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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560 Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, www.smithsonian.org.

Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the United States WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST (Chancellor) The Vice President of the United States DICK CHENEY Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST, PATRICK J. LEAHY Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT MATSUI, RALPH REGULA Citizen Members BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., ANNE D’HARNONCOURT, HANNA HOLBORN GRAY, MANUEL L. IBAN˜ EZ, WALTER MASSEY, ROGER SANT, ALAN G. SPOON, PATTY STONESIFER, WESLEY S. WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary LAWRENCE M. SMALL The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director of Development (VACANCY) Director, Office of Policy and Analysis CAROLE P. NEVES Executive Assistant to the Secretary and JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Smithsonian Institution Building and Arts and Industries Building Under Secretary for American Museums and SHEILA BURKE National Programs Director, Asian/Pacific-American Program FRANKLIN ODO

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Curator in Charge, Renwick Gallery KENNETH R. TRAPP Director of National Programs HERMA HIGHTOWER Director of Operations (VACANCY) Director, Anacostia Museum and Center STEVEN NEWSOME for African American History and Culture Director, Archives of American Art RICHARD WATTENMAKER Director, Arts and Industries Building JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural RICHARD KURIN Heritage Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design PAUL WARWICK THOMPSON Museum Director, National Air and Space Museum GEN. JOHN R. DAILEY Director, National Museum of American BRENT GLASS History Director, National Museum of the W. RICHARD WEST, JR. American Indian Director, National Portrait Gallery MARC PACHTER Director, National Postal Museum ALLEN KANE Director, Office of Communications/Public EVELYN LIEBERMAN Affairs Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Office of Government Relations NELL PAYNE Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Protocol Director, Smithsonian American Art ELIZABETH BROUN Museum Director, Smithsonian Center for STEPHANIE NORBY Education and Museum Studies Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino (VACANCY) Initiatives Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service (SITES) Director, Smithsonian Affiliations Program MICHAEL CARRIGAN Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Under Secretary for Science DAVID L. EVANS Director, Museum Support Center (VACANCY) Director, National Museum of Natural CHRISTIAN SAMPER History Director, National Science Resources (VACANCY) Center Director, National Zoological Park LUCY SPELMAN Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Center for Materials LAMBERTUS VAN ZELST Research and Education Director, Smithsonian Environmental ROSS SIMONS Research Center Director, Smithsonian Institution Press DON FEHR Director, Smithsonian Marine Station VALERIE PAUL Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute

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Under Secretary for Finance and (VACANCY) Administration Chief Technology Officer DENNIS SHAW Chief Financial Officer ALICE C. MARONI Comptroller CATHERYN HUMMEL Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources CAROLYN JONES Director, Office of International Relations FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries NANCY E. GWINN General Counsel JOHN E. HUERTA Ombudsman CHANDRA HEILMAN Director of Facilities Engineering WILLIAM W. BRUBAKER Director, International Art Museums Division THOMAS LENTZ Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur JULIAN RABY M. Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and NED RIFKIN Sculpture Garden Director, National Museum of African Art SHARON PATTON Chief Executive Officer of Smithsonian GARY BEER Business Ventures Editor, Smithsonian Magazine CAREY WINFREY Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine AMY P. WILKINS Senior Business Officer ROLAND BANSCHER, Acting The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman JAMES A. JOHNSON President MICHAEL M. KAISER National Gallery of Art 1 President ROBERT H. SMITH Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director LEE H. HAMILTON Deputy Director MICHAEL H. VAN DUSEN Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH A. CARI, JR.

The Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States which comprises the world’s largest museum and research complex. The Smithsonian includes 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of Panama. It holds more than 143 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Smithsonian is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, history, and culture.

The Smithsonian Institution was created bequeathed his entire estate to the by an act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. United States ‘‘to found at Washington, 41 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the under the name of the Smithsonian will of British scientist James Smithson Institution, an establishment for the (1765–1829), who in 1826 had increase and diffusion of knowledge

1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees.

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among men.’’ On July 1, 1836, Congress Archives of American Art The Archives accepted the legacy and pledged the contains the Nation’s largest collection faith of the United States to the of documentary materials reflecting the charitable trust. history of visual arts in the United States. In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, On the subject of art in America, it is the which amounted to more than 100,000 largest archives in the world, holding gold sovereigns, was delivered to the more than 13 million documents. The mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested Archives gathers, preserves, and responsibility for administering the trust microfilms the papers of artists, in the Secretary of the Smithsonian and craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and the Smithsonian Board of Regents, art societies. These papers include composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, President, three Members of the Senate, sketchbooks, business records, clippings, three Members of the House of exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape- Representatives, and nine citizen recorded interviews, and photographs of members appointed by joint resolution artists and their work. The Archives are of Congress. To carry out Smithson’s housed at 750 9th Street NW., in mandate, the Institution executes the Washington, DC. following functions: —conducts scientific and scholarly For further information, contact the Archives of research; American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, —publishes the results of studies, DC 20560. Phone, 202–275–2156. Internet, http:// archivesofamericanart.si.edu/askus.htm. explorations, and investigations; —preserves for study and reference Cooper-Hewitt National Design more than 143 million artifacts, works of Museum The Museum is the only art, and scientific specimens; museum in the country devoted —organizes exhibits representative of exclusively to historical and the arts, the sciences, and American contemporary design. Collections history and culture; include objects in such areas as applied —shares Smithsonian resources and arts and industrial design, drawings and collections with communities throughout prints, glass, metalwork, wallcoverings, the Nation; and and textiles. Changing exhibits and —engages in educational public programs seek to educate by programming and national and exploring the role of design in daily life. international cooperative research. Smithsonian activities are supported The Museum is open daily except by its trust endowments and revenues; Mondays and holidays. An admission fee gifts, grants, and contracts; and funds of $8 is charged. appropriated to it by Congress. For further information, contact Cooper-Hewitt Admission to the museums in National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, Washington, DC, is free. New York, NY 10128. Phone, 212–849–8400. Internet, www.si.edu/ndm. Activities Freer Gallery of Art The building, the Anacostia Museum and Center for original collection, and an endowment African American History and Culture were the gift of Charles Lang Freer The Museum, located in the historic Fort (1854–1919). The Gallery houses one of Stanton neighborhood of southeast the world’s most renowned collections Washington, serves as a national of Asian art, an important group of resource for exhibitions, historical ancient Egyptian glass, early Christian documentation, and interpretive and manuscripts, and works by 19th and educational programs relating to African- early 20th century American artists. The American history and culture. objects in the Asian collection represent the arts of East Asia, the Near East, and For further information, contact the Anacostia Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC South and Southeast Asia, including 20020. Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, paintings, manuscripts, scrolls, screens, www.si.edu/anacostia. ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade,

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lacquer, and sculpture. Members of the Trek.’’ The Museum’s IMAX Theater and staff conduct research on objects in the the 70-foot domed Einstein Planetarium collection and publish results in are popular attractions. The Museum’s scholarly journals and books for general Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is being and scholarly audiences. built at Washington Dulles International For further information, contact the Freer Gallery Airport and is scheduled to open in of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., December 2003, in time for the Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. centennial of the Wright brothers’ flight. Internet, www.asia.si.edu. Featured artifacts will include a space Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture shuttle and the B–29 Enola Gay. Garden From cubism to minimalism, the For further information, contact the National Air Museum houses major collections of and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence modern and contemporary art. The Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– nucleus of the collection is the gift and 357–2700. Internet, www.nasm.si.edu. bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– National Museum of African Art This 1981). Supplementing the permanent is the only art museum in the United collection are loan exhibitions. The States dedicated exclusively to portraying Museum houses a collection research the creative visual traditions of Africa. Its facility, a specialized art library, and a research components, collection, photographic archive, available for exhibitions, and public programs consultation by prior appointment. The establish the Museum as a primary outdoor sculpture garden is located source for the examination and nearby on the National Mall. There is an discovery of the arts and culture of active program of public service and Africa. The collection includes works in education, including docent tours, wood, metal, fired clay, ivory, and fiber. lectures on contemporary art and artists, The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives and films of historic and artistic interest. includes slides, photos, and film For further information, contact the Hirshhorn segments on Africa. There is also a Museum and Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and specialized library. Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, For further information, contact the National www.hirshhorn.si.edu. Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– National Air and Space Museum 2700. Internet, www.nmafa.si.edu. Created to memorialize the development and achievements of aviation and space Smithsonian American Art Museum flight, the Museum collects, displays, The Museum’s art collection spans and preserves aeronautical and space centuries of American painting, flight artifacts of historical significance as sculpture, folk art, photography, and well as documentary and artistic graphic art. A major center for research materials related to air and space. in American art, the Museum has Among its artifacts are full-size planes, contributed to such resources as the models, and instruments. Highlights of Inventory of American Paintings the collection include the Wright Executed Before 1914; the Smithsonian brothers’ Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit Art Index; and the Inventory of American of St. Louis, a Moon rock, and Apollo Sculpture. The library, shared with the spacecraft. The exhibitions and study National Portrait Gallery, contains collections record human conquest of volumes on art, history, and biography, the air from its beginnings to recent with special emphasis on the United achievements. The principal areas in States. The Old Patent Office Building, which work is concentrated include home to both the Smithsonian American flight craft of all types, space flight Art Museum and the National Portrait vehicles, and propulsion systems. Recent Gallery, is currently closed for major blockbuster exhibitions at this most renovation, during which time the popular museum have included ‘‘Star museums are sponsoring traveling Wars: The Magic of Myth’’ and ‘‘Star exhibits around the country. Hundreds of

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images from the collection and extensive American icons are highlights of the information on its collections, collection. publications, and activities are available For further information, contact the National electronically (Internet, Museum of American History, Fourteenth Street www.saam.si.edu). and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, For further information, contact the Smithsonian www.americanhistory.si.edu. American Art Museum, Eighth and G Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. National Museum of the American Internet, www.americanart.si.edu. Indian The Museum was established in 1989, and the last of three locations is Renwick Gallery The Gallery is now being built. The collection of the dedicated to exhibiting crafts of all Museum is comprised of the collection periods and to collecting 20th century of the former Museum of the American American crafts. It offers changing Indian, Heye Foundation in New York exhibitions of American crafts and City. It is an institution of living cultures decorative arts, both historical and dedicated to the collection, preservation, contemporary, and a rotating selection study, and exhibition of the life, from its permanent collection. The languages, literature, history, and arts of Gallery’s grand salon is elegantly the Native peoples of the Americas. furnished in the Victorian style of the Highlights include Northwest Coast 1860’s and 1870’s. carvings; dance masks; pottery and weaving from the Southwest; painted For further information, contact the Renwick hides and garments from the North Gallery, Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania American Plains; goldwork of the Aztecs, Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 357–2700. Internet, www.saam.si.edu/collections/ Incas, and Maya; and Amazonian exhibits/renwick25. featherwork. For further information, contact the National National Museum of American History Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7102, 470 In pursuit of its fundamental mission to L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, inspire a broader understanding of the 202–357–2700. Internet, www.nmai.si.edu. United States and its people, the National Museum of Natural History Museum provides learning opportunities, Dedicated to understanding the natural stimulates the imagination of visitors, world and the place of humans in it, the and presents challenging ideas about the Museum’s permanent exhibits focus on Nation’s past. The Museum’s exhibits human cultures, Earth sciences, biology, provide a unique view of the American and anthropology, with the most popular experience. Emphasis is placed upon displays featuring gemstones such as the innovative individuals representing a Hope diamond, dinosaurs, insects, wide range of cultures, who have shaped marine ecosystems, birds, and mammals. our heritage, and upon science and the To celebrate the millennial anniversary remaking of our world through of the journey of Leif Ericson to America, technology. Exhibits draw upon strong the Museum mounted a special collections in the sciences and exhibition titled Vikings: The North engineering, agriculture, manufacturing, Atlantic Saga; the exhibition is now transportation, political memorabilia, traveling around the Nation. A new costumes, musical instruments, coins, IMAX theater offers large-format nature Armed Forces history, photography, films. The Museum’s encyclopedic collections comprise more than 125 computers, ceramics, and glass. Classic million specimens, making the Museum cars, icons of the American Presidency, one of the world’s foremost facilities for First Ladies’ gowns, musical instruments, natural history research. The museum’s the Star-Spangled Banner flag, Whitney’s four departments are anthropology, cotton gin, Morse’s telegraph, the John mineral sciences, paleobiology, and Bull locomotive, Dorothy’s ruby slippers systematic biology. Doctorate-level staff from ‘‘The Wizard of Oz,’’ and other researchers ensure the continued growth

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and value of the collection by well as displays of the Museum’s conducting studies in the field and priceless stamp collection. Highlights laboratory. include three mail planes, a replica of a For further information, contact the National railway mail car, displays of historic Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and letters, handcrafted mail boxes, and rare Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. U.S. and foreign issue stamps and Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, www.mnh.si.edu. covers. National Portrait Gallery The Gallery For further information, contact the National Postal was established in 1962 for the Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, exhibition and study of portraiture DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Internet, depicting men and women who have www.si.edu/postal. made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the National Zoological Park The National United States. The Gallery contains Zoo encompasses 163 acres along Rock nearly 18,000 works, including Creek Park in Northwest Washington, photographs and glass negatives. The DC. Established in 1889, the Zoo is first floor of the Gallery is devoted to developing into a biopark with live changing exhibitions from the Gallery’s animals, botanic gardens and aquaria, collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and artworks with animal themes. The photographs, and drawings as well as to collection today has animals ranging in special portrait collections. On the size and diversity from leaf-cutter ants to second floor are featured the permanent giraffes. The zoo also has acquired a collection of portraits of eminent new pair of young giant pandas, Mei Americans and the Hall of Presidents, Xiang and Tian Tian. Recent exhibits including the famous Gilbert Stuart include ‘‘Amazonia,’’ a simulated portrait-from-life of George Washington. tropical rain forest; the ‘‘Pollinarium’’ The two-story American Victorian exhibit; and the Reptile Discovery Renaissance Great Hall on the third floor Center, featuring the world’s largest of the gallery houses a Civil War exhibit, lizards, Komodo dragons. Research on and is used for special events and public genetics, animal behavior, and programs. A large library is shared with reproductive studies has given the the Smithsonian American Art Museum National Zoo a leadership role among and the Archives of American Art. The education department offers public the Nation’s conservation institutions. programs; outreach programs for For further information, contact the National Zoo, schools, senior adults, hospitals, and 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC nursing homes; and walk-in and group 20008. Phone, 202–673–4717. Internet, tours. The Gallery is currently closed for www.si.edu/natzoo. renovation. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage For further information, contact the National The Center is responsible for research, Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., documentation, and presentation of Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. grassroots cultural traditions. It maintains Internet, www.npg.si.edu. a documentary collection and produces National Postal Museum The Museum Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, houses the Nation’s postal history and educational materials, documentary philatelic collection, the largest of its films, publications, and traveling kind in the world, with more than 13 exhibits, as well as the annual million objects. The Museum is devoted Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the to the history of America’s mail service, National Mall. Recent Folklife Festivals and major galleries include exhibits on have featured a range of American music mail service in Colonial times and styles, a number of State tributes, and during the Civil War, the Pony Express, performers from around the world. modern mail service, automation, mail Admission to the festival is free. The 2- transportation, and the art of letters, as

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week program includes Fourth of July acquires, preserves, and makes available activities on the National Mall. for research the official records of the For further information, contact the Center for Smithsonian Institution and the papers of Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Suite 4100, 750 9th individuals and organizations associated Street NW, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– with the Institution or with its work. 357–2700. Internet, www.folklife.si.edu. These holdings document the growth of International Center The International the Smithsonian and the development of Center supports Smithsonian activities American science, history, and art. abroad and serves as liaison for the For further information, contact the Smithsonian Smithsonian’s international interests. The Institution Archives, MRC 414, 900 Jefferson Drive Smithsonian seeks to encourage a SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– broadening of public understanding of 1420. the histories, cultures, and natural Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory environments of regions throughout the The Smithsonian Astrophysical world. The International Center provides Observatory and the Harvard College a meeting place and an organizational Observatory have coordinated research channel to bring together the world’s activities under a single director in a scholars, museum professionals, and the cooperative venture, Harvard- general public, to attend and participate Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The in conferences, public forums, lectures, Center’s research activities are organized and workshops. in the following areas of study: atomic For further information, contact the Office of and molecular physics, radio and International Relations, MRC 705, 1100 Jefferson geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 357–1539. optical and infrared astronomy, planetary sciences, solar and stellar physics, and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This Asian theoretical astrophysics. Research results art museum opened in 1987 on the are published in the Center Preprint National Mall. Changing exhibitions Series and other technical and drawn from major collections in the nontechnical bulletins, and distributed to United States and abroad, as well as scientific and educational institutions from the permanent holdings of the around the world. Sackler Gallery, are displayed in the distinctive below-ground museum. The For more information, contact the Smithsonian Gallery’s growing permanent collection Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. is founded on a group of art objects from Internet, cfa-www.harvard.edu/sao-home.html. China, South and Southeast Asia, and the ancient Near East that was given to Smithsonian Center for Materials the Smithsonian by Arthur M. Sackler Research and Education The Center (1913–1987). The Museum’s current researches preservation, conservation, collection features Persian manuscripts; and technical study and analysis of Japanese paintings; ceramics, prints, and collection materials. Its researchers textiles; sculptures from India; and investigate the chemical and physical paintings and metalware from China, processes that are involved in the care of Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The art, artifacts, and specimens, and attempt Sackler Gallery is connected by an to formulate conditions and procedures underground exhibition space to the for storage, exhibit, and stabilization that neighboring Freer Gallery. optimize the preservation of these For further information, contact the Arthur M. objects. In interdisciplinary Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., collaborations with archeologists, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. anthropologists, and art historians, Internet, www.asia.si.edu. natural and physical scientists study and Smithsonian Institution Archives The analyze objects from the collections and Smithsonian Institution Archives related materials to expand knowledge

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and understanding of their historical and art laboratory where Station scientists scientific context. catalog species and study marine plants For further information, contact the Smithsonian and animals. Among the most important Center for Materials Research and Education, projects being pursued at the site is the Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD 20746. search for possible causes of fish kills Phone, 301–238–3700. including pfiesteria and other organisms.

Smithsonian Environmental Research For further information, contact the Smithsonian Center (SERC) The Center is the Marine Station, 701 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce, FL leading national research center for 34946. Phone, 772–465–6632. Internet, understanding environmental issues in www.sms.si.edu. the coastal zone. SERC is dedicated to Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute increasing knowledge of the biological (STRI) The Institute is a research and physical processes that sustain life organization for advanced studies of on Earth. The Center, located near the tropical ecosystems. Headquartered in Chesapeake Bay, trains future generations of scientists to address the Republic of Panama, STRI maintains ecological questions of the Nation and extensive facilities in the Western the globe. Hemisphere tropics. It is the base of a corps of tropical researchers who study For further information, contact the Smithsonian the evolution, behavior, ecology, and Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 443–482– history of tropical species of systems 2205. Internet, www.serc.si.edu. ranging from coral reefs to rain forests. Smithsonian Institution Libraries The For further information, contact the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Libraries include Tropical Research Institute, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., MRC 555, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, more than one million volumes (among 202–786–2817. Phone (Panama), 011–507–212– them 40,000 rare books) with strengths 8000. Internet, www.stri.org. in natural history, art, science, humanities, and museology. Many The John F. Kennedy Center for the volumes are available through Performing Arts The Center is the only interlibrary loan. official memorial in Washington, DC, to President Kennedy. Since its opening in For further information, contact the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution 1971, the Center has presented a year- Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– round program of the finest in music, 357–2240. Internet, www.sil.si.edu. E-mail, dance, and drama from the United States [email protected]. and abroad. The Kennedy Center box Smithsonian Institution Traveling offices are open daily, and general Exhibition Service (SITES) Since 1952, information and tickets may be obtained SITES has been committed to making by calling 202–467–4600 or 202–416– Smithsonian exhibitions available to 8524 (TDD). Full-time students, senior millions of people who cannot view citizens over the age of 65, enlisted them firsthand at the Smithsonian personnel of grade E–4 and below, fixed museums. Exhibitions on art, history, and low-income groups, and the disabled science (including such exhibits as ‘‘Full may purchase tickets for most Deck Art Quilts,’’ ‘‘Red, Hot, and Blue: performances at a 50-percent discount A Salute to American Musicals,’’ and through the Specially Priced Ticket ‘‘Hubble Space Telescope’’) travel to Program. This program is designed to more than 250 locations each year. make the Center accessible to all, For further information, contact the Smithsonian regardless of economic circumstance. Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, MRC 706, Visitor services are provided by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Friends of the Kennedy Center Phone, 202–357–3168. Internet, www.si.edu/ volunteers. Tours are available free of organiza/offices/sites. charge between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Smithsonian Marine Station The weekdays and between 10 a.m. and 1 research institute features a state-of-the- p.m. on weekends. Free performances

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are given every day at 6 p.m. on the institution of advanced study that Millennium Stage in the Grand Foyer. promotes scholarship in public affairs. For further information, contact the Kennedy The Center convenes scholars and Center. Phone, 202–467–4600. Internet, policymakers, buisnesspeople and www.kennedy-center.org. journalists in a neutral forum for open, serious, and informed dialogue. The National Gallery of Art The Gallery Center supports research in social houses one of the finest collections in sciences and humanities, with an the world, illustrating Western man’s emphasis on history, political science, achievements in painting, sculpture, and and international relations. the graphic arts. The collections, beginning with the 13th century, are rich For further information, contact the Scholar Selection and Services Office, Woodrow Wilson in European old master paintings and Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 French, Spanish, Italian, American, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004– British 18th- and 19th-century paintings; 3027. Phone, 202–691–4170. Fax, 202–691–4001. sculpture from the late Middle Ages to Internet, www.wilsoncenter.org. the present; Renaissance medals and bronzes; Chinese porcelains; and about Sources of Information 90,000 works of graphic art from the Smithsonian Institution 12th to the 20th centuries. The Gallery represents a partnership of Federal and Contracts and Small Business Activities private resources. Its operations and Information regarding procurement of maintenance are supported through supplies, property management and Federal appropriations, and all of its utilization services for Smithsonian acquisitions of works of art, as well as Institution organizations, and contracts numerous special programs, are made for construction, services, etc., may be possible through private donations and obtained from the Director, Office of funds. Graduate and postgraduate Contracting, Smithsonian Institution, research is conducted under a fellowship Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– program; programs for schoolchildren 275–1600. and the general public are conducted Education and Research Write to the daily; and an extension service Directors of the following offices at the distributes loans of audiovisual materials, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC including films, slide lectures, and slide 20560: Office of Fellowships and Grants, sets throughout the world. Publications, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, slides, and reproductions may be National Science Resources Center; and obtained through the Publications Smithsonian Center for Education and Service. The Micro Gallery is the most Museum Studies. comprehensive interactive multimedia Electronic Access Information about computer system in any American art the Smithsonian Institution is available museum. Thirteen computers enable electronically through the Internet, at visitors to see in magnified detail nearly www.si.edu or www.smithsonian.org. every work of art on display in the Employment Employment information permanent collection and provide access for the Smithsonian is available from the to information about artists, geographic Office of Human Resources, Smithsonian areas, time periods, pronunciations (with Institution, Suite 6100, 750 Ninth Street sound), and more. NW, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–275–1102. Recorded message, 202– For further information, contact the National 287–3102. Gallery of Art. Phone, 202–737–4215. TTY, 202– 842–6176. Internet, www.nga.gov. Media Affairs Members of the press may contact the Smithsonian Office of Woodrow Wilson International Center Public Affairs, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., for Scholars The Center was Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– established by Congress in 1968 as the 357–2627. Internet, newsdesk.si.edu. Nation’s official memorial to its 28th Memberships For information about President. The Center is a nonpartisan Smithsonian membership (Resident

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Program), write to The Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Research Associates, MRC 701, 1100 Jefferson Reports, containing news of current Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. research projects in the arts, sciences, Phone, 202–357–3030. For information and history that are being conducted by about Smithsonian membership Smithsonian staff, is produced by the (National Program), call 202–357–4800. Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs, For information about the Contributing Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Membership, call 202–357–1699. For Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC information about the Young 20560. Phone, 202–357–2627. Benefactors, call 202–786–9049. To request a copy of Smithsonian Information about activities of the Runner, a newsletter about Native Friends of the National Zoo and their American-related activities at the magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by Smithsonian, contact the National writing to FONZ, National Zoological Museum of the American Indian, Park, Washington, DC 20008. Phone, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 202–673–4950. 20560. Phone, 800–242–NMAI. For the newsletter Art to Zoo for Photographs Color and black-and- teachers of fourth through eighth graders, white photographs and slides are write to the Smithsonian Center for available to Government agencies, Education and Museum Studies, Room research and educational institutions, 1163, MRC 402, Arts and Industries publishers, and the general public from Building, Washington, DC 20560. the Smithsonian photographic archives. Phone, 202–357–2425. A searchable database of images is Telephone Dial-A-Museum, 202–357– available through the Internet. 2020 provides a taped message with Information, order forms, and price lists daily announcements on new exhibits may be obtained from the Office of and special events. Smithsonian Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Skywatchers Report, 202–357–2000 is a Services, MAH CB–054, Smithsonian taped message with weekly Institution, Washington, DC 20560. announcements on stars, planets, and Internet, photos.si.edu. E-mail, worldwide occurrences of short-lived [email protected]. natural phenomena. For a Spanish Publications To purchase the Listing of Smithsonian Events, call 202– Smithsonian Institution’s annual report, 633–9126. Smithsonian Year, call 202–357–2627. Tours For information about museum The Smithsonian Institution Press and gallery tours, contact the publishes a range of books and studies Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 related to the sciences, technology, Jefferson Drive, SW., Washington, DC history, culture, air and space, and the 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. School arts. A book catalog is available from groups are welcome. Special behind-the- Publications Sales, Smithsonian Books or scenes tours are offered through the Smithsonian Institution University Press, various memberships. 1111 North Capitol Street, Washington, Visitor Information The Smithsonian DC 20002. Phone, 800–782–4612. To Information Center, located in the purchase a recording of the Smithsonian original Smithsonian building, commonly Folkways Recordings, call 800–410– known as ‘‘The Castle,’’ provides general 9815. Internet, www.si.edu/folkways. orientation, through films, computer A free brochure providing a brief interactive programs, and visitor guide to the Smithsonian Institution is information specialists, to help members published in English and several foreign and the public learn about the national languages. For a copy, call Visitor collections, museum events, exhibitions, Information, 202–357–2700, or pick up and special programs. Write to the a copy at the information desks in the Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 museums. A visitor’s guide for Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC individuals with disabilities is also 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. TTY, available. 202–357–1729.

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Volunteer Service Opportunities The opportunities at the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution welcomes write to Friends of the Kennedy Center, volunteers and offers a variety of Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– interesting service opportunities. For 416–8000. information, write to the Visitor Information and Associates’ Reception National Gallery of Art Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Calendar of Events To access on the Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Web, go to www.nga.gov/ginfo/ 357–2700. TTY, 202–357–1729. geninfo.htm. To receive E-mail notices when new calendars go online, send John F. Kennedy Center for the your name, street address, and E-mail Performing Arts address to [email protected]. Contracts and Small Business Activities Contracts and Small Business Activities Contact the John F. Kennedy Center for Contact National Gallery of Art, Ofice of the Performing Arts, Washington, DC Procurement and Contracts, 2000B 20566. South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785. Education and Research For Phone, 202–842–6745. information regarding Kennedy Center Education and Research For education programs, contact the John F. information about National Gallery Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, internship programs, contact the Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– Department of Academic Programs, 416–8000. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Electronic Access Information on the 20565. Phone, 202–842–6257. Fax, John F. Kennedy Center for the 202–842–6733. For information about Performing Arts is available through the research fellowship programs, contact Internet, at www.kennedy-center.org. the Center for Advanced Study in the Employment For information on Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, employment opportunities at the John F. Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 842–6482. Fax, 202–842–6733. contact the Human Resources Educational Resources The National Department, Washington, DC 20566. Gallery of Art circulates slide programs, Phone, 202–416–8610. teaching packets, videos, CD-ROMs, Memberships Information about the videodiscs, and DVDs at no charge to national and local activities of Friends of individuals, schools and civic the Kennedy Center (including the organizations throughout the country. bimonthly Kennedy Center News for Contact the Department of Education members) is available at the information Resources, National Gallery of Art, desks within the Center or by writing to 2000B South Club Drive, Landover, MD Friends of the Kennedy Center, 20785. Phone, 202–842–6273. Internet, Washington, DC 20566. www.nga.gov/education/ep-main.htm. Special Functions Inquiries regarding Please write or e-mail the use of Kennedy Center facilities for [email protected] to request a free special functions may be directed to the catalog of programs. Office of Special Events, John F. Electronic Access Information on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Gallery of Art is available Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– through the Internet, at www.nga.gov. 416–8000. NGAkids (www.nga.gov/kids) includes Theater Operations Inquiries regarding eight interactive adventures with works the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters of art in the Gallery’s collection and an may be addressed to the Booking animated tale set in the Gallery’s Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for Sculpture Garden. the Performing Arts, Washington, DC Employment For information on 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. employment opportunities at the Volunteer Service Opportunities For National Gallery, contact the Personnel information about volunteer Office, National Gallery of Art, 601

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Pennsylvania Avenue South NW., 2nd Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Floor, Washington, DC 20004. Phone, 842–6246 or 202–842–6179. 202–842–6282. TDD, 202–842–6176. Visitor Services The Visitor Services Library The Gallery’s collection of Office of the National Gallery of Art more than 250,000 books and provides individual assistance to those periodicals on the history, theory, and with special needs, responds to written criticism of art and architecture and telephone requests, and provides empahsizes Western art from the Middle information to those planning to visit the Ages to the present, and American art Washington, DC, area. For more from the Colonial era to the present. information, write to the National Adult researchers may gain access to the Gallery of Art, Office of Visitor Services, library by calling 202–842–6511. The Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– library is closed Saturdays, Sundays, and 842–6691. all Federal holidays. Volunteer Opportunities For Memberships The Circle of the information about volunteering at the National Gallery of Art is a membership National Gallery of Art, write the program which provides support for Education Division, National Gallery of special projects for which Federal funds Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, are not available. For more information 202–842–6247. TDD, 202–842–6176. about membership in the Circle of the For library volunteering inquiries, call National Gallery of Art, please write to 202–842–6510. The Circle, National Gallery of Art, Works on Paper Works of art on paper Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– that are not on view may be seen by 842–6450. appointment on weekdays; call 202– Publications The National Gallery shop 842–6380. The Matisse cutouts are on makes available quality reproductions view in the Tower from 10:00 a.m. to and publications about the Gallery’s 2:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, collections. To order, call 202–842– and from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on 6002. Selected items are also available Sunday. for sale on the Web site at www.nga.gov. The Office of Press and Woodrow Wilson Center for Public Affairs offers a free bimonthly International Scholars calendar of events, which can be Electronic Access Information on the ordered by calling 202–842–6662, or Woodrow Wilson Center for through E-mail at [email protected]. The International Scholars is available calendar and Brief Guide to the National through the Internet, at Gallery of Art are also available at art www.wilsoncenter.org. information desks throughout the Gallery Employment For information on or by calling Visitor Services at 202– employment opportunities at the 842–6691. Woodrow Wilson Center, contact the Radio A three-minute program, ‘‘This Office of Human Resources, One Week at the National Gallery,’’ airs Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Sundays at 11:00 a.m. on WGMS, 103.5 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, FM, Washington, and Saturday at 1:24 DC 2004–3027. Internet, p.m. on WBJC, 91.5 FM, Baltimore. It www.wilsoncenter.org/hr/index.htm features interviews with art experts, Fellowships and Internships The artists, and museum specialists about Woodrow Wilson Center offers exhibitions, the permanent collection, residential fellowships that allow and various Gallery activities. academics, public officials, journalists, Tours The Education Division of the business professionals, and others to National Gallery of Art offers gallery pursue their research and writing at the talks and lectures. For further Center, while interacting with information, contact the Education policymakers in Washington. The Center Division, National Gallery of Art, Fourth also invites public policy scholars and Street and Constitution Avenue NW., senior scholars from a variety of

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disciplines to conduct research for and visiting scholars and fellows, varying lengths of time in residence. For through the Wilson Center Press. It also more information, call 202–691–4213. produces Dialogue, a weekly radio and The Center also has a year-round need television program about national and for interns to assist the program and international affairs, history, and culture. projects staff and to act as research For more information, call 202–691– assistants for scholars and fellows. For 4016. more information, call 202–691–4053. Visitor Services To hear a listing of Media Affairs Members of the press events at the Woodrow Wilson Center, may contact the Woodrow Wilson call 202–691–4188. All events, unless Center at 202–691–4016. Publications The Woodrow Wilson otherwise noted, are free and open to Center publishes a monthly newsletter the public. Please note that a photo Centerpoint, and books written by staff identification is required for entry.

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