Pairings: The Obama Portraits (Virtual)

Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative 45-minute conversation on the official Obama Portraits of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. These portraits belong in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collection of U.S. presidential portraits and are currently on tour across various American museums through May 2022, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago—June 18, 2021–Aug. 15, 2021; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York—Aug. 27, 2021–Oct. 24, 2021; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles—Nov. 7, 2021–Jan. 2, 2022; High Museum of Art, Atlanta—Jan. 14, 2022–March 13, 2022; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston—March 27, 2022–May 30, 2022.

Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles; lives/works: New York City) is an artist best known for representing contemporary Black and brown men and women within the genre of portrait paintings. Wiley’s stained-glass triptych Go recently opened to the…