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National Gallery of Canada Magazine – Art in Embassies Presents Contemporary Conversations Lecture Series with Eric Fischl

National Gallery of Canada Magazine – Art in Embassies presents the Contemporary Conversations Lecture Series featuring Eric Fischl – The third in the Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy Ottawa and the National Gallery of Canada public dialogues will feature internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl. Hailed as one of the most influential figurative […]
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Bangor Daily News – Appleton artist’s ‘Library’ reaches international audience

Bangor Daily News- Appleton artist’s ‘Library’ reaches international audience – Artist Abbie Read of Appleton didn’t know what to make of the email that appeared in her inbox in spring 2014. “It said something like, ‘Hello, I’m with the Art in Embassies program and I’d like to talk with you about sending one of your […]
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Arizona Journal – Petrified Forest Inspires Painter

Arizona Journal – Northland Pioneer College students enjoyed the latest installation of Petrified Forest National Park’s Artist-In-Residence program, hosted Tuesday at the school’s Little Colorado Campus in Winslow. Petrified Forest Ranger Kip Woolford and NPC 2-D Art Professor Peterson Yazzie welcomed and presented the artist to 12 students beginning their second week of Yazzie’s Fine […]
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Washington Post – His parents wanted him to run the farm, but he had other ideas

Washington Post – Joseph Vodlan remembers the moment — about 70 years ago — that he became an artist. He was 5 or so years old, and playing with figurines made from pine bark at his family’s home in Slovenia. World War II was in progress, but this summer morning was calm. As he was […]
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IIP.gov U.S. Embassy in Sudan Unveils New Art Exhibition

IIP.gov – Ever since the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, unveiled its collection of 40 original artworks on June 24, embassy visitors have been enjoying an eclectic mix of paintings, sculptures, photographs and fiber works by Sudanese and American artists that explore such themes as ritual, identity, symbolism and spirituality. These works, assembled by curator […]
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Celebrating Artists with Disabilities

Art in Embassies Accepts Quilt from former U.S. Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith and VSA Tennessee – Art in Embassies is pleased to announce its acceptance of the 40 Days Around The World Quilt, a unique work of art generously donated to the Department of State by former U.S. Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith on behalf of […]
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Nick Cave at the U.S. Embassy Dakar

Nick Cave on his cross cultural artwork installed at the U.S. Embassy in Senegal.
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NGC Online – Contemporary Conversations Event Featuring Artist Nick Cave

NGC Online – Art in Embassies and U.S. Embassy Ottawa Partner with National Gallery of Canada on Contemporary Conversations Event Featuring Artist Nick Cave – The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) and U.S. Embassy Ottawa are pleased to announce the next event in the Contemporary Conversations series of public lectures by […]
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Vientiane Artist Exchange with 3 Generations of Navajo Weavers Video

Art in Embassies sent three generations of Navajo weavers (Sarah Naataanii, Tahnibaa Naataanii and Winter Rose Hoskie) to Laos for a weaving cultural exchange.
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WIBW.com – Mulvane Art Museum Loans 6 Paintings To U.S. Embassy in Moscow

WIBW.com – The Mulvane Art Museum was recently contacted by the Art in Embassies program of the U. S. State Department to lend several large paintings to the American Embassy in Moscow. The current ambassador to Russia, John F. Tefft, is originally from Wisconsin, and he requested landscape paintings that depicted the Midwest and the […]
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Boston Globe – Ambreen Butt demonstrates art of diplomacy

Boston Globe – Ambreen Butt demonstrates art of diplomacy. Ambreen Butt has always made political art. Early in her career, the Pakistani-born artist now based in the Boston area investigated the tug of two cultures in mixed-media paintings and drawings. These led Butt to make larger pieces, often painstakingly crafted from many tiny parts, exploring […]
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W Magazine – Diplomatic Dash

W Magazine – Ambassador James Costos and his partner, White House decorator Michael Smith, are zhushing up the U.S. Embassy in Madrid with visionary art – The decorator Michael Smith is an excitable kind of guy, and as he walks around the residence at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid pointing out some of the artworks […]
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The Ties That Bind

Art in Embassies in Ottawa: The Ties that Bind. When Vicki Heyman and her husband, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, want to get away for a few days, they head to Montreal to shop, eat and relax. “We’ve gone on our own, taken our friends and have been in Montreal on business. I just […]
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The Art Newspaper-Idris’s Diplomatic Art

The Art Newspaper – the Birmingham born artist Idris Khan is in demand: Art in Embassies, the public art programme founded by the US government which places works in US consulates worldwide, has commissioned a new work by the ubiquitous London based wunderkind. The piece, a stamp painting incorporating English text and Arabic calligraphy, is […]
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American Artist Lecture Series: Glenn Ligon at TATE Modern

Art in Embassies and TATE Modern are pleased to announce the next lecturer in the American Artist Lecture Series. Glenn Ligon will be the sixth speaker in the American Artist Lecture Series, a partnership between Art in Embassies, Tate Modern and US Embassy London. One of America’s leading contemporary artists, he is perhaps best known […]
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Art in Embassies Medal of Arts Award 2015 ceremony

Secretary of State John Kerry awarded the second U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts during a luncheon ceremony on January 21, 2015, in the Department’s Benjamin Franklin Room. The distinguished recipients of the 2015 Medal of Arts awards were Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, and Kehinde Wiley.
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A Conversation – Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden Video

The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) and U.S. Embassy Madrid collaborated to bring an artist lecture to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7 p.m. Featuring internationally acclaimed American artists Theaster Gates and Glenn Ligon in conversation with The Studio Museum in Harlem’s […]
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Contemporary Conversations: Interview with Marie Watt Video

While Marie Watt was in Ottawa for the launch of the Contemporary Conversations: Art in Embassies series, she spoke to us about how she feels her art reflects “Contemporary Conversations.” Follow the conversation and get involved using the hashtag #artconvoAIE!
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American artists fêted in Madrid

Artists honored at the AIE exhibition in Madrid – White House interior designer Michael S. Smith and his partner, US Ambassador to Spain James Costos, opened their newly decorated Madrid residence to visiting American art heavyweights last week. The dinner honored Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden, Glenn Ligon and Chicago-based Theaster Gates, visiting […]
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