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Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes

In commemoration of Military Family Month, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) proudly announces the “Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes” photography exhibition, which will be featured on Verizon Center’s video marquees. In recognition of AIE’s 50th anniversary, the U.S. Department of State collaborated with the U.S. Department of Defense on a […]

AIE announces next artist in the American Artist Lecture Series

The U.S. Department of State, office of Art in Embassies (AIE) is pleased to announce the third iteration of the AIE’s American Artist Lecture Series, on November 4 at Tate Modern, London. In celebration of AIE’s 50th anniversary and in collaboration with Embassy London and Tate, the three-year-long program features a total of six noted […]

The Art of Diplomacy in Jamaica

The Art of Diplomacy (from the Jamaican Observer) – US Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater soon after she had arrived in the island, at an art exhibition at the now shuttered Mutual Gallery, where she had been a habituée when she was first posted here in the 1980s as a labour attaché at a time […]

AIE Artist named MacArthur Fellow

Art in Embassies congratulates Carrie Mae Weems for her recent award as a MacArthur Fellow! AIE artist Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist examining the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. Her intimate depictions of children, adults, and families in simple settings […]

Photographer and Video Artist Carrie Mae Weems, 2013 MacArthur Fellow

Photographer and Video Artist Carrie Mae Weems was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2013. The Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at http://www.macfound.org/fellows.

Patrick Dougherty installing High Jinx at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade

This kind of work reaches out on a real human level to people around the world and says… we have a huge commonality with you…” – Patrick Dougherty, High Jinx

Chris Flisher, 12-Point Lotus, 2004, Watercolor, pen and ink, Courtesy of the artist, Boxborough, Massachusetts

The Spirit Connection

The Spirit Connection: Chris Flisher Brings The Art Of Mandala To Cape Verde Through Art In Embassies Entering the hotel lobby I spotted Chris Flisher right away. Long grey flowing hair, laid-back composure. We are sitting down for a chat at a hotel in Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa, where Flisher has […]

Boxborough artist meets Ambassador to Praia

Art in Embassies and the American Embassy in Praia, Cape Verde recently collaborated on an Artist Exchange with artist Chris Flisher of Boxborough, who writes the “Oh My Stars” column and “Turning of The Wheel” blog for The Beacon. Flisher visited Cape Verde from July 8 to July 15 to conduct workshops and presentations at […]

Diplomacy Through Art. An interview with Maria Pekala

Diplomacy Through Art. An interview with Maria Pekala: Fifty years ago President John F. Kennedy formalized an Art in Embassies programme, which ever since then has found ways to facilitate exhibitions of American art around the world – mainly by displaying artworks in the U.S. Department’s diplomatic facilities throughout the world (including Embassies andAmbassadors’ residences). […]

AIE helps raise local artist profiles

AIE helps raise local artist profiles – When showing her work in Washington D.C. a couple of years ago at the Smithsonian Craft Show, textile artist Leah Evans’ work caught the eye of the U.S. ambassador to Rwanda. Now, one of Evans’ quilts hangs in the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, part of the Art […]

Leah Evans, Cooling Canals, 2010, Quilt, Courtesy of the artist, Madison, Wisconsin

Vogue ES – Art in Embassies Madrid 2009

Edward Hopper was there. On the beach near the summer home of Solomont. And they, Susan and Alan Solomont , U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra since 2010, began his magnificent art collection with a photo of Joel Meyerowitz reflecting the quiet atmosphere of Hopper in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. “The acquired in 1986 for seven […]

MICA – Juxtapositions

Members of the MICA community are internationally recognized among the Most dynamic artists In the world. In fact, more than 60 MICA faculty members and alumni have been commissioned by the U.S. Department of State’s Arts in Embassies program, which was inaugurated to enhance U.S. public diplomacy through cross-cultural dialogue centered around the visual arts […]

Trade Winds Volume 7

On November 29, five of the world’s most recognized artists-Cai Guo-Qiang, Jeff Koons, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems-gathered to discuss art and diplomacy. This public event followed an open house with students from The Washington Ballet, The Corcoran ArtReach, the Levine School of Music, and the Washington of artist Nick Cave at […]

readartny.com – A Galactic Botanic Voyage, Peter D. Gerakaris

readartny.com – I have been inspired to write extensively about Peter D. Gerakaris’ work in the U.S. Art in Embassies (AIE) permanent collection, currently on exhibit at the Libreville Embassy in Gabon, Africa. This essay is meant as outreach to those who are unable to view Gerakaris’ tondos in situ. Furthermore, I seek to bring […]

Jenny Abell, Book Cover No. 137, 2013, Mixed media

Jenny Abell selected for artwork commission U.S. Embassy Dakar

Jenny Abell Dakar Commission -Healdsburg art lovers have been able to see work by Jenny Honnert Abell for almost seven years at Hammerfriar Gallery, but soon the Santa Rosa artist will have international exposure.As part of the State Department’s Art in Embassy Program, 10 of her works will be permanently installed in the new U.S. […]

Art in the Embassies exhibition with Ambassador Heffern

Art in the Embassies opening in Yerevan, Armenia with Ambassador Heffern.

Beth Zmerzlikar, Red Bird on a Tree Branch, Watercolor and graphite on paper, Courtesy of the artist and Creativity Explored, San Francisco, California

Chief Medicine Crow, 65 years, Crow Tribe Joseph Dixon, Chief Medicine Crow, 65 years, Crow Tribe, 1908, Archival pigment copy print from original photograph, Courtesy of the William Hammond Mathers Museum, Indiana University, and Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.

Beginnings – Art in Embassies

The new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe has just embarked on his tour of duty here. Perhaps that is why it is fitting that the Art In Embassies (AIE) collection at his residence is appropriately themed Beginnings. Although he was last here a decade ago Ambassador Bruce Wharton is beginning his tenure as Washington’s man in […]

Helping Hands – Ambassador Heffern

Helping Hands – Ambassador Heffern’s Video Blog – Episode 36 with International Disabilities Day

Gordon Chin, Zither, 2006, Acrylic on plexiglas, Courtesy of the artist and Creativity Explored, San Francisco, California

Town and Country – Ambassador Rivkin 2009

Charles Rivkin was strapped into a Parachute, and he didn’t let strong winds deter him as the helicopter hovered over Normandy. the occasion was a mass jump with the U.s. army’s Golden Knights to commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-Day, last June, and it was the ambassador’s first free fall. Some jumpers landed in trees […]

Art in Embassies Makes a Splash for 50th Anniversary

Art in Embassies Makes a Splash for 50th Anniversary – In his book “The First Resort of Kings,” Richard Arndt, a former cultural attaché with the State Department, stressed the power of art as a diplomatic tool to encourage cultural exchange despite language and other hurdles. “The arts have always had the advantage of transcending […]

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