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Report to the Regents Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2011 Broadening Access: Visitation Summary Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet, will be accepted into the National Air and Space Museum collection upon arrival at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in the spring of 2012. Report to the Regents Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2011 Broadening Access: Visitation Summary Through the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, the Institution counted about 21million visits to its museums in Washington, D.C. and New York, plus the National Zoological Park and Steven F. Udvar- Hazy Center—similar to the figure for this period in fiscal year 2010. Of note were increases in visitation at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City (up 62 percent) and the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (up 25 percent). The Smithsonian also counted: • Approximately 4.5 million visits to traveling exhibitions mounted by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; and • About 90 million visits to Smithsonian websites. Visits to Smithsonian Venues First Three Quarters, Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011 6 5 4 Millions 3 FY 2009 FY 2010 2 FY 2011 1 0 Hazy - Postal SI Castle Renwick Anacostia Hirshhorn African Art Udvar Hewitt (NY) - National Zoo Air and Space Ripley Center Freer/Sackler Natural History American Indian Reynolds Center Heye Center (NY) American History Cooper Report to the Regents, September 2011 1 Grand Challenges Highlights Valuing World Cultures Secretary G. Wayne Clough, Under Secretary Richard Kurin, and Director of the National Museum of African Art Johnnetta Cole joined Rachel Goslins, Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and Eryl Wentworth, Director of the American Institute for Conservation, on a visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti on June 21–22. The team reviewed the Smithsonian’s conservation work in the earthquake-ravaged country and met with Haitian officials, U.S. embassy staff, heads of cultural organizations, and Haiti Cultural Recovery Project personnel. Research Smithsonian leaders visited Haiti The Freer and Sackler Galleries hosted a scholarly symposium on the “Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period” in conjunction with the Sackler exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan. It was the first international symposium devoted to this topic. The National Museum of the American Indian held two scholarly symposia: • “Where Art Worlds Meet: A Conversation with Indigenous Hawaiian, Native American, and Aboriginal Contemporary Artists” focused on the evolution of the global indigenous art scene. • “Essentially Indigenous?” at the Museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York investigated the attributes of Native artists’ work that make it “Native.” Papers presented at the November 2010 Anacostia Community Museum symposium “Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: the Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner” were published in a special spring 2011 issue of The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research. Broadening Access The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage hosted another successful Smithsonian Folklife Festival, with programs highlighting Colombia, the Peace Corps, and rhythm and blues. For 10 days, more than 280 artists and artisans shared their talents with an estimated 1,083,000 visitors—the highest Festival attendance since 2002. Two new exhibitions opened at the Sackler Gallery: • Waves at Matsushima (May 29–July 5, 2011) featured screens and prints depicting the beauty of the region hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. 2 Report to the Regents, September 2011 • Family Matters: Portraits from the Qing Court (June 11, 2011–November 16, 2012) includes 16 paintings of Qing dynasty emperors, empresses, princes, and princesses. A sneak preview of the National Museum of Natural History exhibition Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt went on display on April 5. The full exhibition opens on November 17; it focuses on the insights that mummies, burial rituals, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt Understanding the American Experience The Association of Art Museum Curators voted the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Hide/Seek the nation’s top thematic art museum exhibition in 2010. Family Matters: Portraits from the Qing Court Research The National Portrait Gallery, in association with the University of California Press and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, published Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, the companion volume to an upcoming Gallery exhibition on Stein. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with D Giles Ltd., London, published The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century, written by guest curator Claire Perry and with a foreword by Museum Director Elizabeth Broun, to accompany a Museum exhibition that opened in the fourth quarter. The Civil War: A Visual History, produced by the Smithsonian in association with DK Publishing, offers a definitive visual history of the conflict that tore the United States apart. The National Portrait Gallery’s Jim Barber and the National Museum of American History’s Harry Rubenstein served as editorial consultants. Broadening Access The Smithsonian celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May with a series of lectures, performances, and films. More than 500 people participated in the feature event, a family day celebration at the National Museum of American History. In April, the Smithsonian celebrated the 10th anniversary of Jazz Appreciation Month. To mark this milestone, Smithsonian Folkways launched a Jazz Education website featuring an interactive music mixer, a history of jazz timeline, an interactive jazz map, and a discussion board. The Month’s events at the National Museum of American History focused on the legacy of women in jazz. Report to the Regents, September 2011 Over the past five years, a $3.6 million grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art has enabled the Archives of American Art to process and create online finding aids for 138 collections, fully digitize 111 collections, and make 1.5 million digital files available online. Terra Foundation support will continue with a new $3.1 For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights million, five-year grant. The exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (June 10– November 27, 2011), organized by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, opened at the National Museum of American History. It examines the role media images played in the fight for racial equality. The National Portrait Gallery is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a series of seven exhibitions, including The Death of Ellsworth, which opened this quarter (April 29, 2011–March 18, 2012). Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth was the first Union officer to be killed in the Civil War. The exhibition Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier (April 13–June 15, 2011) in the International Gallery of the Ripley Center featured 60 photos of Lakota (Sioux) tribe members who visited New York City with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in 1898. It was produced by the National Museum of American History and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate. The National Postal Museum launched four online exhibitions that combine Elmer Ellsworth philately with history and culture: Thurgood Marshall: Celebrating One of America’s Greatest Civil Rights Pioneers; Celebrating People with Disabilities Through Stamps; Heroes on Stamps; and People and Places of the Pacific: 2011 Edition. Former U.S. Representative, Atlanta Mayor, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young joined Jack H. Watson, Jr., chair of the National Portrait Gallery’s Commission, to discuss Young’s role in the Civil Rights movement and to witness the unveiling of Young’s portrait in the Gallery’s Struggle for Justice exhibit. Two small exhibitions opened at the National Museum of American History: “So Much Need of Service”–The Diary of a Civil War National Portrait Gallery Director Martin Sullivan with • Civil Rights figure Andrew Young Nurse (April 22 –July 29, 2011) featured the diary of Civil War–era nurse Amanda Akin and related documents. • HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago (ongoing; opened June 3, 2011) looks at public health, scientific, and political responses in the early phase of a global pandemic. Report to the Regents, September 2011 Renowned musician, artist, and poet Patti Smith gave a performance at Sotheby’s in New York City to benefit the Archives of American Art, featuring readings from love letters in the Archives’ collections. Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe Research: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) During this quarter, CfA scientists’ research appeared in 146 peer-reviewed papers, as well Patti Smith as 221 non-peer-reviewed articles presented at meetings, conferences, or other venues. Among the scientific journals carrying CfA research results was the leading journal Nature, which had five citations. The Kepler spacecraft team, which includes 12 CfA astronomers, has announced the discovery of an astonishing 1,235 possible new extrasolar planets (planets orbiting stars other than our own sun). CfA astronomers, using a small, 1.2-meter survey radio telescope, The Kepler
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