PAST: ART: American University Museum at the Katzen Center has Six Shows on view now! SAT, Sept 3rd - SUN, Oct 23rd & WED, Dec 14th, Free!

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

Six exhibitions on view now

Free

There will be an official Opening Reception for these shows on

Saturday, September 17th

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Free

The shows below run through October 23rd

Gifts of Duncan Phillips

Saturday, September 3rd – Sunday, October 23rd

Works donated by Co-founder of The Phillips Collection, Duncan Phillips. In conjunction with 90 Years of New, a celebration of the opening of The Phillips Collection in 1921.

Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial

Saturday, September 3rd – Sunday, October 23rd

Anonymous was listening to the radio on 9/11 when two airplanes collided with the World Trade Center and created a scroll inkblot drawing with two leaves falling. There was another work later that day with three leaves. Then four leaves. More scrolls with more leaves were created in the weeks of crisis that followed. Falling leaves and leaving.

These shows run through December 14th

Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra

Saturday, September 3rd – Wednesday, December 14th

Over the course of this exhibition’s development, Barrar traveled to America, New Zealand, Australia, and France, seeking out the subterranean places in which people live, work, and play.

Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta

Saturday, September 3rd – Wednesday, December 14th

The Podesta’s are avid collectors of contemporary art, best known for collecting cutting edge and avant-garde work. This exhibition will highlight the work of four artists whose art is collected by these prominent local collectors.

Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam

Saturday, September 3rd – Wednesday, December 14th

This major retrospective examines the work of Louise Rosskam (1910–2003), an elusive pioneer of the golden age of American documentary photography. It highlights her compelling photographs of SW DC neighborhoods before their destruction for urban renewal as well as her images of Puerto Rico, as it developed from a poor United States colony to an industrialized commonwealth whose political status remains a contested issue.

Seismic Dream, a sculpture & sound installation

in the Sylvia Berlin Sculpture Garden

by sculptor Pattie Porter Firestone and composer Barbara Buchanan

Saturday, September 3rd – Wednesday, December 14th

Seismic Dream combines original sculpture, music and poetry in a dreamscape conveying a wavelike energy transcending space and time. Using the medium of twisted steel moving in and out of the walls, the waves draw one into a dream, to feel both large and small in relation to nature. A poem on the sculpture garden wall enhances these promptings.

The Museum and store hours:

Tuesday - Sunday

11:00am - 4:00pm

and one hour before Katzen events

Katzen Arts Center at American University

4400 Massachusetts Av, NW

Metro: Tenleytown and take the free AU Shuttle, tell them you are going to the Katzen Center, you can also park in the lot under the museum if you have a car for free on weekdays after 5:00pm and for free on the weekends. Meter parking before 5:00pm.