Skip to main content

Smithsonian Associates Streaming

Your newest link to our world of learning

Welcome to Smithsonian Associates Streaming, a new digital platform for the high-quality, engaging and varied programs that you've come to expect from us.

We invite you to join us from the comfort of your home as we present individual programs, multi-part courses, studio arts classes, and virtual study tours inspired by the Smithsonian's research, collections and exhibitions. We're excited to present this new aspect of our 55 years as the largest museum education program in the world—and to have you be an important part of our future growth.

Explore all our offerings in this month's digital program guide.

Introduction to Scientific Illustration – Watercolor and Ink 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Venus, Shrouded in Mystery
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET
Build Your Photographic Portfolio
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
A Journey Through Ancient China
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Botanical Illustration in Redwork
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
Wirework Intensive: Rings
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Photographing Industrial Items
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Colonial India’s Complex History
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Jane Austen: Forever Fascinating
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Surrealism: Hands-On History of Photography
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Creating with Pressed Botanicals
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Hokusai’s Career in Prints
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Aaron Burr: The Most Controversial Founding Father
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Death Valley, California
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Circular Weaving
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
The Legacy of the Treaty of Versailles
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
A Journey Through Ancient China
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Renoir: The Gift of Joy
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Exploring the Visual Foundations and Traditions of Art
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET
The Bronze Age: Civilization and Collapse
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Landscape of Change: Historic Acadia National Park
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Mixed-Media Art Warmups
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Understanding Modern Art
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Understanding Your Digital Mirrorless or SLR Camera
Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Growing Show Orchids
Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
World War II in Poland: Significant Sites, Events, and Stories
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET
How Disney Conquered the Entertainment Universe
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Elgin Marbles Controversy
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Reading Moby-Dick: The World in a Whale
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Churchill's Secret Army: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Quakers and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Remnants of Life: The New Science of Ancient Biomolecules
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
A Journey Through Ancient China
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Macro Photography
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
U.S.–China Relations: Managing Long-term Rivalry
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Hands-On History of Photography: The Cyanotype 
Saturday, June 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: WWII Omaha Beach, 1944
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Mastering the Masters
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
A History of Cartography: From Stone Scratches to Crisis Mapping
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Lady Jane Grey: First Tudor Queen or Royal Traitor?
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Philip Johnson and the Glass House: A Life in Art
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Real Lives of Jews in the Traditional World
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Crisis Along the Colorado: How a Water Shortage Threatens the West
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Discovering the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Art Collection
Friday, June 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Deutschland Entkorkt: Uncorking Germany’s Best
Friday, June 23, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Lightroom Classic
Saturday, June 24, 2023 - 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Introduction to White-Line Woodblock Printing
Saturday, June 24, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Pterosaurs: Soaring Above the Dinosaurs
Sunday, June 25, 2023 - 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET
The Intersection of Art and Literature: Walker Evans and James Agee
Sunday, June 25, 2023 - 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Conservation Heroes
Monday, June 26, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
What an Owl Knows: New Insights into the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Monday, June 26, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: WWII Stalingrad, 1942–1943
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
The View from Here: A Reflective Writing Workshop
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Henry David Thoreau on Work
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Earth, Our Habitable Home
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET
Steel in America: A Photographic Journey
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Underwater Worlds
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Black-and-White Film Developing at Home
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Portrait Drawing
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Photo 101: Natural-Light Photography
Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Four Royal Marriages: Unions that Shaped the Monarchy
Saturday, July 8, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Calligraphy: The Foundational Hand
Saturday, July 8, 2023 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Sketchbook Habit: The Art of Everyday Life
Sunday, July 9, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Watercolor
Sunday, July 9, 2023 - 10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. ET
Introduction to Afghan Manuscript Illumination
Sunday, July 9, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Space Station Smithsonian
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Beginning Drawing
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
The Joy of Photography
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
How FDR Challenged the Nation: From Isolation to Ally
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Yosemite, California
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: The Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1281
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Photography
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Watercolor Techniques and Textures
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Magic of Light and Shadow in Watercolor
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Basic Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Exoplanets: The Cutting-Edge Science Behind Recent Discoveries
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Botanical Illustration in Redwork
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Altered Books
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Build a Tiny House
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Photography II
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Slow Shutter-Speed Photography
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
An Alphabet of Greek Philosophers: Thinkers from Anaximander to Zeno
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Art of India: From the Indus Valley to Independence
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Art of Floral Design
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Beading
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Bienvenu à la Maison: French Architectural Details in Watercolor
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Photo 101: Apertures, Shutter Speeds, and Exposure Modes
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Techniques in Modernist Painting
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Planning Operation Overlord: Behind the Normandy Invasion
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
California’s Channel Islands: The Galapagos of North America
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 8:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. ET
Leonard Bernstein: The Man Who Could Do Anything
Saturday, July 15, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Virginia Woolf's Literary Genius
Saturday, July 15, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Artful Mind, Tranquil Mind
Monday, July 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Timeline Travelers
Monday, July 17, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Why Do Predators Matter?
Monday, July 17, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Why We Fight: American Propaganda in World War II
Monday, July 17, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Mosaics for Beginners
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Schiaparelli and the Surrealists: The Art of Fashion
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
From Millionaires Row to Embassy Row: Massachusetts Avenue in the Gilded Age
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Food from the Forest: Shopping at Nature’s Grocery
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
1973: The Year in Film
Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Sur la Plage: Painting the Beach
Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Photo 101: Understanding ISO
Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
The Whole Hog: A Pitmaster’s Celebration of Tradition
Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The ABCs of Italian Wine
Friday, July 21, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Watercolor Workshop: Quick-Sketch for a Day
Saturday, July 22, 2023 - 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET
Fancy-Fold Cards for All Occasions
Saturday, July 22, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
The Painterly Gel Print
Saturday, July 22, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
The Intersection of Art and Literature: William Blake, Poet and Painter
Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Entertaining and Design at the White House
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Innovative Art
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Make Your Mark
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Color Stories Journal
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Botanical Illustration: Watercolor Flowers
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Rediscovering James Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Our Moon, Lighting the Way
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET
Achieving Balanced Compositions in Photography
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Frida Kahlo: Her Art and Life
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Photo 101: Exposures and Histograms
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Art Nouveau: New Style for a New Century
Saturday, July 29, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
George Washington in Barbados: A Remarkable Journey
Monday, July 31, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Anatomical Drawing
Tuesday, August 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Abstract Watercolor for Beginners
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Build a Tiny Interior
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Focus and Depth of Field
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Drawing Heads, Hands, and Feet
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Exploring the Arts of Latin America
Thursday, August 3, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Complete Colored Pencils
Thursday, August 3, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Taking Better Photos
Thursday, August 3, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Composition
Monday, August 7, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Stepping Forward: Women Designers 1900–1950
Monday, August 7, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
The Epic Story of Wildlife and People in America
Monday, August 7, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Ayn Rand: The Controversy Continues
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Cave Art: Where it All Began
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks: Grandmasters of Comedy
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Explorations in Art and Poetry
Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
From One Cell: Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Humor and Humanism
Friday, August 11, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Lightroom Classic
Saturday, August 12, 2023 - 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Bead Weaving: On and Off the Loom
Saturday, August 12, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Kurt Weill: Romantic Satirist, Modern Populist
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Golden Age of Vienna: The Art of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
America’s Main Street: Pennsylvania Avenue
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Deep Ocean: A Mysterious World Beneath the Waves
Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Drink Like an Italian Sommelier
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Crepe Paper Flowers: Clematis
Saturday, August 19, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Reading Faulkner: Chronicler of the Deep South in Literature
Monday, August 21, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Summer's Discoveries: A Reflective Writing Workshop
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Celebrities in Chief: American Presidents and the Culture of Stardom
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Bonsai: Small Wonders
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Only Winner in War Is Medicine
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Animal Portraits in Colored Pencil
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
The Body Farm: What the Bones Reveal
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Hudson River School: Art, History, Science, and National Identity
Friday, August 25, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
The Intersection of Art and Literature: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Sunday, August 27, 2023 - 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Private Art Collections of Rome, Part 2: The Borghese Gallery
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Age-Proof Your Brain
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Mars, Voted Most Likely
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting in France
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Jesuits in the United States: A Modern Perspective on 500 Years
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Genius of Sergei Rachmaninoff
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Indigenous DC: Native American Peoples and the Nation's Capital
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
The Making of England
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Visual Journaling: Creativity Workout
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Yellowstone, Wyoming
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Over the Rainbow: The Hollywood Career of Judy Garland
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
The Impact of Ferdinand and Isabella: From Christopher Columbus to Charles III
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Edward Hopper: American Modernist
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Pursuit of Happiness: The African American Diaspora in the Revolutionary War
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Scarlet Letter
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Ganges: River and Goddess
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
New York City in the Gilded Age: A Cultural History
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Piedmont Wines Explored
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Countering The Myth of the Lost Cause: Truths About the Past
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Catcher in the Rye
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Great Cathedrals and Basilicas of Italy
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Exploring the Cluny Museum in Paris
Monday, October 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Exploring Ancient Anatolia: A Turkish Odyssey
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET