Celebrate November with the Museum’s Día de los Muertos Festival, Artist Talks, Performances and More!

Join Us in the Galleries!

El Día de los Muertos Festival 
Thursday, Nov. 2 
Kogod Courtyard | 5 – 8 p.m.
G & 9th Street facade | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Free—Registration Encouraged.

Kinship: An Artist Talk with Anna Tsouhlarakis 
Saturday, Nov. 4
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Education Center, E151 
Free—Registration Required.

“Portrait of an Indigenous Womxn [Removed]” by Anna Tsouhlarakis 
Sunday, Nov. 5
1 – 3 p.m. 
Kogod Courtyard
Free—Registration Encouraged.

Emerging Artist Talk and Poetry Reading with Kinsale Drake
Monday, Nov. 6
4 p.m.
McEvoy Auditorium 
Free—Registration Recommended.

Art and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Crisis Panel
Monday, Nov. 6
5:30 p.m.
McEvoy Auditorium 
Free—Registration Recommended.

Gallery Talk: “Rebecca Gratz: Family, Friends, Faith, and Community” 
Thursday, November 9
3 – 4 p.m.  
G Street lobby 
Free—Registration Encouraged.

Forces of Nature: The Future of Environmentalism Panel 
Tuesday, Nov. 14
6 – 7 p.m. 
McEvoy Auditorium 
Free—Registration Required.

Writing Workshop Inspired by Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
Wednesday, Nov. 15
5 – 7 p.m. 
G Street Lobby
Free—Registration Required.

Echoes of Empire in Contemporary Art Gallery Discussion and Artmaking Experience
Thursday, Nov. 16
1:30 p.m. 
G Street Lobby
Free—Registration Required.

Conversation Circles 
Friday, Nov. 17 
10 – 11 a.m. 
G Street Lobby 
Free—No Registration Required.

Portrait Signs  
Saturday, Nov. 18 
Noon –1p.m. 
G Street Lobby
Free—Registration Required.

Trivia Night: Family Ties 
Tuesday, Nov. 28
5 – 6:45 p.m. 
Kogod Courtyard 
Free—Registration Encouraged.

Online Programs

Drawn to Figures 
Select Thursdays, Nov. 2 & 16 
11 a.m. – Noon
Online via Zoom
Free—Registration Required.

Virtual Portrait Signs 
Thursday, Nov. 2 
5 – 6p.m.
Online via Zoom
Free—Registration Required.

Conversation Circles 
Friday, Nov. 3 
10 – 11 a.m
Online via Zoom
Free—No Registration Required.

Virtual Writing Hour 
Select Tuesdays, Nov. 14 & 28 
5 – 6 p.m. 
Online via Zoom
Free—Registration Required.

Call for Entries

2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition: Call for Entries
Open now through Jan. 26, 2024

The National Portrait Gallery is accepting submissions for its seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Established in 2006, the competition invites artists to submit one portrait created in the past three years for consideration by a panel of experts. Selected artworks, including three prizewinners, are then featured in a museum exhibition. The competition focuses on broadening the definition of portraiture while highlighting the genre’s wider relevance to society and within the field of contemporary art. It aims to bring together works that attend to the country’s diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other conditions that shape a person’s individual and collective identities. To learn more and apply, please visit the competition website.

On View

Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
On view through September 2, 2024.

Explore our currentand upcoming exhibitions.

On View

PORTRAITS Podcast 
Season 5 of the museum's PORTRAITS podcast is now live! The first episode, “It Depends How You Frame It," features National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet in conversation with William Adair and Ruth Buentello on all things frames.

Google Arts & Culture Exhibition 
Uncover the life and legacy of Pocahontas by comparing and contrasting two portraits from our collection in “Who is Pocahontas?” Enjoy other virtual exhibitions inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s collection on Google Arts & Culture.