About this Blog

Face-to-Face is produced by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.  This blog is dedicated to art, history, and the telling of American lives.

Face-to-Face is written and produced by a collaborative team at NPG, including:

  • Warren Perry, Lead Writer
  • Benjamin Bloom and Deb Sisum, Managing Editors
  • Dru Dowdy, Editor

Other staff contributors include Bethany Bentley, Maggie Christman, Wendy Wick Reaves, Frank Goodyear III, Sid Hart, Amy Henderson, David Ward, Jim Barber, Bronwen Myers, Jobyl Boone, Lauren Johnson, Ian Cooke, Todd Gardner, Greg Kenyon, and Caitlin Swindell.


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Face-to-Face Portrait Talks

  • Each Thursday a curator or historian from NPG brings visitors face-to-face with a portrait by offering their insight into one individual.

    Thursdays, 6 to 6:30 p.m. at the museum

    Talks slated for this month