Skip to main content

Programs

That program or program list could not be found.

Try doing a text search for your program, or browse our programs using the calendar and program type filters.

All upcoming programs

Programs 1 to 10 of 298
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
In-Person Studio Arts Course

Using watercolors and graphite, capture the nuances of the light and flora at the beautiful United States Botanic Garden. This intensive landscape painting experience focuses on helping you see the gardens through Cézanne’s eyes and then develop your own Post-Impressionist interpretation. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)


Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Online Studio Arts Course

After painting in enchanting Giverny during the summer, Cindy Briggs brings her passion for the idyllic scenery painted by many of the Impressionists to the Smithsonian. Whether you're a seasoned artist or an experienced beginner, come on this colorful journey to create your own watercolor painting inspired by Monet's legacy.


Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET

Historian Clay Jenkinson has chosen 10 magnificent images to explore how great photographs epitomize a moment or an era, capture an extraordinary event, provide a window into the human condition, or make us ache with appreciation and wonder. Jenkinson tells the backstory of each photograph, covering who took it, when, under what circumstances, what has happened in the aftermath, and what influence the image has had on the world. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)


Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET

The 2024 presidential campaign and national election are poised to shape America’s trajectory for the next four years and beyond, marking one of the most caustic, bitter and pervasively negative periods in U.S. political history. In a fact-based, non-partisan presentation, veteran White House correspondent, historian, and author Ken Walsh discusses the outcome of this historic election with a focus on explaining what’s ahead for our republic in this age of distrust and division.


Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET

The word “psychotherapy” is derived from the Greek psyche, meaning soul, and therapiea, meaning healing. Thus, psychotherapy is “soul healing,” the term used by ancient philosophers to describe important functions of philosophical reflection: to help people live a good life, seek answers to vexing personal questions, and bring their souls into consonance with the nature of existence. Philosophical counselor Samir Chopra explores the history of philosophy understood as therapy and explains the methods of modern philosophical counseling.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Online Studio Arts Workshop

Procreate for iPad contains powerful features that can be intimidating at any experience level. This 3-hour workshop guides students through advanced techniques using Procreate to create an animated photo illustration.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET

George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is a work of triumphant joy, born in an age of anxiety: Britain in the early 18th century, a time of war, political conspiracy, enslavement, and conflicts over everything from the legitimacy of government to the meaning of truth. Historian Charles King draws on his new book, Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah, to unearth the backstory to a beloved classic and the tortured lives and times that made a musical monument to hope.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET

Many film scholars argue that the 1970s were the greatest decade of film, focusing on the mavericks of “New Hollywood” such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg. But Washington City Paper film critic Noah Gittell argues that this handful of filmmakers represents an incomplete snapshot of the era and looks beyond them to find a decade of dazzling variety that included Hal Ashby, Elaine May, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, and Gordon Parks.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET

As an impending crisis in Europe developed in the 1930s, Winston Churchill—out of government and with little power—turned his country home, Chartwell, into the headquarters of his campaign against Nazi Germany. Katherine Carter, Chartwell’s curator, discusses how the remarkable but little-known meetings with trusted advisers and informants that that took place there strengthened Churchill’s fight against the Nazis.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET

Railroads have played an important role in every American conflict since 1860. Curator Patricia LaBounty of the Union Pacific Museum draws from the photographic archives to survey the unique ways that railroaders supported American war efforts, from the transportation of soldiers across the country to the operation of railway operating battalions abroad.