SmithsonianCampaign OCTOBER 2015 | VOL. 1 | NO. 2

YOUR IMPACT News from the Smithsonian Campaign SmithsonianCamp aign NEWS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN CAMPAIGN The IMPACT OF YOUR GIVING

CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS Barbara M. Barrett Sakurako D. Fisher David M. Rubenstein Alan G. Spoon

CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE Valerie Anders Stuart H. Bohart Peggy P. Burnet Jeffrey P. Cunard Harold R. Denton James F. Dicke II Steven K. Hamp Ralph D. Heath THE SMITHSONIAN CAMPAIGN is spurring our 19 museums, nine FOURTH CO-CHAIR Edward R. Hintz research centers and the National Zoo to spark discovery, tell America’s SAKURAKO FISHER Erin Kathryn Hogan story, inspire lifelong learning and reach people everywhere. We are In July, Sakurako Fisher joined Wendy Jeffers honored to share these stories of donors who are making an impact the leadership of the Smithsonian Bennie F. Johnson through their gifts and helping us reach the campaign’s $1.5 billion goal. Campaign as its fourth co-chair. Robert N. Johnson The San Francisco resident is a Gilbert H. Kinney REACH PEOPLE EVERYWHERE member and immediate past chair Todd Krasnow The Smithsonian’s Kickstarter campaign to Reboot the Suit captured the of the Smithsonian National Board, Angela Marriott nation’s imagination and raised the most funds ever for a museum on the which she joined in 2005. "The online crowdfunding platform. Launched in July, the campaign sought Augustus C. Miller Smithsonian is America's gift to $500,000 to conserve, digitize and display Neil Armstrong’s fragile Apollo 11 Paul Neely the world," Fisher says. "It creates moon landing suit, a prize of the National Air and Space Museum’s collection. John M. Nolan new knowledge and shares it Reboot the Suit touched off a frenzy of coast-to-coast coverage in print, globally. The campaign provides Ziad Ojakli broadcast and social media, and it inspired an outpouring of support from the Smithsonian with the resources Franklin Delano Raines thousands of donors. The campaign beat its goal in just five days and, by the to innovate and break new ground Marcos G. Ronquillo end of August, achieved an added, stretch goal to conserve Alan Shepard’s in art, history, science, culture Roger W. Sant spacesuit, the first worn byan American in space. Overall, Reboot the Suit and education, inspiring the next Nicholas F. Taubman raised $719,779 from 9,477 donors, the majority of them new to the generation of great thinkers." Her Randall L. Willis Smithsonian. Both suits will be featured in Destination Moon, an exhibition co-chairs are Barbara Barrett, opening in 2020. David Rubenstein and Alan Spoon. HONORARY COMMITTEE Honorary Chairs TELL AMERICA’S STORY President and Mrs. Robyn and Tony Coles share a passion for the National Museum of African American George W. Bush History and Culture, which they express by giving and by inspiring others to give. President Bill Clinton A member of the museum council, Dr. Coles says, “We saw a once-in-a-lifetime and former Secretary opportunity to donate and find other donors to tell the complex story of the African of State Hillary American experience. That story represents the arc of America; it highlights the worst Rodham Clinton and the best of us.” Mrs. Coles traces their passion to the couple’s personal history: Members “As African American youth growing up in Washington, D.C., some of our earliest memories of new worlds to explore came from the storytelling of the Smithsonian museums.” The Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell Renée Fleming SPARK DISCOVERY Mia Hamm Smithsonian volunteer Ann Bissell puts her commitment to saving species into action. She has helped care for the elephants at the National Zoological Park for Mellody Hobson over a decade and serves on the board of Friends of the National Zoo. She also put Ellsworth Kelly this commitment into her will, with a bequest for the zoo’s elephant program and Michael Krzyzewski the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s animal conservation research. Robert Langer “These scientists are brilliant and passionate, and my gift will help them continue Ralph Lauren their discoveries in areas like elephant health,” she says. Eva Longoria Captain James A. INSPIRE LIFELONG LEARNING Lovell, USN (Ret.) A grant from the Arcadia Fund, the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, George Lucas enables the Smithsonian to provide online access to the unpublished field books of past Smithsonian researchers who traveled the world, documenting flora, fauna and ecosystems. Yo-Yo Ma The journals span more than a century and contain observations of great value today Arnold Palmer to scientists and the public in understanding biodiversity loss. The grant allows the Dr. Condoleezza Rice Smithsonian Libraries, in partnership with the Smithsonian Archives and the National Cal Ripken, Jr. Museum of Natural History, to conserve, digitize and share 2,600 field books. Eric Schmidt Edward O. Wilson as of September 14, 2015 THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DONORS AMERICAN HISTORY We gratefully recognize National Museum BOARD OF ADVISORS of American History donors of $100,000 or more to the Smithsonian Campaign.

CHAIRMAN Clark Charitable Foundation | A. James Clark The Honorable Wallace H. Coulter Foundation | Sue Van Mars, Incorporated Nicholas Taubman Tom and Priscilla McMahan Patrick F. Taylor Foundation VICE CHAIR SC Johnson Abbe Raven Warner Bros. ______John B. Adams, Jr. A+E Networks A. Scott Berg Draper Goldman Sachs & Co. | The Honorable Ellsworth H. Brown, Ph.D. 3 John F.W. Rogers | Timothy J. O’Neill Kathryn C. Brown Intel Mrs. Dorothy Lemelson | Theodore F. Craver, Jr. The Lemelson Foundation Randy Falco Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan Barry and Wendy Meyer Foundation Steven B. Fink Monsanto Jeff Garrett Paul Neely The Honorable Philip Lader LeRoy Neiman Foundation Alice and David Rubenstein David Lauren Nicholas and Jenny Taubman Randall Martinez United Soybean Board The Honorable Doris Matsui Verizon Foundation Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. Barry M. Meyer ______Paul Neely The Argus Fund Timothy J. O’Neill 2 Ford Motor Company Fund The Honorable Peter and Rhondda Grant John F.W. Rogers Kate Spade & Company The Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation Matthew K. Rose The Martin Agency David M. Rubenstein Stavros Niarchos Foundation 4 Vicki L. Ruiz, Ph.D. ______The Honorable 3M Anonymous (3) Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. Marjie and Steve Alloy Robert B. Uhler Altria Group Sue Van Charles and Hilda Anderson Joel and Carmen Anderson Wayne W. Whalen Marilyn L. Brown and Douglas N. Morton The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation EX OFFICIO TO THE BOARD Carnegie Corporation of New York The Julia Child Foundation for David J. Skorton Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Secretary of the Smithsonian Ms. Mary Claire Christensen Pete and Linda Claussen Richard Kurin The Nathan Cummings Foundation Under Secretary for History, John Deere Art and Culture Bruce Del Mar The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Bill Gale NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Genentech AMERICAN HISTORY Heritage Auction Galleries Susan and David Horowitz Foundation John L. Gray 1 6 5 Daniel K. Inouye Institute, A Program Fund Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Hawaii Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kemper | William T. Kemper Foundation Margaret Webster Land O’Lakes, Inc. Associate Director NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY LAUNCHES THE INNOVATION WING Lego Children’s Fund Lilly Endowment Inc. for External Affairs CREATIVITY, INVENTION AND INITIATIVE define the American Invention is found in everyday objects, and the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation The Lemelson Hall of Invention and Innovation, funded by Dorothy Litton Entertainment [email protected] character, and a new, first-floor wing at the National Museum of American Object Project shows just how these everyday things changed everything. Lemelson and her late husband, Jerome, also includes the exhibitions Lee and Saundra Minshull Charles H. and Helen S. Moriyama 202.633.3304 History explores these themes while transforming the way visitors learn Using the bicycle, telephone, personal computer and hundreds of other Places of Invention, which features invention hotspots across the country, Mr. Frank T. Nickell about them. The 45,000-square-foot Innovation Wing opened to the public examples, the hands-on, family learning space tells this story. Shown here and Inventive Minds, which profiles inventors. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation MUSEUM MISSION July 1, and the museum celebrated the private support that helped build it (photo 4, center right) is Phyllis Taylor, president and chairman of the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Also in the Innovation Wing, a vault door marks the entrance to the Gallery Through incomparable at donor events held in June and July (photo 1, lower left). Patrick F. Taylor Foundation and a Smithsonian National Board member, Anya and Andrew Shiva of Numismatics where The Value of Money exhibition connects American collections, rigorous research who holds a transistor radio. Siewchin Yong Sommer and dynamic public outreach, The Mars Hall of American Business and its American Enterprise exhibition history to global histories of exchange, cultural interaction, political change Stack’s Bowers Galleries we explore the infinite richness (photo 2, top left) chronicle how capitalism and democracy interact and have As learning increasingly moves online, the SC Johnson Conference Center offers and innovation. And, with the support of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Terasaki Family Foundation and complexity of American reshaped American business and life over three centuries. The hall, exhibition virtual field trips and conferences for teachers, students and scholars everywhere. Wegmans Wonderplace will open in December, the first learning space on Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thompson Robert and Lynne Uhler history. We help people and programs are made possible in part by major support from Mars, Incorporated. Shown is SC Johnson Chairman and CEO Fisk Johnson (photo 5, lower right). the National Mall for children 6 years and under. Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan understand the past in order to Within the hall, interactive displays in the Wallace H. Coulter Exchange demonstrate Innovation is part thinking and part doing. Draper Spark!Lab (photo 6, lower The West Wing’s second and third floors will launch in 2017 and 2018. Warren and Barbara Winiarski | make sense of the present and business practices and how markets work. The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Winiarski Family Foundation shape a more humane future. led by President and CEO Sue Van (photo 3, top right), also funded the Wallace center) replicates an inventor’s workspace and encourages children ages 6 The second floor explores themes of democracy, migration and immigration, Wool and Tusk H. Coulter Performance Plaza, where invention and creativity come to life through to 12 to try their hand at making things. Located in the Jerome and Dorothy while the third explores American culture. As it did for the Innovation Wing, Zegar Family Foundation americanhistory.si.edu performances and demonstrations. Lemelson Hall of Invention and Innovation, Spark!Lab is sponsored by Draper. the museum seeks private support to fuel the transformation of each space. as of September 1, 2015

HONORING GENIUS American artist Ellsworth Kelly received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal in a ceremony at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York City in April. Kelly, a member of the Smithsonian Campaign Honorary Committee, has influenced the Allan and Shelley Holt Douglas Morrison and daughter Robert and Arlene Kogod direction of 21st-century art during a career that has spanned seven decades. His abstract INVESTING IN LEARNING paintings, sculptures and prints are included Allan Holt understands the power of the National Air and Space Museum to ignite in the collections of major museums around children’s excitement about aviation and space exploration. A member of the museum’s the world, including the Smithsonian’s board, he and his wife, Shelley, made a gift through the Hillside Foundation to endow a Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. museum outreach program to increase middle school students’ competency and interest The Smithson Medal is awarded to distinguished in science, technology, engineering and math. The Holt Scholars Program works with underserved schools to provide professional development for teachers, classroom individuals who have made lasting contributions activities, webcasts and museum field trips for hundreds of students. to the advancement of art, history, culture, science and education. INVESTING IN PEOPLE A gift from Douglas Morrison increases the number of career-building fellowships Ellsworth Kelly, right, with former Hirshhorn at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) for junior researchers who are Museum and Sculpture Garden Board Member furthering knowledge of biodiversity in the tropics. In the 1970s, Morrison studied fruit Mitchell Rales and his wife, Emily. bat behavior at the STRI field station on Barro Colorado Island, Panama; today he is a biology professor at Rutgers University. “The network of scientists at STRI expanded my intellectual horizons,” he says. “I want young scientists—and especially those in Latin America—to have the opportunities STRI gave to me.” COVER STORY AMERICA NOW! Support from Robert and Arlene Kogod through the Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation brought the Smithsonian American Art Museum event America Now: Innovation in Art to the Kogod Courtyard on June 27. It included an interactive game, Starry Heavens, which featured a floating, ribbon-like installation overhead (see front cover). The event was part of a 10-year program series, America Now!, funded by the Kogods, that captures American innovation in dance, portraiture, music and art and is jointly organized by the National Museum of American History, National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

IMPACT is published by the Smithsonian Campaign. Read more online at smithsoniancampaign.org. SmithsonianCampaign DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT and PHILANTHROPIC GIVING CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR Virginia B. Clark Cynthia Brandt Stover [email protected] | 202.633.5021 [email protected] | 202.633.5248