Celebrating Three Centuries of American Art Through a Historian's Lens

SAAM's 2026 Director's Circle Dinner celebrated our newly installed second floor galleries of 18th to early 20th century American Art. This video features a conversation with acclaimed historian David Blight and Senior Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, with an introduction by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and a special message from Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.