First Tuesday of Every Month; 7 p.m.
FONZ Photo Club
Friends of the National Zoo members now have the opportunity to join the FONZ Photo Club. Benefits of the membership include monthly gatherings with interesting guest speakers and a chance to meet other photographers, opportunities to display your photographs on the National Zoo's website, and more.
National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
Ongoing
Photography Classes
The Smithsonian Associates offers photography classes geared towards all levels of experience, from the occasional snapshot clicker to the darkroom expert. They also offer an array specialized courses that include portraiture, landscape, pinhole photography, and photo theory.
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Washington, D.C.
November 2, 2007-November 2010
Discovering Rastafari!
This exhibition will feature rare photographs, video footage, artifacts, and ephemera to explore the origins and practice of the Rastafari religion in Jamaica and the movement's subsequent spread throughout the African Diaspora and the world.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
January 2009-October 2010
From Earth to the Universe
From Earth to the Universe (FETTU) is a collection of astronomical images that will showcase the most dramatic views of our Universe—planets, comets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and the clusters in which they congregate. FETTU is being exhibited in over 250 locations throughout the world in 2009 and 2010, and could be on its way to a location near you!
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Chandra X-ray Center
January 30, 2009-February 28, 2010
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise
This exhibition features more than one hundred images created by one of the premiere African American studios in the country and one of the longest-running black businesses in Washington.
National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
July 1, 2009-April 11, 2010
World View: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
From over seventeen thousand entries submitted from the United States and around the world to the Smithsonian magazine for its 6th Annual Photo Contest, fifty finalists were selected. The images selected represent the following five categories: The Natural World, People, Americana, Altered Images, and Travel.
Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, Washington, D.C.
November 5, 2009-May 31, 2010
Directions: John Gerrard
As part of the Directions series, this exhibition will feature works by Irish artist John Gerrard (b. 1974, Dublin) who photographed actual sites of farms and oil fields from 360 degrees and then simulated cinematic movement around the sites using the computer, complete with shifting, natural lighting effects.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
November 10, 2009-March 7, 2010
Yinka Shonibare MBE
This exhibition includes the media of painting, sculpture and installation, photography and moving images of the Nigerian-born artist, Yinka Shonibare MBE.
National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
January 15, 2010-April 25, 2010
Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
Rare artifacts and photographs from more than four hundred communities will be on view to explore the role of Catholic sisters in American life.
S. Dillon Ripley Center (International Gallery), Washington, D.C.
February 12, 2010-May 9, 2010
Framing the West: The Expedition Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
This exhibition features more than eighty photographs and stereographs of the American west by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882), a photographer for two of the most ambitious geographical surveys of the 19th century lead by Clarence King and Lt. George M. Wheeler.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
May 29, 2010-October 17, 2010
On Display, in the Field, in the Lab: 100 Years at the National Museum of Natural History
On view will be photographs, both old and new, that show how scientific researchers have relied on photography to document their findings and to reveal the natural world that lies hidden to the naked eye.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Permanent Exhibitions
Renovating a Landmark: From Patent Office to Reynolds Center
This small exhibition, installed in the historic fabric room located adjacent to the coatroom near the museums' F Street lobby, highlights aspects of the renovation with photographs, architectural artifacts from the building, and objects discovered during the excavation of the courtyard.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake
Through photographs, maps, ceremonial and everyday objects, and interactives, this panel display provides both an overview of the history and events affecting the Native peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region and information on their continued presence today.
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
The centerpiece of the gallery is the original 1903 Wright Flyer, displayed on the ground for the first time since acquired by the Smithsonian in 1948. Also on view are 250 photographs and 150 other artifacts.
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
