Art in Embassies Program

by guest blogger Cindy Grisdela

Would you like to have your art shown in the U.S. Embassy in Paris or Moscow, Ankara or Budapest? It’s easier to do than you might imagine.

Since 1963, the U.S. State Department has run a program called Art in Embassies (AIE) that showcases the work of American artists from various media in exhibits all over the world. There are currently over 200 venues worldwide at U.S. consulates, chanceries and ambassadors’ residences. The aim is to share the diversity of American art with international audiences and cultivate relationships through a shared cultural experience.

“AIE’s exhibitions allow foreign citizens, many of whom might never travel to the United States, to personally experience the depth and breadth of our artistic heritage and values, making what has been called a footprint that can be left where people have no opportunity to see American art,” according a statement from Secretary of State John F. Kerry in the catalog for the exhibition in Indonesia that features one of my contemporary quilts.

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