VISIONARY EVENINGS with Kim Sajet

VISIONARY EVENINGS

Kim Sajet
Director of the National Portrait Gallery

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at  6:00 pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Members & Guests $10

Non-Members $20

Club member and choreographer in residence for the Smithsonian, Dana Tai Soon Burgess interviews the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet.
As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to make the past personal and deepen our understanding of how people have changed the course of history.

Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then as director of two Australian art museums from 1989 until 1995.

Burgess is the Smithsonian's choreographer in residence and director of Washington's premiere modern dance company dtsbdc.org. His popular podcast, slantpodcast.com is available on all listening platforms.

Discounted parking after 6 pm at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.

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