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3 Questions Digital Series with Pamela Nelson

An interview from Art in Embassies 3 Questions Digital Series with Pamela Nelson, who speaks about her creative process and artwork at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan.
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3 Questions Digital Series with Eric Standley

An interview from Art in Embassies 3 Questions Digital Series with Eric Standley, who speaks about his creative process and artwork at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Tirana, Albania.
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Art in Embassies Stockholm Video Tour

A visit to the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Stockholm, Sweden, featuring a tour of the Art in Embassies exhibition and interviews with Ambassador Howery and the exhibition artists.
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American Institute Taiwan

The permanent collection of Art in Embassies for The American Institute in Taiwan featuring interviews with artists and an overview of the collection.
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Haas Brothers Hirshhorn Lecture

As part of the Art in Embassies Lecture Series, the Haas Brothers were welcomed to the Hirshhorn Museum to speak on their art and inspiration to push the boundaries of design.
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Bennington College – Art In Embassies Oslo

Art in Embassies entered a four-year partnership with Bennington College to create an outdoor commission for the new U.S Embassy in Oslo, Norway, starting in 2014. Installed and dedicated in the fall of 2018, the project highlights our ties to this changing ecosystem and seeks to encourage dialogue through our common bonds, concerns, and successes.
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Alma Allen Nuevo Laredo installation

Follow the journey of this Art in Embassies project from the artist’s studio in Mojave desert, to a foundry deep in Mexico City, to its final home at the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Portal was conceived in the United States and constructed and installed in Mexico, following the artist’s own move from Joshua […]
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Art in Embassies Registry

Ask not what your art can do for you, but what your art can do for your country –
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Sibylle Szaggars Redford in Suriname

Artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford traveled to Suriname for her commission for the new permanent collection of the U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname.
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A Whirling Porcelain Coral Reef Draws Attention to the Cost of Climate Change

The latest installation by ceramicist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison is Confluence (Our Changing Seas V), a porcelain coral arrangement produced for the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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We The People by Mark Bradford video

We the People is a site-specific painting by Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford created for the new U.S. Embassy in London.
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Mickalene Thomas Video Dakar Senegal

Mickalene Thomas was commissioned to create an exterior mural for the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, starting in 2014. This video chronicles her research in Senegal and interactions with local artists in Dakar who collaborated on the mural project.
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Artist Lecture Series with Idris Khan

Art in Embassies will partner with The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on May 31, 2018, to bring renowned contemporary artist Idris Khan to Washington DC for an artist talk.
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Stephen Wilkes’ Day to Night photograph documents historic Canada Day 2017

On Canada Day, 2017, while thousands waited in lineups in the pelting rain for a spot on Parliament Hill, someone was watching from a fourth floor window across Wellington Street.
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Stephen Wilkes has merged a Canada Day morning for a new Contemporary Conversation

“It had all the elements that I look for when I create these pictures. I love the grandeur of the architecture, I love having the sense of humanity in the foreground and that all these things would be going on during the day and into the night and then the fireworks at the end was […]
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Art in Embassies Swaziland

This video delves into the connections and inspiration for the U.S. embassy art collection in Swaziland. Focusing on interviews with local and American artists, it explores the cultural connections and research which led to the Art in Embassies permanent exhibition at the embassy.
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Photographer Stephen Wilkes – Podcast

Photographer Stephen Wilkes explains the influences and construction of his latest Day and Night photograph, taken on Canada’s 150th birthday celebration.
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Vik Muniz at the Hirshhorn

Joined in conversation by notable author and sociologist Sarah Thornton, Vik Muniz will dive into his distinguished career for this Meet the Artist program, presented in partnership between U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, best known for creating what he terms […]
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