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…
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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.
Ann Shumard, Senior Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, discusses an 1851 daguerreotype portrait of Lucretia Coffin Mott.
Artist Bo Gehring discusses his 2014 portrait of Esperanza Spalding
The NPG's Warren Perry discusses William Tecumseh Sherman.
Giant landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
Giant landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
NPG senior historian David C. Ward discusses Charles Willson Peale.
The NPG's Jewell Robinson discusses Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
A recap of 2014, so far, at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
NPG writer Warren Perry discusses Benjamin Butler
Interview with artist Vincent Giarrano, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Katie O'Hagan, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Jason Hanasik, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with photographer Louie Palu, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with photographer Tema Stauffer, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Jill Wissmiller, Portrait Competition 2013
The NPG's Warren Perry discusses a 1946 self portrait by Elaine de Kooning.
A recap of 2013 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Interview with artist Neil Shigley, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Saeri Kiritani, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Bly Pope, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Martha Mayer Erlebacher, Commended Artist, Portrait Competition 2013
Theatrical tour by local teens that brings the Portrait Gallery's collection to life.
Interview with artist Heidi Fancher, Commended Artist, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Paul D'Amato, Commended Artist, Portrait Competition 2013
NPG writer Warren Perry discusses Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Interview with artist Beverly McIver, Commended Artist, Portrait Competition 2013
Historian Dan Okrent discusses Pauline Sabin and her effort to repeal prohibition
NPG historian David C. Ward discusses Robert Frost
Interview with artist Sequoyah Aono, Third Prize, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Jennifer Levonian, Second Prize, Portrait Competition 2013
Interview with artist Bo Gehring, First Prize, Portrait Competition 2013
NPG historian David C. Ward discusses Jefferson Davis,
NPG historian David C. Ward discusses Stonewall Jackson
Photography curator Frank Goodyear discusses an 1858 portrait of John Pelham by Mathew Brady.
David C. Ward, historian at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses poet Marianne Moore.
Amy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses the upcoming exhibition "Dancing the Dream" on view from October 4, 2013 - July 13, 2014.
General Colin Powell's portrait, by artist Ronald Sherr, was unveiled and added to the National Portrait Gallery collection on December 2, 2012. Sherr discussed his portrait in this gallery talk, December 3, 2012.
General Colin Powell's portrait, by artist Ronald Sherr, was unveiled and added to the National Portrait Gallery collection on December 2, 2012. Powell was interviewed by NPR's Michele Norris as part of the ceremony.
Amy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses Samuel F. B. Morse and the painting "Men of Progress" by artist Christian Schussele
Warren Perry, writer at NPG, talks about a portrait of Richard Nixon by Norman Rockwell
Warren Perry, writer at NPG, talks about a portrait of Lyndon Johnson by Peter Hurd
"John Quincy Adams" -- author Harlow Unger discusses his book.
Warren Perry, writer at NPG, talks about a portrait of FDR by Douglas Chandor
A look at two busts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by sculptor Jo Davidson
Warren Perry, writer at NPG, talks about F. Scott Fitzgerald
Warren Perry, writer at NPG, talks about Ernest Hemingway
David Ward, historian at NPG, talks about artist Charles Willson Peale
The NPG's Warren Perry discusses artist Miguel Covarrubias