Name: Homelands: Exploring Complexity through Close Looking at Art
Start: 2026-08-05T14:15:00-0400
End: 2026-08-05T16:15:00-0400

WISIT Summer Institute 2026

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

Homelands: Exploring Complexity through Close Looking at Art

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Wednesday August 5, 2026 2:15pm - 4:15pm EDT

National Gallery of Art - East Building

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How might works of art help deepen understanding of complex ideas and nurture empathy? How does “place” shape our identity? Participants will explore the exhibition Homelands, which shares diverse experiences of migration, immigration, displacement, and resettlement. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the power and catharsis of telling one’s story through art. Through slow looking and thinking routines, we’ll consider how homeland stories reveal the complex and changing relationships between people and ideas of place, land, and home.
On view through August 1, 2027, the exhibition Homelands includes works by Kay WalkingStick, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Freddy Rodriguez, Do Ho Suh, Hung Liu, Hank Willis Thomas, Rashid Johnson, and Guadalupe Maravilla.

Participants will meet at the entrance to the "Homelands" exhibition on the Mezzanine of the National Gallery of Art's East Building.

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Nathalie Ryan

National Gallery of Art

Nathalie Ryan is a Senior Educator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, where she has led programs for educators, families, teens, and the adult public since 2002. Her current work at the National Gallery is researching awe and well-being in the museum with Professor Dacher... Read More →

Wednesday August 5, 2026 2:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
National Gallery of Art - East Building

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