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High School senior triumphs in contest through Art in Embassies

Berlin High School senior triumphs in contest through Art in Embassies

Local artist’s work chosen to hang in the U.S. embassy in Cameroon

In an Oak Park home, there are two art studios. One belongs to Justin Bean, an abstract painter, and the other belongs to his wife, Emily Bean, a fabric sculptor. While his day job is with a nonprofit and hers is in advertising, their after-dinner activities take them into separate studios to work on current […]

Fusion of Art, Cultures and Diplomacy

Connections between the natural environment of our country and the North American infrastructure are those established in the new building complex of the United States embassy in Paraguay, soon to be inaugurated. The complex brings together elements of nature, culture and art from our countries.

Ambassador Mark Brzezinski’s Remarks at AIE Opening Reception

Welcome to the house of the American people for the opening of the Art in Embassies exhibition. We have invited you here to discuss the beautiful pieces that are on display in this home, but first, I have a surprise for you...

Berea artist’s work to grace a U.S. embassy

Berea artist’s work to grace a U.S. embassy. When City resident Augusto Bordelois received an email a month or so ago, bearing a U.S. Department of State label...

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe member Jessica Leigh Gokey

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe member Jessica Leigh Gokey will be on exhibit at the United States Embassy in the Vatican in Rome, Italy.

AIE Chisinau adds local artist to upcoming exhibition

"I still feel like I’m off the radar. I still function as an underground artist. To be included was an enormous honor.”

Artist has painting selected for display at US embassy in Canada

“I’ve always felt incredibly honored to help represent our country with art...Some of my favorite historical painters, like Thom Thomson, were Canadians, so this is a special honor.”

In the world of Arts – Baku

In the world of arts: report from evening at residence of US Ambassador to Azerbaijan - U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Earle Litzenberger has hosted a reception at his residence to showcase the examples of American fine art presented under the U.S. State Department's 'Art in Embassies' program (AIE)

US Envoy Hosts Kuwaiti Creatives

US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina L Romanowski hosted diplomats and a broad range of Kuwaitis at her residence on Monday for an Art in Embassies reception.

ABOVE: Workers prepare Arthur Miller’s artwork for shipment to a U.S. Embassy in Africa. RIGHT: Miller shows one of his works selected for display in the official residence of Sandra E. Clark, the U.S. ambassador to Burkina Fasou in West Africa.

From the Wyoming Valley to Africa with Pride

Arthur Miller photographer is described as “a semi-impressionistic view of Frances Slocum State Park, Luzerne County, PA, titled ‘Ducks In A Row” was selected for the Art in Embassies exhibition in Ouagadougou.

Art in Embassies Registry

Ask not what your art can do for you, but what your art can do for your country –

A Whirling Porcelain Coral Reef Draws Attention to the Cost of Climate Change

The latest installation by ceramicist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison is Confluence (Our Changing Seas V), a porcelain coral arrangement produced for the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Artist Lecture Series with Idris Khan

Art in Embassies will partner with The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on May 31, 2018, to bring renowned contemporary artist Idris Khan to Washington DC for an artist talk.

Stephen Wilkes’ Day to Night photograph documents historic Canada Day 2017

On Canada Day, 2017, while thousands waited in lineups in the pelting rain for a spot on Parliament Hill, someone was watching from a fourth floor window across Wellington Street.

Stephen Wilkes has merged a Canada Day morning for a new Contemporary Conversation

“It had all the elements that I look for when I create these pictures. I love the grandeur of the architecture, I love having the sense of humanity in the foreground and that all these things would be going on during the day and into the night and then the fireworks at the end was […]

British envoy calls for cordial bilateral ties

Islamabad-The British High Commissioner, Thomas Drew CMG Tuesday said that the youth will decide Pakistan’s future. Speaking at a ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Pak-UK relations, the envoy said, “It will be up to the people who are here today – the future leaders – who will decide which direction Pakistan heads in […]

Vermont Artist Wolf Kahn wins U.S. State Department Honor

Vermont artist Wolf Kahn has reaped many awards in a life as colorful as his work, but the 89-year-old just traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive his first medal. “It’s big and heavy, with a blue ribbon you can put around your neck,” he says. “I thought I was getting the Medal of Freedom the […]

Deputy Secretary Blinken To Award the 2017 Medal of Arts

Deputy Secretary Blinken To Award the 2017 U.S. Department of State International Medal of Arts Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken will present contemporary artists Nick Cave, Jenny Holzer, Wolf Kahn, Imran Qureshi, Pat Steir, and Rachel Whiteread with the U.S. Department of State International Medal of Arts at the biennial ceremony at 4:00 p.m. […]

Meet the Artists at the Hirshhorn

As part of a “Meet the Artists” panel, Nick Cave, Imran Qureshi, and Pat Steir will join art critic and journalist Deborah Solomon for an enlightening discussion on their commitment to cultural diplomacy through the visual arts and international cultural exchange. Cave, Qureshi and Steir are three recipients of the 2017 International Medal of Arts, […]

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