American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Dedicated to local, international, and political art. Wednesday-Sunday 11:00AM-4:00PM.

Housed in the dynamic and multidisciplinary Katzen Arts Center, the American University Museum builds its programming on the strengths of a great college and great university. We focus on international art because American University has a global commitment. We show political art because the university is committed to human rights, social justice, and political engagement. We support the artists i

n our community because the university takes an active and responsible role in the formation of our contemporary art and culture. We present exhibitions that mirror American University’s aspiration to be the premier Washington-based, global university. Our programming puts the best art of our region in a national and international context. Our collections enable us to present the art history of Washington, while our Kunsthalle attitude brings the most provocative art of our time to our place.

✨ Throwing it back this Thursday to last weekend's sensational Summer '26 Opening Reception!Artists and curators represe...
06/18/2026

✨ Throwing it back this Thursday to last weekend's sensational Summer '26 Opening Reception!

Artists and curators representing all seven exhibitions came out to celebrate with art lovers, politicians, and the AU community for a memorable night at the museum.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in welcoming:

🎨 A. Brockie Stevenson: An American Vision
🎨 Ghost in the Machine: Works by Timothy Makepeace
🎨 Where Water Keeps Time: Graphite Drawings by Janis Goodman
🎨 Susan Goldman: Prima Vista
🎨 Bonnie Lautenberg: ARTISTICA! Where Hollywood Meets Art History
🎨 Richard Dana: People, Places and Otherwise
🎨 Gail Rebhan: What Questions Do We Ask?

Here's to a fantastic summer of art! ☀️🖼️✨
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GALLERY TALK! Where Water Keeps Time🗓️Saturday, June 20⏰2-3 PMExperience the landscapes of Greenlaw Cove on Deer Isle, M...
06/17/2026

GALLERY TALK! Where Water Keeps Time
🗓️Saturday, June 20
⏰2-3 PM

Experience the landscapes of Greenlaw Cove on Deer Isle, Maine through immersive graphite drawings by artist and WETA “Around Town” panelist Janis Goodman. This gallery talk explores how years of close observation, evolving mark-making techniques, and an intimate connection to place transform marshes, water, granite, and shifting light into powerful meditations on memory, sensation, and time.

See you on Saturday!

🎤 GALLERY TALK • Saturday, June 20 • 2–3 pm"Working from [Greenlaw Cove] is like a meditation for me: repetitive, gr...
06/16/2026

🎤 GALLERY TALK • Saturday, June 20 • 2–3 pm

"Working from [Greenlaw Cove] is like a meditation for me: repetitive, grounded in the present, and capable of pushing back the demons of health challenges and life's vicissitudes."

For artist Janis Goodman, drawing is a way of marking time, slowing down, and experiencing the world more fully. "Where Water Keeps Time" invites viewers into a space of observation, solitude, wonder, and reflection—where the landscape becomes both subject and companion.

Join Janis and her curator Laura Coyle on June 20 at 2pm and learn more about her art and the inspiration behind her work.
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Janis Goodman, The World Above, 2025. Graphite on paper, 22 x 30 in. Collection of the Artist. Courtesy Gallery Neptune & Brown.

🎉Free and open to all—join us TONIGHT (6/13) from 6–9 pm for a first glimpse of our seven new exhibitions!Meet artists a...
06/13/2026

🎉Free and open to all—join us TONIGHT (6/13) from 6–9 pm for a first glimpse of our seven new exhibitions!

Meet artists and curators, mingle with fellow art lovers, and experience the museum after hours. There’s something special about engaging with art in the evening.

See you at the Museum! 🖼️🌙

✨ TOMORROW - Join us at our Summer ’26 Opening Reception!Enter a world of stillness where small-town America is rendered...
06/12/2026

✨ TOMORROW - Join us at our Summer ’26 Opening Reception!

Enter a world of stillness where small-town America is rendered with quiet precision through the work of Glen Echo artist A. Brockie Stevenson (1919-2009). White clapboard houses, fire stations, storefronts, and locomotives stand not as nostalgic emblems, but as enduring meditations on order, solitude, and care.

Working with disciplined geometry and flattened planes of color, his carefully calibrated compositions are situated within the lineage of American Realism alongside figures such as Charles Sheeler and Edward Hopper. For Stevenson, craft was a moral commitment. This exhibition of eleven paintings and eight silkscreens invite us to slow our gaze and contemplate his transformation of ordinary structures into timeless studies of light and silence.

🗓️ June 13 | ⏰ 6–9 pm

Get a first glimpse at seven new exhibitions and experience Stevenson’s work alongside six other exciting shows!

It's always a kick seeing the work go up. Here's "Where Water Meets Time" artist Janis Goodman having a "ta-da!" moment....
06/11/2026

It's always a kick seeing the work go up. Here's "Where Water Meets Time" artist Janis Goodman having a "ta-da!" moment.

We'll be ready for you Saturday night!

🌟 Summer '26 Opening Reception
📅 June 13
🕕 6–9 pm

Seven new exhibitions. Artists, curators, and a museum full of art lovers. See you there! ✨

We are THIS excited for our opening reception on Saturday! 🎉🎨 🎬Known for her photography across politics, music, and the...
06/11/2026

We are THIS excited for our opening reception on Saturday! 🎉🎨 🎬

Known for her photography across politics, music, and the arts, Bonnie Lautenberg creates a lively visual history lesson by pairing iconic works of art with film stills from the same year. As you move through the exhibition, you'll discover unexpected connections between artists and filmmakers, from René Magritte and Greta Garbo to Yayoi Kusama and Singin' in the Rain.

The result is a fascinating conversation across time, media, and culture—one that invites you to look closely, compare, and draw your own conclusions.

🍿AU Museum Summer '26 Opening Reception
📅 June 13 @ 6 -9pm
JOIN US!

⭐ GALLERY TALK ⭐On June 14 (🇺🇸 Flag Day), join artist/photographer Gail Rebhan, AU Museum director Jack Rasmussen and AU...
06/10/2026

⭐ GALLERY TALK ⭐

On June 14 (🇺🇸 Flag Day), join artist/photographer Gail Rebhan, AU Museum director Jack Rasmussen and AU history professor M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska as Rebhan explores how the language of the US Census reveals changing ideas about identity and belonging, while Rymsza-Pawlowska examines how Americans have commemorated, interpreted, and debated the nation’s history—including the approaching 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Layering historic census forms with American flag imagery and evolving government language, Rebhan’s installation at our entrance transforms data into a striking visual history of the United States.

🎤 Gallery Talk - What Questions Do We Ask?
📅 June 14 @ AU Museum
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Gail Rebhan, What Questions Do We Ask? Disability, 2024. Adhesive vinyl mounted on window, 26.4 x 39.6 inches; What Questions Do We Ask? Disability (detail), 2024. Adhesive vinyl mounted on window.

Explore a new dimension at the AU Museum’s Summer 26’ Opening Reception!Blending realism and surreal imagination, self-t...
06/09/2026

Explore a new dimension at the AU Museum’s Summer 26’ Opening Reception!

Blending realism and surreal imagination, self-taught artist Richard Dana’s exhibition, People, Places and Otherwise, opens portals into strange, yet familiar worlds shaped by curiosity, emotion, and the mysteries of human experience.

Using simple materials with remarkable range, Dana creates images that are visually rich and emotionally resonant. This exhibition brings together a wide-ranging selection of works in graphite, charcoal, and ink, spanning early to recent pieces.

Dana’s work moves fluidly between the recognizable and the surreal, suggesting parallel worlds that feel at once strange and familiar. The artist’s mediation on human condition, the natural world, science, and global cultures transforms observation and imagination into images that are both intricate and open-ended.

Rather than prescribe meaning, he invites his audience to engage, question, and find their own connections within these layered and evocative works.

📍AU Museum
📅 June 13 @ 6 p.m.

Richard Dana, From Above to Below (detail), 2002-2006. Charcoal, graphite and lace, 88 x 62 inches.

In Prima Vista—an Italian phrase meaning “at first sight”—artist and master printmaker Susan Goldman turns away from the...
06/09/2026

In Prima Vista—an Italian phrase meaning “at first sight”—artist and master printmaker Susan Goldman turns away from the visible world and toward inner vision. These works do not depict recognizable places or scenes; instead, like a flower dissolving into a horizon, images arise from an initial moment of awareness, before thought takes hold.

Working with large-scale prints on aluminum, she embraces translucency, layering, and reflection to create compositions with luminous color, fluid movement, and intuitive mark-making. Shapes and colors emerge through a process of looking, revising, and responding, guided by a physical and perceptual sensitivity to color.

Celebrate Susan Goldman’s first solo exhibition at AU Museum’s Summer 26’ Opening Reception!

📍AU Museum
📅 June 13 @ 6 p.m.
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Susan J. Goldman, Lever du Jour I, 2025. Print on aluminum, 6 feet 6 inches x 6 feet 6 inches. Courtesy of Lily Press®

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