Name: Excavating Memory and Imagining the Future with Nick Cave: "Mammoth"
Start: 2026-08-05T10:45:00-0400
End: 2026-08-05T12:45:00-0400

WISIT Summer Institute 2026

August 3 to 7, 2026
Washington International School, Tregaron Campus

Excavating Memory and Imagining the Future with Nick Cave: "Mammoth"

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Wednesday August 5, 2026 10:45am - 12:45pm EDT

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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What does the word "mammoth" evoke for you? Do you see a lumbering, long-extinct tusked mammal? Or do you think of the adjective to describe something enormous? What events, people, places, or objects hold mammoth significance in your life? In American culture? In his new exhibition Mammoth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Nick Cave invites us into a world built from memory, imagination, and the materials of everyday life. Through individual writing and group discussion, we'll explore the stories embedded in our surroundings and the objects we collect, using thinking routines to guide us.

Participants will meet at the G Street Lobby of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Phoebe Hillemann

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Phoebe Hillemann is the Teacher Institutes Educator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she utilizes Project Zero ideas to spark curiosity, facilitate connection-making, and inspire meaningful learning. She has been on staff at SAAM since 2012, and manages the Museum’s... Read More →

Wednesday August 5, 2026 10:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th and G Streets, NW Washington, DC 20004

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