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In the National Portrait Gallery hangs a portrait of every president of the United States. Elsa Miller was recently present for the latest addition, which was, strangely enough, the portrait of a fictional one.<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin Spacey as President Francis J. Underwood,\u201d a six-foot by six-foot painting by Jonathan Yeo, mimics, rather than depicts, history<\/a>. It portrays actor Kevin Spacey’s character from the television series \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d in somber tones and slightly distorted.<\/p>\n

Miller, a senior history<\/a> major at Eastern Mennonite University who is interning with the American Art and Portrait Gallery (AA\/PG) Library, attended the press conference that preceded the painting\u2019s unveiling.<\/p>\n

The event has been one of the highlights of her semester in Washington D.C. with the Washington Community Scholars\u2019 Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Elsa<\/a>
Elsa Miller with Abby Hershberger (left) during some down time at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center, a intentional community for students from Eastern Mennonite University and other universities who are spending the semester working in Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere was a panel held about the painting which involved the artist, a museum curator, and Kevin Spacey, who plays Underwood. It was great to hear about the portrait from these three different people who were involved in it in different ways, and why it was painted the way it was,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Miller applied for an internship with the AA\/PG Library because she likes \u201chistory, museums and libraries,\u201d she said. She\u2019s appreciated the opportunity to learn more about American art, which she says wasn\u2019t particularly an area of strength.<\/p>\n

Her inexperience has been the greatest challenge, she added, but also the greatest opportunity for growth.<\/p>\n

Miller spends her days inundated with art-related history \u2013 organizing files on American artists, answering reference questions, sorting books, shifting shelves and assisting patrons at the library.<\/p>\n

Her work supports the research of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and the Archives of American Art from a block away.<\/p>\n

She is surrounded by the resources of \u201c180,000 books, exhibition catalogs, catalogues raisonnes, serials and dissertations concentrated in the area of American art, history, and biography, with supportive materials on European art,\u201d according to the Smithsonian Libraries website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m still doing new things every day,\u201d Miller says. \u201cIt’s hard knowing that I’m going to mess up a lot, but it’s all part of the learning process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confluence of art, popular culture and history that she was special witness to has been an inspiration, she says, with the possibility of working in a library a \u201ctop choice\u201d as Miller considers her future.<\/p>\n

While Miller returns home in a few short weeks from her cross-cultural at WCSC, the painting of President Francis J. Underwood will remain until October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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