The Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA) is the Museum’s home of visual culture and innovation. Through changing exhibitions, public programs, and publications, CAAMA showcases the formation of African American history and culture through media arts, including photography, film, video, and audio recordings.
The CAAMA gallery is located on Level 2 of the Museum and shows rotating temporary media arts exhibitions.
Collection Highlights
CAAMA holds the largest collection of objects in the museum, including more than 25,000 photographs and time-based media such as film, video, and audio recordings.
Past Exhibitions
Public Programs
CAAMA hosts a variety of ongoing public programs celebrating and exploring African American media arts including screenings, the Cinema + Conversation film series, the Smithsonian African American Film Festival, and symposia.
Publications
![Front Cover of Vol. VI Everyday Beauty](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/slideshow/dex6-cover_2.jpg?itok=PxJ9A3Tz)
“Double Exposure” Series
Double Exposure, a multi-volume series based on the Museum's photography collection, explores inaugural exhibition themes. Each of the seven volumes features photographs, a foreword by Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch, III, and an essay by a topic specialist.
The CAAMA Collection
Search our collection of images, film, and audio.
The power of photographs is not only the ability to depict events, but to bring human scale to those experiences. Lonnie G. Bunch III Founding Director