film Gala style |
 LACMA Art + Film Gala with Devon Rodriguez |  National Portrait Gallery table at LACMA Art + Film Gala on October 6, 2021 |
 Kenturah Davis, Janine Sherman Barrois, Ava DuVernay, Lyndon Barrois & Rhea Combas at a party hosted by the National Portrait Gallery at the Academy Museum, October 4, 2021. |  Some days are simply surreal... |
 A bit of fun. At the reception for the October issue of Washingtonian Magazine's "Most Powerful Women" you can get your "cover shoot"! |  NPG'ers (r to l: R. Combs, R. Bradburn, Me, U. Subrahmanian) had the treat of a private tour of the Dior exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum with my dear friend director, Anne Pasternak. |
 An amazing gift from the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company channeling Wonder Woman's invisible plane! On my bookshelf at work. |  We laughed, we cried. Dinner in honor of Hung Liu at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC. |
 Such a thrill to see Emily Howland's album beautifully on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on display. I have spent A LOT of time with Emily! #dissertationtopic |  Fields of mourning. Each white flag on the National Mall represents someone who has died from covid-19. Installation by Suzanne Firstenberg #InAmericaFlags #heartbreaking |
 Holding faux butterflies with George Takei front of his picture by Grav Weldon at the NPG August 2021 |  A gift from Hung Liu in June 2021 showing all her friends who wrote for her catalogue. |
 New PORTRAITS podcast mug! |  |
 Four books produced during covid-19 pandemic in 2020 |  Early copy of Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian catalogue!! |
 Who else got vaccinated for covid-19 with a giant elephant in the background?! 🐘🤳🏼 |  Nominated to become a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. April '21 |
 May 2020...2 Doctors and 4 college grads. 🎓🎓🎓🎓 |  Virtual graduation #DrSajet #Lifegoal |
 "In Admiration: Emily Howland's Cartes de Visite Album" D.L.S. Dissertation finished April 11, 2021 ⏳✍🏼🌟 |  Received the ArtTable Leadership Award, Feb. 2020. Conferred by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole |
 Mailing catalogues while isolating at home during the COVID-19 pandemic |  In amazing company with Washington Life Women of 2020 feature. |
 Portrait courtesy of Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project |  Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project |
 staff holiday party with Tibor Waldner, December 2019! |  Indra Nooyi & Hillary Clinton enjoying themselves NPG gala 2019 |
 2019 National Portrait Gala honorees & Presenters |  When Michelle Obama walked into the room wearing that dress we were blown away! Wow! |
 Artist Robert McCurdy with Me; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; and his son Preston Bezos in front of Jeff's new portrait @ NPG. (Photo courtesy of Paul Morigi/AP for National Portrait Gallery) |  Indra Nooyi & Alberto Ibargüen, November 17, 2019. |
 Sharing a laugh with With Lin-Manuel Miranda |  With my husband Tony Meadows! |
 2019 Gala friends Verdine White, Randi Levine, Me & Prabal Gurung. |  Super fun Birmingham Museum of Art lecture flyer |
 On October 23 I had a preview of Hung Liu's show at Nancy Hoffman's Gallery. Hung is having an exhibition at the NPG in 2021! |  ❤️ amazing artist Hung Liu at Nancy Hoffman's Gallery |
 Anthea Hartig, Chase Robinson, Lonnie Bunch & Me! New Smithsonian colleagues. |  Taína Caragol & Dorothy Moss at the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Opening, October 25, 2019, |
 Press Preview 2019 Outwin ⭐️October 25, 2019. |  Eduardo Diaz & Kate Haw, Secretary Bunch's Installation, Nov. 1, 2019. |
 Academic walk with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw |  Interviewed Cokie Roberts for the PORTRAITS Podcast |
 Meeting Brad Pitt at the Ad Astra film launch at the Washington Post |  With Janine Sherman Barrois, TV writer & producer; Frances Arnold, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry; and Lyndon Barrois, artist, film maker and NPG board member Commissioner. Lyndon is holding a chocolate Nobel Medal that Frances gave him! |
 Meeting Betye Saar June 28, 2019 |  On July 28, 2019 the first episode of PORTRAITS went live! Here I am recording the trailer with friends. |
 Jeffrey Gibson's IDENTIFY performance "To Name Another," May 22, 2019 |  Publication of some of the set-portraits in the NPG collection, accompanying the tour of Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today (Nov. 2, 2018 - August 18, 2019) |
 The NPG Commission meeting in the home of Commissioner Eduardo Rabassa with guest artists Tico Torres and & Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte |  Sedrick Huckabee & Ruth Leona Buentello are interviewed by NPG curator Taína Caragol in Miami May 11, 2019 |
 Michael Vasquez in his studio on 11, 2019 |  Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company performs "Tracings" May 4, 2019 in the National Portrait Galery Kogod Courtyard |
 Press preview of the unveiling of Julie Packard's portrait by Hope Gangloff, April 23, 2019. |  April 1, 2019 the NPG staff threw me a 6 year anniversary party! |
 Portrait Circle evening with Left to right: Joe Ujobai, Bobbie Smith, Christy Turlington, Randi Charno Levine, Dana Bash, & Kristin Rae Cecchi on April 8, 2019. (Picture by Tony Powell) |  Jane Abraham, David Skorton, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Doris Matsui, Kim Sajet. March 28, 2019Votes for Women! Opening night. |
 Tour of Frieze LA with NPG friends Feb 14, 2019 |  Votes for Women! catalogue early copies! Feb 12. 2019 |
 Published article in The Atlantic |  Titus Kaphar @ NXTHVN Haven, CT 2.6.2019 |
 Partying with Ken Gonzales-Day, NPG Nov. 10. 2018 |  Reached 2 million visitors in 11 months (1. Oct, 2017 to 1. Sept. 2018). Almost a 100% increase since 2013. |
 Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture, edited by Wendy Wick Reaves on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery's 50th anniversary presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore the subtle means by which artists―& subjects―convey a sense of identity & reveal historical context. |  Black Out: Silhouettes from Then to Now exhibition opening with Kumi Yamashita in front of her work. May 11, 2018. |
 The Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup (NHL)!! April 11, 2018 -- fans gathered on the Portrait Gallery's steps. |  Opening night March 22, 2018 of "Unseen: Our Past in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar." l to r: Asma Naeem, me, Titus, Ken, and Taina Caragol. |
 Unveiling the portraits of President Barak Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Michele Obama by Amy Sherald on February 14, 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery was an amazing day from start to finish! |  "The Portrait Gallery is a constant paradox: Its focus on America and portraiture makes its mission inherently conservative, yet for years now it has been one of the Smithsonian’s most consistently provocative museums, with exhibitions that explore gender, sexuality, race and difference." --- Philip Kennicott (9/21/2017) |
 America’s Presidents reopened at the National Portrait Gallery to the public on September 22, 2017, with new works and signage, an entirely new LED lighting system, and the reintroduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington, which went through 18 months of conservation and analysis, visitors can once again explore and reflect on this unique and powerful collection. A special feature is three interactive touch tables that allows visitors to explore portraits of each pres |  Created in 2016 - a new studio to store and instal TBMA. |
 A NPG Teen re-interprets part of Malcolm X's biography in the galleries. Part of the 20216 Portraits Alive! summer program. |  American Sign Language tours |
 Dolores speaking 2015 |  The Outwin 2016: Contemporary Portraiture Today national portrait competition exhibition toured to four venues around the US for the first time between 2016-2018. |
 The symposium “Racial Masquerade in American Art and Culture,” Nov. 4 and 5, – organized by Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor of the history of art at University of Pennsylvania and senior fellow at the National Portrait Gallery was amazing. The event brought together scholars and artists to examine instances of people performing as a race other than their own—known as racial masquerade—and how this continues to shape the way people are viewed in American society. |  The IDENTIFY program at the National Portrait Gallery commissions new work by performance artists around issues of American race and gender, and asks the question "How do we show the presence of absence?" |
 Maria Magdalena Campos Pons performs an IDENTIFY program May 4, 2016 |  James Luna performs an IDENTIFY program January 11, 2016 |
 Aretha Franklin looks at her portrait, November 15, 2015. |  The first America Now! performance May 22, 2015. |
 In collaboration with Explore! Children's Museum of Washington, D.C. the National Portrait Gallery opened its first-ever space dedicated to children ages 18 months to 8 years old accompanied by an adult. The exhibition is located on the first floor of the museum and all texts are presented in English and Spanish. |  From September 5 - September 12, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery piloted new exterior lighting & projections on the museum's F-Street entrance in conjunction with an exhibitions of 6 contemporary U.S. Latino artists—David Antonio Cruz, Carlee Fernandez, María Martínez-Cañas, Rachelle Mozman, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, and Michael Vasquez. |
 A grand landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada was placed temporarily on the National Mall from October 4 - 31, 2014. “Out of Many, One,” the English translation of E pluribus unum, stretched across 6 acres of land midway between the World War II & Lincoln memorials along the south side of the Reflecting Pool. The work was a composite portrait of young men & made of 8,000 tons of sand, 2,000 tons of topsoil and white chalk via satellite location. |  In 2014 began a partnership with DTSBDC that in 2016 evolved to become the first time a Smithsonian museum has developed a formal Dance Company in Residence program. The DTSBDC develop new performances based on the National Portrait Gallery's exhibitions. |
 Many, many, museum mugs #museummemories #nocoffee ☕️#caffineofideas 💬 |  My essay is all about the romanticism of Dutch culture in the middle of the Industrial Revolution. |
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