2026

Explore the groundbreaking work of ten influential women photographers whose images redefined visual storytelling and shaped photography as one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic and cultural mediums.

Jackson's paintings, sculptures, and designs transform the gallery into a domestic space that explores how close we’ve come to a future earlier generations have imagined.

A Shreveport, LA native, Patterson brings more than fifteen years of work to Persistent Vision, his first museum exhibition in his home state, presenting bronze and steel sculptures that weave African diasporic motifs and the improvisational language of jazz into…

In the summer of 1976, as the country celebrated its Bicentennial, the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife brought Cajun and Creole musicians to the National Mall as recognized bearers of a national heritage. Louisiana artist Elemore Morgan, Jr. was there…