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Www .Smithsonianeducation.Org Demonstration Schedule Meet the Author/Curator: Book Signing Exhibitors McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level Wendy Wick Reaves Kogod Courtyard, First Floor 7:30 Smithsonian’s History Explorer: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture 7:00 to 9:30 pm Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture, Second Floor Online Resources for Teaching History Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History 7:30 to 9:30 pm Cooper-Hewitt, National Smithsonian Asian Pacific 7:50 Explore Latino and Latino American Culture We are used to decoding the poster as advertising or propaganda. But what if Design Museum American Program through Traditional Music we consider the poster as a form of popular portraiture? How does the presence Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of a recognizable figure operate on our consciousness? This exhibition and the Discovery Theater The Smithsonian Associates 8:10 Benjamin Franklin: Scientist and Inventor accompanying book take a fresh look at poster art, covering a wide range of Freer Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Center for National Science Resources Center material from Lincoln’s assassin and “Buffalo Bill” to Greta Garbo, Joe Louis, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Education and Museum 8:30 A Webcomic Mystery: Forensics and Colonial History Bob Dylan, and Lance Armstrong. Curator Wendy Wick Reaves will be on hand Studies National Museum of Natural History in the exhibition gallery to discuss the posters and to sign copies of her recently Horticulture Services 8:50 Design Your Own Plankton Competition published book. Division Smithsonian Center for Smithsonian Environmental Research Center National Air and Space Folklife and Cultural Heritage Lincoln Gallery, Third Floor Meet the Curators: Gallery Talks Museum Smithsonian Early 7:30 Forces of Flight National Museum of African Enrichment Center National Air and Space Museum David Ward American History and Culture Smithsonian Enterprises One Life: The Mask of Lincoln 8:00 Amphi-theater: Excerpts from an Un-Frog-Gettable Play National Museum of Group Sales The National Zoo One Life Gallery, First Floor African Art Smithsonian Environmental 8:30 Discovery Theater’s Touring Production How Old Is a Hero? 7:30 to 9:30 pm Research Center Discovery Theater This exhibition examines Lincoln’s image as it evolved from his first emergence National Museum of 9:00 Liberty or Empire: Meet Patrick Henry as a young politician during the 1850s through to the last studio photograph that American History Smithsonian Institution George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens, a Smithsonian Affiliate was taken of him before his assassination in 1865. National Museum of the Libraries American Indian Smithsonian Institution Toby Jurovics National Museum of Traveling Exhibition Service Education Hotspots Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities Natural History Smithsonian Latino Center Smithsonian American Art Museum Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, First Floor 7:30 to 9:30 pm 7:30 to 8:30 pm National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Photography Docents will be available for questions throughout the evening. Visit the The first exhibition to pair these artists celebrates their mutual appreciation of National Postal Museum Initiative following locations to learn more about education programs and how to the natural world and reveals the visual connections between O’Keeffe’s National Science Resources Smithsonian Tropical use American art in the classroom: paintings and Adams’ photographs. Center Research Institute Get a Handle on Art, First Floor Folk Art Galleries The National Zoo Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center MVSEVM, Second Floor Rotunda Art of the WPA, Second Floor Behind the Scenes Smithsonian Affiliations Visitor Information and Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor Smithsonian American Art Associates’ Reception Center National Portrait Gallery 7:00 to 9:30 pm Museum and Renwick Gallery The Luce Foundation Center, a study center with visible storage, displays more 7:30 to 9:30 pm Smithsonian Anacostia than 3,300 paintings, sculptures, miniatures, craft objects, and folk art pieces Gallery educators will be available for questions throughout the evening. Visit Community Museum the following locations to learn more about education programs and how to use from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Test your obser- portraiture in the classroom: vation skills with a scavenger hunt, available from the Luce Information Desk. Corporate Sponsor National Portrait Gallery Education Center, First Floor Target America’s Presidents, Second Floor Lunder Conservation Center, Third Floor Mezzanine Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture, Second Floor 7:00 to 9:30 pm 20th-Century Americans, Third Floor Come up to the Lunder Conservation Center to see where conservators work to preserve the museums’ collections. Try out the touchscreen kiosks where you can see videos that explain what happens in the labs. Enrich your classroom throughout the year! More than 1,700 resources are available online at www.SmithsonianEducation.org.
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