Face-to-Face, from the National Portrait Gallery

Face-to-Face, from the National Portrait Gallery

Face-to-Face is a podcast series from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Listen to Face-to-Face portrait talks, interviews with artists, and lectures from the museum. Face-to-Face portrait talks occur every Thursday at 6pm, in the museum. For more, see the Face-to-Face blog at http://face2face.si.edu/ and the National Portrait Gallery's website at http://npg.si.edu/

Episodes

January 6, 2015 4 mins
Guest presenter Alina Collins Maldonado, Head of Education at the Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington, D.C., discusses a 1993 photograph of Selena by Al Rendon.
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Ann Shumard, Senior Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, discusses an 1851 daguerreotype portrait of Lucretia Coffin Mott.
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Artist Bo Gehring discusses his 2014 portrait of Esperanza Spalding
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The NPG's Warren Perry discusses William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Giant landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
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October 7, 2014 1 min
Giant landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
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September 25, 2014 2 mins
NPG senior historian David C. Ward discusses Charles Willson Peale.
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The NPG's Jewell Robinson discusses Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
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A Monument Gets a Makeover
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April 25, 2014 2 mins
A recap of 2014, so far, at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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March 19, 2014 2 mins
NPG writer Warren Perry discusses Benjamin Butler
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Interview with artist Vincent Giarrano, Portrait Competition 2013
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Interview with artist Katie O'Hagan, Portrait Competition 2013
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Interview with artist Jason Hanasik, Portrait Competition 2013
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Interview with photographer Louie Palu, Portrait Competition 2013
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Interview with photographer Tema Stauffer, Portrait Competition 2013
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Interview with artist Jill Wissmiller, Portrait Competition 2013
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December 16, 2013 2 mins
The NPG's Warren Perry discusses a 1946 self portrait by Elaine de Kooning.
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December 11, 2013 5 mins
A recap of 2013 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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Interview with artist Neil Shigley, Portrait Competition 2013
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