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Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the United States WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST (Chancellor) The Vice President of the United States AL GORE Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST,D ANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, (1 VACANCY) Citizen Members HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., BARBER B. CONABLE, ANNE D’HARNONCOURT, LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR., HANNA HOLBORN GRAY, MANUEL L. IBAN˜ EZ,H OMER A. NEAL, FRANK A. SHRONTZ, WESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary I. MICHAEL HEYMAN The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director, Office of Planning, Management L. CAROLE WHARTON and Budget Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity THOMAS E. LOVEJOY and Environmental Affairs Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic MARC PACHTER Communications and Special Projects Counselor to the Secretary for Community MIGUEL BRETOS Affairs and Special Projects Executive Assistant to the Secretary JAMES M. HOBBINS Executive Secretary to the Secretary BARBARA CEDERBORG Under Secretary CONSTANCE NEWMAN General Counsel JOHN E. HUERTA Director, Office of Government Relations DONALD L. HARDY Director, Office of Communications DAVID J. UMANSKY Director, Office of Information Technology VINCENT MARCALUS Senior Information Officer JIM CONKLIN, Acting Senior Business Officer ROLAND BANSCHER, Acting

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Ombudsman CHANDRA HEILMAN Executive Director, Office of Membership ROBERT V. HANLE and Development Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Conference Services Chief Financial Officer RICK JOHNSON Director, Office of Sponsored Projects ARDELLE FOSS Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources CAROLYN JONES Director, Office of Imaging, Printing, and JAMES H. WALLACE, JR. Photographic Services Director, Office of Contracting JOHN W. COBERT Director, Office of Physical Plant MICHAEL SOFIELD Director, Office of Protection Services DAVID F. MORRELL Director, Office of Environmental WILLIAM F. BILLINGSLEY Management and Safety Treasurer SUDEEP ANAND Comptroller M. LESLIE CASSON Provost J. DENNIS O’CONNOR Director, Anacostia Museum and Center for STEVEN NEWSOME African American History and Culture Director, Archives of American Art RICHARD WATTENMAKER Building Director, Arts and Industries JAMES HOBBINS Building Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design DIANNE PILGRIM Museum Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. MILO C. BEACH Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture JAMES T. DEMETRION Garden Director, National Air and Space Museum DONALD D. ENGEN Director, National Museum of African Art ROSLYN A. WALKER Director, National Museum of American Art ELIZABETH BROUN Curator in Charge, Renwick Gallery KENNETH R. TRAPP Director, National Museum of American SPENCER CREW History Director, National Museum of the American W. RICHARD WEST, JR. Indian Director, National Campaign for NMAI JOHN L. COLONGHI Director, National Museum of Natural ROBERT W. FRI History Director, National Portrait Gallery ALAN M. FERN Director, National Postal Museum JAMES BRUNS Director, National Zoological Park MICHAEL ROBINSON Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Center for Museum Studies REX ELLIS Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service Director, Institutional Studies Office ZAHAVA DOERING Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental DAVID L. CORRELL Research Center

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Director, Smithsonian Marine Research MARY RICE Station Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute Director, Smithsonian Center for Materials LAMBERTUS VAN ZELST Research and Education Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries NANCY E. GWINN Director, Museum Support Center CATHERINE J. KERBY Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Director, Smithsonian Office of Education ANN BAY Director, Center for Folklife Programs and RICHARD KURIN Cultural Studies Director, National Science Resources Center DOUGLAS LAPP Director, Wider Audience Development MARSHALL WONG Program Director, Office of International Relations FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Smithsonian’s Affiliates Program MICHAEL CARRIGAN Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino (VACANCY) Initiatives Director, Institute of Conservation Biology RUTH STOLK Counselor to the Provost (Asian-Pacific- FRANKLIN ODO American Activities) Director, Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian DANIEL GOODWIN Productions Editor, Smithsonian Magazine DON MOSER Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine RONALD WALKER Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman JAMES A. JOHNSON President LAWRENCE J. WILKER National Gallery of Art 1 President ROBERT H. SMITH Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director (VACANCY) Deputy Director SAMUEL WELLS Deputy Director for Planning and DEAN W. ANDERSON Management Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH H. FLOM

More than 150 years old, the Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The world’s largest museum complex, the Smithsonian includes 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of Panama. The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Institution, a respected center

1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees.

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for research, is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history.

The Smithsonian Institution was created documentation, and interpretive and by act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 educational programs relating to African- et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will American history and culture. The of British scientist James Smithson African-American church, the Harlem (1765–1829), who in 1826 had Renaissance, and jazz have been the bequeathed his entire estate to the subjects of recent exhibitions produced United States ‘‘to found at Washington, by the Museum. under the name of the Smithsonian The Center mounts exhibitions such as Institution, an establishment for the ‘‘Jazz Age in Paris,’’ a SITES exhibition increase and diffusion of knowledge that premiered at the Center; sponsors among men.’’ On July 1, 1836, Congress public programs; and collects material accepted the legacy and pledged the (approximately 7,000 objects) faith of the United States to the representative of the black experience in charitable trust. performing arts and art and culture. In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, For further information, contact the Anacostia which amounted to more than 100,000 Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC gold sovereigns, was delivered to the 20020. Phone, 202–357–2700. mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested Archives of American Art The Archives responsibility for administering the trust contains the Nation’s largest collection in the Smithsonian Board of Regents, of documentary materials reflecting the composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice history of visual arts in the United States. President, three Members of the Senate, On the subject of art in America, it is the three Members of the House of largest archives in the world, holding Representatives, and nine citizen more than 12 million documents. The members appointed by joint resolution Archives gathers, preserves, and of Congress. To carry out Smithson’s mandate, the microfilms the papers of artists, Institution: craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and —performs basic research; art societies. These papers consist of —publishes the results of studies, manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, explorations, and investigations; sketchbooks, business records, clippings, —preserves for study and reference exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape- more than 140 million artifacts, works of recorded interviews, and photographs of art, and scientific specimens; artists and their work. —organizes exhibits representative of The Archives’ chief processing and the arts, the sciences, and American reference center is in the historic Old history and culture; and Patent Office Building in Washington, —engages in educational DC. The Archives has regional centers in programming and national and California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and international cooperative research. New York. Smithsonian activities are supported For further information, contact the Archives of by its trust endowments; gifts, grants, American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and contracts; and funds appropriated to DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2781. it by Congress. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Museum, located in New Activities York City, is the only museum in the Anacostia Museum and Center for country devoted exclusively to historical African American History and Culture and contemporary design. Collections The Museum, located in the historic Fort include nearly 250,000 objects in such Stanton neighborhood of southeast areas as applied arts and industrial Washington, serves as a national design, drawings and prints, glass, resource for exhibitions, historical metalwork, wallcoverings, and textiles. A

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major renovation in 1997–1998 has movements of the modern era. The produced a new two-story connecting Museum houses a collection research structure linking the museum with its facility, a specialized art library, and a garden and with two townhouses photographic archive, available for currently known as the Design Resource consultation by prior appointment. Center. Changing exhibitions and public The outdoor sculpture garden is programs seek to educate by exploring located nearby on the National Mall. the role of design in daily life. The Among its works is the famous Museum is open daily except Mondays ‘‘Burghers of Calais’’ by Auguste Rodin. and holidays. Admission is charged. There is an active program of public service and education, including docent For further information, contact Cooper-Hewitt, tours, lectures on contemporary art and National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, New York, NY 10028. Phone, 212–860–6868. artists, and films of historic and artistic interest. Freer Gallery of Art The building, the For further information, contact the Hirshhorn original collection, and an endowment Museum and Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and were the gift of Charles Lang Freer Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. (1854–1919). The 75-year-old Gallery Phone, 202–357–2700. houses one of the world’s most National Air and Space Museum renowned collections of Asian art as Created to memorialize the development well as an important group of ancient and achievements of aviation and space Egyptian glass, early Christian flight, the Museum collects, displays, manuscripts, and works by James and preserves aeronautical and space McNeill Whistler and other 19th and flight artifacts of historical significance as early 20th century American artists. well as documentary and artistic More than 27,000 objects in the Asian materials related to air and space. collection represent the arts of East Asia, Highlights of the collection include the the Near East, and South and Southeast Wright brothers’ flyer, Charles Asia, including paintings, manuscripts, Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, a Moon scrolls, screens, ceramics, metalwork, rock, and Apollo spacecraft. The glass, jade, lacquer, and sculpture. exhibitions and study collections record Members of the staff conduct research human conquest of the air from its on objects in the collection and publish beginnings to recent achievements by results in scholarly journals and books high altitude aircraft, guided missiles, for general and scholarly audiences. rockets, satellites, and manned space They arrange thematic exhibitions from flight. The principal areas in which work the collection and present lectures in is concentrated include flight craft of all their fields of specialization. types, manned and unmanned; space For further information, contact the Freer Gallery flight vehicles; and propulsion systems. of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., Recent blockbuster exhibitions at this Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. most popular museum have included Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture ‘‘Star Wars: The Magic of Myth’’ and Garden The Museum houses major ‘‘Star Trek.’’ The Museum’s Langley collections of modern and contemporary Theater, with a giant screen presentation, art. The nucleus of the collection is the and the 70-foot domed Einstein gift and bequest of more than 13,000 Planetarium are featured. works of art for the people of the United For further information, contact the National Air States from Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 1981). 357–2700. Supplementing the permanent collection, which keeps up with current National Museum of African Art This developments through an active is the only art museum in the United acquisitions program, are loan States dedicated exclusively to portraying exhibitions focusing on emerging the rich, creative visual traditions of contemporary artists as well as on art Africa.

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Established in 1964 and incorporated emphasis on the United States. The as a bureau of the Smithsonian in 1979, building also houses the Archives of the Museum opened at its new location American Art, with its vast holdings of on the National Mall in September 1987. documentary material on American art Its research components, collection, and artists. exhibitions, and public programs The Museum makes hundreds of establish the Museum as a primary images from the collection and extensive source for the examination and information on its collections, discovery of the arts and culture of publications, and activities available Africa. In recent years, works of electronically to personal computer users outstanding aesthetic quality have been (Internet, http://www.nmaa.si.edu/) and added to a collection numbering about commercial online services. There is a 7,000 works in wood, metal, fired clay, research program for visiting scholars, ivory, and fiber. Examples of traditional and university interns are welcomed in art include a wooden figure of a Zairian many museum departments. Yombe carver; a Lower Niger Bronze Renwick Gallery The Gallery, located at Industry vessel, with chameleons; and a 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue memorial figure from the Cameroon NW., Washington, DC, is dedicated to grassfields. exhibiting crafts of all periods and to The Eliot Elisofon Photographic collecting 20th century American crafts. Archives includes some 100,000 slides, It offers changing exhibitions of photos, and film segments on Africa. American crafts and decorative arts, both There is also a specialized library of historical and contemporary, and a more than 18,000 volumes and rotating selection from its permanent periodicals. collection. The Gallery’s Grand Salon is For further information, contact the National elegantly furnished in the Victorian style Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue of the 1860’s and 1870’s. SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– For further information, contact the National 2700. Museum of American Art, Eighth and G Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– National Museum of American Art The 2700. Museum’s art collection spans centuries of American painting, sculpture, folk art, National Museum of American History photography, and graphic art. A Puerto In pursuit of its fundamental mission to Rican religious image (17th century) is inspire a broader understanding of the now the oldest object in the Museum’s United States and its people, the collection. The permanent collection of Museum provides learning opportunities, more than 37,500 works of art is drawn stimulates the imagination of visitors, upon for special groupings based on and presents challenging ideas about the subjects, media, and other Nation’s past. The Museum’s exhibits considerations. Special exhibitions are provide a unique view of the American presented each year on various aspects experience and are developed from a of American art. ‘‘nation of nations’’ collections base. A major center for research in Emphasis is placed upon innovative American art, the Museum has individuals—representing a wide range contributed to such resources as the of cultures—who have shaped our Inventory of American Paintings heritage, and upon science and the Executed Before 1914, with data on remaking of our world through nearly 260,000 works; the Slide and technology. Photographic Archives; the Smithsonian Exhibits draw upon strong collections Art Index; and the Inventory of American (around 3 million artifacts) in the Sculpture, with information on more sciences and engineering, agriculture, than 50,000 indoor and outdoor works. manufacturing, transportation, political The library, shared with the National memorabilia, costumes, musical Portrait Gallery, contains volumes on art, instruments, coins, photography, history, and biography, with special ceramics, and glass. Classic cars, First

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Ladies’ gowns, musical instruments, the hides and garments from the North Star-Spangled Banner flag, Whitney’s American Plains; goldwork of the Aztecs, cotton gin, Morse’s telegraph, the John Incas, and Maya; and Amazonian Bull locomotive, and other American featherwork. icons are highlights of the collection. Heye Center admission is free. For Political, social, military, and cultural information on hours, phone 212–825– history are well represented. Major 6700 (New York City) or 202–357–2700 installations treat everyday life in (Washington, DC). America just after the Revolutionary War, the U.S. centennial, the Industrial For further information, contact the National Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7102, 470 Revolution, the Information Age, the L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, White House, science in American life, 202–287–2523 or 202–357–2700. and the diverse origins of the American people. Hands-on activities, National Museum of Natural History demonstrations, films, and performances This museum, dedicated to highlight many aspects of the Museum. understanding the natural world and the The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks place of humans in it, is a popular field Orchestra is located at the Museum. trip destination for school groups as well Scholars may be aided in the use of as naturalists and the scholarly. The the Museum’s research collections and Museum’s permanent exhibits focus on specialized library facilities by Earth sciences, biology, and appointment. anthropology, with the most popular displays featuring gemstones such as the For further information, contact the National Museum of American History, Fourteenth Street Hope diamond, dinosaurs, marine and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC ecosystems, birds, and mammals. 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Notable attractions include the O. Orkin Insect Zoo, where a variety of arthropods National Museum of the American live in realistic habitats; and the Indian The Museum was established by Discovery Room, where visitors can act of November 28, 1989 (20 U.S.C. handle specimens and artifacts. The 80q et seq.). It will be located in three Museum also hosts a variety of special facilities: exhibitions, such as ‘‘Amber: Window to —the George Gustav Heye Center, the Past’’ and ‘‘Ocean Planet.’’ located at One Bowling Green, New York City, which is currently open; The public displays represent only a —the Cultural Resources Center in small portion of the national collections Suitland, MD, which will open in 1998 housed and maintained by the Museum. and eventually house a major portion of These encyclopedic collections comprise the Museum’s priceless million-object more than 122 million specimens, collection; and making the Museum one of the world’s —the Mall museum, which will open foremost facilities for natural history in 2001 east of the National Air and research. Museum departments include Space Museum on the National Mall’s anthropology, botany, paleobiology, last available site. entomology, vertebrate and invertebrate The Museum, whose collections were zoology, and mineral sciences. transferred to the Smithsonian from the Doctorate-level staff researchers ensure former Museum of the American Indian, the continued growth and value of the Heye Foundation, in New York City, is collection by conducting studies in the an institution of living cultures dedicated field and laboratory. The Museum to the collection, preservation, study, maintains permanent research facilities and exhibition of the life, languages, in Alaska, Florida, Belize, and Africa, literature, history, and arts of the Native among other sites. peoples of the Americas. For further information, contact the National Highlights include Northwest Coast Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and carvings; dance masks; pottery and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. weaving from the Southwest; painted Phone, 202–357–2700.

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National Portrait Gallery The Gallery and rare U.S. and foreign issue stamps was established by act of April 27, 1962 and covers. (20 U.S.C. 75a), as a museum of the Located on Capitol Hill next to Union Smithsonian Institution ‘‘for the Station, the Postal Museum is geared for exhibition and study of portraiture depicting men and women who have a family audience. A state-of-the-art made significant contributions to the museum setting offers more than 40 history, development, and culture of the videos and interactive displays, as well people of the United States.’’ It is housed as a museum shop, a stamp retail store, in one of the oldest Government and a discovery center for educational structures in Washington, the former programs, lectures, and performances. U.S. Patent Office Building. For further information, contact the National Postal The first floor of the Gallery is devoted Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, to changing exhibitions from the DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Gallery’s collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, and National Zoological Park The National drawings as well as to special portrait Zoo encompasses 163 acres along Rock collections. On the second floor are Creek Park in Northwest Washington, featured the permanent collection of DC. Established in 1889, the Zoo is one portraits of eminent Americans and the of the oldest branches of the Hall of Presidents containing portraits of Smithsonian Institution. The collection our Chief Executives. The two-story today encompasses 5,000 animals and Victorian Renaissance Great Hall on the 500 species, ranging in size and diversity third floor of the gallery houses a Civil from leaf-cutter ants to giraffes, giant War exhibition (on the mezzanine), and pandas, elephants, and rhinos. Recent is used for special events and public exhibits include ‘‘Amazonia,’’ a programs. simulated tropical rain forest; ‘‘Think A large library is shared with the Tank,’’ an exhibit focusing on animal National Museum of American Art and thinking; the ‘‘Vertebrate’’ and the Archives of American Art. The ‘‘Pollinarium’’ exhibits; and the Reptile education department offers public Discovery Center, featuring the world’s programs; outreach programs for largest lizards, Komodo dragons. The schools, senior adults, hospitals, and Zoo’s exhibits are supported by scientific nursing homes; and walk-in and group investigations conducted at the Zoo’s tours. Department of Zoological Research. For further information, contact the National Work focusing on genetics, animal Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., behavior, and reproductive studies has Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. given the National Zoo a leadership role among the Nation’s conservation National Postal Museum The Museum institutions. houses the Nation’s postal history and philatelic collection, the largest of its In addition to the animals living at its kind in the world, with more than 13 Washington facilities, the Zoo’s million objects. The 75,000 square-foot Conservation and Research Center Museum is devoted to the history of located on 3,150 acres near Front Royal, America’s mail service. The major VA, houses additional rare and galleries include exhibits on mail service endangered species. Research at the in colonial times and during the Civil Center explores animal behavior, War, the Pony Express, modern mail ecology, nutrition, reproductive service, automation, mail transportation, physiology, pathology, and clinical and the art of letters, as well as displays of the Museum’s priceless stamp medicine. The Center also conducts collection. research into the long-term maintenance Highlights include three mail planes, a of wild animal populations and captive- replica of a railway mail car, displays of breeding. It operates a training program historic letters, handcrafted mail boxes, for wildlife professionals from other

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countries, including those with festival is free. The 2-week program endangered and rare wildlife. includes Fourth of July activities. For further information, contact the National Zoo, For further information, contact the Center for 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Suite 2600, 20008. Phone, 202–673–4717. E-mail, 914 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. [email protected]. Internet, http://www.si.edu/ Phone, 202–287–3424 or 202–357–2700. To natzoo/. purchase recordings, call 800–410–9815. Office of Fellowships and Grants This International Center The International office develops and administers the Center supports Smithsonian activities numerous Smithsonian programs abroad and coordinates the designed to assist scholars and students Smithsonian’s international interests, from the United States and throughout particularly those that do not fall within the world in utilizing the Institution’s the scope of a single Smithsonian unit or unique resources. These academic museum. The International Center programs, which include long- and provides a meeting place and an short-term appointments, are an organizational channel to bring together important complement to those offered the world’s scholars, museum by universities and support participants’ professionals, and the general public, to research in art, history, and science. attend and participate in conferences, public forums, lectures, performances, Predoctoral, postdoctoral, and exhibitions, films, and workshops. graduate student fellowship programs Through the International Center, the provide scholars and students the Smithsonian seeks to encourage a opportunity to conduct research on broadening of public understanding of independently conceived projects at the histories, cultures, and natural Smithsonian facilities in conjunction environments of regions throughout the with the Institution’s research staff. world. The Office of Fellowships and Grants For further information, contact the Office of offers internships aimed at increasing International Relations, MRC 705, 1100 Jefferson minority participation in ongoing Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Smithsonian research activities and fields 357–1539. of interest. In addition, it administers all internships funded by stipends. The Center for Museum Studies The Center is an outreach office of the Smithsonian Office also administers other research that helps museums in the United States opportunity programs for many of the fulfill their public service mission. It Smithsonian bureaus. conducts training programs for museum For further information, contact the Office of professionals on museum operational Fellowships and Grants, Suite 7000, 902 L’Enfant methods, management of collections, Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 287–3271. E-mail, [email protected]. exhibitions techniques, and educational activities. Center for Folklife Programs and The Center is also the central intern Cultural Studies The Center is office for the Institution, registering all responsible for research, documentation, interns and administering a central intern and presentation of grassroots cultural application referral service. traditions. It maintains a documentary Located in the Center is the collection and produces Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Libraries Museum Folkways Recordings, educational Reference Center, the Nation’s largest materials, documentary films, museological library. publications, and traveling exhibits, as For further information, contact the Center for well as the annual Smithsonian Folklife Museum Studies, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Room Festival on the National Mall. Recent 2235, MRC 427, Smithsonian Institution, Folklife Festivals have featured a range Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3101. Fax, 202–357–3346. of American music styles, a number of State tributes, and performers from Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This Asian around the world. Admission to the art museum opened to the public

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September 1987 on the National Mall. of effective collections management Changing exhibitions drawn from major policy throughout the Institution and the collections in the United States and museum community at large. abroad, as well as from the permanent For further information, contact the Office of the holdings of the Sackler Gallery, are Smithsonian Institution Archives, 900 Jefferson displayed in the distinctive below- Drive SW., MRC 414, Washington, DC 20560. ground museum. The Gallery’s growing Phone, 202–357–1420. Fax, 202–357–2395. permanent collection is founded on a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory group of art objects from China, South The Observatory is located in and Southeast Asia, and the ancient Cambridge, MA, on the grounds of the Near East that was given to the Harvard College Observatory. Since Smithsonian by Arthur M. Sackler (1913– 1973, the observatories have 1987), a medical researcher, publisher, coordinated research activities under a and art collector. The collection has single director in a cooperative venture expanded to include Persian known as the Harvard-Smithsonian manuscripts; Japanese paintings; Center for Astrophysics. ceramics, prints, and textiles; sculptures from India; and paintings and metalware The Center’s research activities are from China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast organized in seven divisions, as follows: Asia. atomic and molecular physics, radio and Programs at the Gallery include loan geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, exhibitions and major international optical and infrared astronomy, planetary shows offering both surveys of distinctive sciences, solar and stellar physics, and Asian traditions and comparative theoretical astrophysics. exhibitions showing the art of different Data-gathering facilities include a centuries, geographic areas, and types of major observatory in Arizona, optical patronage. Many exhibitions are and radio astronomy facilities in accompanied by public programs and Massachusetts, and a submillimeter-wave scholarly symposia. facility in Hawaii (now under For further information, contact the Arthur M. construction). The Smithsonian Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., Astrophysical Observatory’s Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. observational capabilities are Office of the Smithsonian Institution complemented by library, computation, Archives The Smithsonian Institution and laboratory facilities in Cambridge. Archives acquires, preserves, and makes Research results are published in the available for research the official records Center Preprint Series and other of the Smithsonian Institution and the technical and nontechnical bulletins, papers of individuals and organizations and distributed to scientific and associated with the Institution or with its educational institutions around the work. These holdings document the world. As a further service to growth of the Smithsonian and the international science, the Smithsonian development of American science, Astrophysical Observatory serves as the history, and art. headquarters for Astronomical Telegrams The Institutional History Division and the Minor Planet Center. explores the history of the Smithsonian Astronomical Telegrams provide rapid by drawing upon the holdings of the international dissemination of news Archives and by creating new historical about the discovery of comets, novae, records such as audio and videotaped and other astronomical phenomena. The interviews. Within the Division, the Minor Planet Center is the principal Joseph Henry Papers publishes the source for all positional observations of correspondence and papers of the Smithsonian’s first Secretary, a renowned asteroids as well as for establishing their 19th century scientist. orbits and ephemerides. The National Collections Program The Observatory offers an extensive assists in and monitors the development public education program, including a

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variety of ‘‘open nights’’ held in adjacent watersheds of the Chesapeake Cambridge and at other facilities. Bay.

Information about these activities and other general For further information, contact the Smithsonian materials for students and teachers may be Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, obtained from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 301–261–4190. Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. Smithsonian Institution Libraries The Smithsonian Center for Materials libraries of the Smithsonian Institution Research and Education The Center is include more than one million volumes a Smithsonian research institute with a with strengths in natural history, art, focus on the preservation, conservation, science, humanities, and museology. The and technical study and analysis of systems’ administrative services and collection materials, with a special Central Reference and Loan are located emphasis on materials in the national in the National Museum of Natural collections. Its researchers investigate the History with 18 branch libraries located chemical and physical processes that are in most of the major Smithsonian involved in the deterioration of museum museums and research units including objects and specimens, and attempt to the Smithsonian Astrophysical formulate conditions and procedures for Observatory in Cambridge, MA; the storage, exhibit, and stabilization that Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute optimize the preservation of these in the Republic of Panama; and the materials. In interdisciplinary National Air and Space Museum. collaborations with archaeologists, Address inquiries to the appropriate anthropologists, and art historians, branch library or to Central Reference natural and physical scientists study and and Loan. analyze objects from the collections and For further information, contact the Smithsonian related materials to expand knowledge Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution and understanding of their historical and Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– scientific context. Many of the research 357–2139. E-mail, [email protected]. projects involve close collaboration with outside scholars and other Government Smithsonian Institution Traveling and academic laboratories. The Center Exhibition Service (SITES) Since 1952, also provides active analytical and SITES has been committed to making technical support to conservation and Smithsonian exhibitions available to curation efforts in the various museums millions of people who cannot view within and occasionally outside the them firsthand at the Smithsonian Smithsonian. museums in Washington, DC, and New The Center’s education program offers York City. Each year, audiences across a wide range of training opportunities, North America experience the treasures within the areas of its specialty, to and opportunities of the Smithsonian by professionals in conservation and related visiting SITES exhibitions that come to museum disciplines. local museums, libraries, science centers, historical societies, zoos, For further information, contact the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, aquariums, community centers, and Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, schools. More than 65 exhibitions on art, Suitland, MD 20560. Phone, 301–238–3700. history, and science circulate every year. SITES also offers exhibits in its Smithsonian Environmental Research International Gallery on the National Center The Center measures physical, Mall, in the S. Dillon Ripley Center, chemical, and biological interactions in 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. the environment and determines how these interactions control biological For further information, to book a SITES exhibition, responses. This research is carried out in or to receive a copy of Update, the annual catalog of current exhibitions, contact the Smithsonian a 2,600-acre facility in Edgewater, MD, Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, MRC 706, where the ecology of land/water Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. interactions is studied for the estuary and Phone, 202–357–3168.

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Smithsonian Marine Research Station marine stations in the Caribbean in the The research institute opens in a new San Blas Islands, and at Cayos Cochinos, location on South Causeway Island in Honduras, and maintains a research Fort Pierce, FL, in a state-of-the-art vessel for off-shore studies. The laboratory by the end of 1998. Scientists Institute’s scientific staff conducts at the Station catalog species and study research in these areas as well as in marine plants and animals. Among the other parts of Central and South most important projects being pursued at America, the Pacific, Asia, and Africa, the site is the search for possible causes where comparative studies are clarifying of fish kills such as pfiesteria and other the distinctive role of the tropics. organisms. National Museum of Natural For a brochure describing the History scientists also conduct research Institute’s activities and illustrating some at the Station, such as documenting the of the facilities and habitats available, giant squids and conducting biodiversity contact the Visitor Services Office, studies. More than 100 visiting scientists Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, will be accommodated at the new Unit 0948 APO AA. facility, which will include an aquarium, For further information, contact the Smithsonian a wet lab, electron microscopes, and Tropical Research Institute, 900 Jefferson Drive conference rooms. SW., MRC 555, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–786–2817. Fax, 202–786–2819. Phone For further information, contact the Smithsonian (Panama), 011–507–62–6022. E-mail, Marine Research Station, 5612 Old Dixie Highway, [email protected]. Fort Pierce, FL 34946. Phone, 561–465–6632. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Performing Arts The Center, the sole (STRI) The Institute is a research official memorial in Washington to organization for advanced studies of President Kennedy, is an independent tropical ecosystems. Headquartered in bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, the Republic of Panama, STRI maintains administered by a 49-member Board of extensive facilities in the Western Trustees. Hemisphere tropics. It is the permanent In a public/private partnership, the base of a corps of tropical researchers, Federal Government provides who in turn provide an intellectual appropriated fund support for the environment that attracts many visiting maintenance and operation of the scientists and research fellows. The physical facilities of the Presidential Institute’s researchers study the monument, while the Board of Trustees evolution, behavior, ecology, and history is responsible for raising private funds for of tropical species of systems ranging all of the artistic initiatives. Additional from coral reefs to tropical rain forests. funds for programming and education Growing strengths in molecular biology, are derived through box office sales and plant physiology, and paleoecology other earned income, and other complement established excellence in government grants. The Center’s Board is evolutionary biology and ecology. responsible for administration of the The Institute operates the Barro building and for performing arts Colorado Nature Monument, a 12,000- programming and education. acre forest reserve, including Barro Since its opening in 1971, the Center Colorado Island (protected since 1923) has presented a year-round program of and adjacent peninsulas in Gatun Lake, the finest in music, dance, and drama part of the Panama Canal. It also from the United States and abroad. maintains a research and conference Facilities include the Opera House, the center in Panama City, including one of Eisenhower Theater, the American Film the world’s finest libraries on rain forests Institute Theater, the Terrace Theater, the and related topics. In addition, STRI has Theater Lab, and the Concert Hall, home two marine laboratories, one at Naos of the Center’s affiliate, the National Island on the Pacific entrance to the Symphony Orchestra. Panama Canal and another at Galeta The Center’s Education Department Island on the Atlantic. It administers includes the nationwide Performing Arts

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Centers and Schools: Partners in acquired by private donation rather than Education, American College Theater by Government funds, which serve Festival, Youth and Family Programs, the solely to operate and maintain the National Symphony Orchestra Education building and its collections. Program, and the Kennedy Center The National Gallery’s West Building, Alliance for Arts Education Network, designed by John Russell Pope in designed to increase participation by neoclassical style, was a gift to the students throughout the country in Nation from Andrew W. Mellon, who Center activities and to establish the also bequeathed his collection to the Center as a focal point for strengthening gallery in 1937. On March 17, 1941, the arts in education at all levels. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted The Kennedy Center box offices are the completed building and works of art open daily, and general information and on behalf of the people of the United tickets may be obtained by calling 202– States of America. 467–4600 or 202–416–8524 (TDD). The National Gallery’s East Building, Full-time students, senior citizens over designed by I.M. Pei, was accepted by the age of 65, enlisted personnel of President Jimmy Carter in June of 1978 grade E–4 and below, fixed low-income as a gift of Paul Mellon and the late groups, and the disabled may purchase Ailsa Mellon Bruce, son and daughter of tickets for most performances at a 50- the gallery’s founder, and the Andrew percent discount through the Specially W. Mellon Foundation. The East Priced Ticket Program. This program is Building provides space for temporary designed to make the Center accessible exhibitions, the gallery’s growing to all, regardless of economic collections, the Center for Advanced circumstance. Study in the Visual Arts, including Visitor services are provided by the greatly expanded library and Friends of the Kennedy Center photographic archives, and volunteers. Tours are available free of administrative and curatorial offices. charge between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. A professor-in-residence position is daily. Free performances are given every filled annually by a distinguished scholar day at 6 p.m. on the Millennium Stage in the field of art history; graduate and in the Grand Foyer. postgraduate research is conducted under a fellowship program; programs For further information, contact the Kennedy Center. Phone, 202–467–4600. Internet, http:// for schoolchildren and the general www.kennedy-center.org/. public are conducted daily; and an Extension Service distributes loans of National Gallery of Art The National audiovisual materials, including films, Gallery of Art is governed by a Board of slide lectures, and slide sets throughout Trustees composed of five Trustees and the world. Publications, slides, and the Secretary of State, the Secretary of reproductions may be obtained through the Treasury, the Chief Justice of the the Publications Service. United States, and the Secretary of the The Micro Gallery, located in the Smithsonian Institution. It houses one of West Building, is the most the finest collections in the world, comprehensive interactive multimedia illustrating Western man’s achievements computer system in any American art in painting, sculpture, and the graphic museum. Thirteen computers, installed arts. The collections, beginning with the in the redesigned art information room 13th century, are rich in European old near the Mall entrance, enable visitors to master paintings and French, Spanish, see in magnified detail nearly every Italian, American, and British 18th- and work of art on display in the permanent 19th-century paintings; sculpture from collection, as well as access to the late Middle Ages to the present; information about artists, geographic Renaissance medals and bronzes; areas, time periods, pronunciations (with Chinese porcelains; and about 75,000 sound), and more. Visitors can design a works of graphic art from the 12th to the personal tour of the collection and print 20th centuries. The collections are it out to use as a guide in the galleries.

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For information, call 202–842–6188 or Director, Office of Contracting, 202–842–6653. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC For general information on the National Gallery of 20560, regarding procurement of Art and its activities, call 202–737–4215. Internet, supplies; contracts for construction, http://www.nga.gov/. services, etc.; and property management and utilization services for Smithsonian Woodrow Wilson International Center Institution organizations. for Scholars The Center, located in The following independent Washington, DC, is the Nation’s official organizations should be contacted memorial to its 28th President. The directly: John F. Kennedy Center for the Center’s mandate is to integrate the Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566; world of learning with the world of and Supply Officer, National Gallery of public affairs. Through meetings and Art, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue conferences, the Center brings scholars NW., Washington, DC 20565. Phone, together with Members of Congress, 202–287–3343. Government officials, business leaders, Education and Research Refer to and other policymakers. Through preceding statements on the Office of publication of books and the Wilson Fellowships and Grants, the Center for Quarterly and a nationally broadcast Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, radio program, the results of the Center’s the National Science Resources Center, research and meetings are made publicly the Smithsonian Education Office, and available. other offices. For information, write to The Center awards approximately 20 the Directors of these offices at the residential fellowships annually to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC individuals with project proposals 20560. representing the entire range of superior For information regarding Kennedy scholarship, with a strong emphasis on Center Education Programs, both in the humanities and social sciences. Washington, DC, and in nationwide Applications from any country are touring productions and training, contact welcome. Persons with outstanding the John F. Kennedy Center for the capabilities and experience from a wide Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566 variety of backgrounds (including (phone, 202–416–8000). government, the corporate world, The National Gallery of Art’s Center academia, and other professions) are for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts eligible for appointment. For academic was founded in 1979 to promote study participants, eligibility is limited to the of the history, theory, and criticism of postdoctoral level. art, architecture, and urbanism through The Center prefers its fellows to be in the formation of a community of residence for the academic year— scholars. The activities of the Center for September to May or June—although a Advanced Study, which include the few fellowships are available for shorter fellowship program, meetings, research, periods of not less than 4 months. and publications, are privately funded. The Center holds one round of For further information, contact the competitive selection per year. The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual deadline for the receipt of applications is Arts, National Gallery of Art, October 1, and decisions on Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– appointments are announced in March 842–6480; or fax, 202–842–6733. of the following year. Electronic Access Information about For further information, contact the Fellowship the Smithsonian Institution is available Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC electronically through the Internet, at 20560. Phone, 202–357–2841. Fax, 202–357–4439. http://www.si.edu/. Internet, http://wwics.si.edu/. Information about programs, activities, and performances at the John F. Sources of Information Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Contracts and Small Business Activities is available through the Internet, at http:/ Information may be obtained from the /www.kennedy-center.org/.

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Information about the National Gallery Smithsonian magazine; monthly copies of Art is available through the Internet, at of the Associate, the award-winning http://www.nga.gov/. guide to Resident Associate activities; Information about the programs and and dining privileges. Additionally, all activities of the Woodrow Wilson Center members receive discounts on museum for International Scholars is available shop purchases; Smithsonian Catalog through the Internet, at http:// items; Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian wwics.si.edu/. Productions publications and recordings; Employment Employment information and discounts on subscriptions to Air for the Smithsonian is available from the and Space/Smithsonian magazine. The Office of Human Resources, Smithsonian Smithsonian Associates also offer Institution, Suite 2100, 955 L’Enfant volunteer opportunities and special Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. services for individuals with disabilities. Phone, 202–287–3100. Recorded For information about Smithsonian message, 202–287–3102. membership (National Program), contact Employment information for the The Smithsonian Associates, 1100 following locations may be obtained by Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC contacting the organizations directly as 20560. Phone, 202–357–4800. National follows: Personnel Office, National membership benefits include a Gallery of Art, Fourth Street and subscription to Smithsonian magazine; Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, information services from the Associates’ DC 20565 (phone, 202–842–6298; or Reception Center; eligibility to travel on for the hearing impaired (TDD), 202– international and U.S. study tours and 789–3021); and the John F. Kennedy seminars guided by expert study leaders; Center for the Performing Arts, Human discounted tickets for Smithsonian Resources Department, Washington, DC educational events nationwide; and 20566 (phone, 202–416–8610). shopping and dining privileges. The Contributing Membership offers Films The National Gallery of Art additional opportunities to support the circulates films, slide programs, videos, Smithsonian Institution. Contributing teaching packets, and videodiscs to members, at various levels, receive an schools and civic organizations array of benefits—from receiving throughout the country. Contact the quarterly issues of Smithsonian Department of Education Resources, Institution Research Reports to being National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC invited to the annual James Smithson 20565. Phone, 202–842–6273. Please weekend and other special events. For write to request a free catalog of information about the Contributing programs. Membership, call 202–357–1699. Memberships For information about The Young Benefactors offers Smithsonian membership (Resident individuals between the ages of 25 and Program), write to The Smithsonian 45 the opportunity to increase their Associates, MRC 701, 1100 Jefferson understanding of the Institution and to Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. participate in unique fundraising events Phone, 202–357–3030. The Resident that assist the Institution in achieving its Program offers a wide variety of goals. For additional information about performing arts events, courses, lectures, the Young Benefactors, write to The seminars, symposia, films, and guided Smithsonian Associates, 1100 Jefferson tours with specialists, authors, Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. celebrities, and other notables. Phone, 202–357–1351. Additional activities include a lecture The Circle of the National Gallery of series for senior adults; classes, Art is a membership program which workshops, films, and summer camp provides support for special projects for sessions for young people; and family which Federal funds are not available. and adult/child activities. Membership Since its inception in 1986, the Circle benefits include discounts and has provided support for scholarly admissions priority; a subscription to exhibitions, acquisitions of works of art,

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publications, films, and symposia at the contact Press/Productions. Phone, 800– Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in 863–9943. the Visual Arts. For more information An events highlight advertisement about membership in the Circle of the including opening exhibits is published National Gallery of Art, please write to in the Washington Post by the The Circle, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs. The Washington, DC 20565; or call 202– advertisement appears the next-to-last 842–6450. Friday of the month. A free Welcome brochure providing a Information about activities of the brief guide to the Smithsonian Institution Friends of the National Zoo and their is published in English and several magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by foreign languages. For a copy, call writing to FONZ at the National Visitor Information, 202–357–2700. A Zoological Park, Washington, DC visitor’s guide for individuals with 20008. Phone, 202–673–4950. disabilities is also available. Information about the national and Smithsonian Institution Research local activities of Friends of the Kennedy Reports, containing news of current Center (including the bimonthly Kennedy research projects in the arts, sciences, Center News for members) is available at and history that are being conducted by the information desks within the Center Smithsonian staff, is produced by the or by writing to Friends of the Kennedy Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs, 900 Center, Washington, DC 20566. Jefferson Drive SW., MRC 421, Photographs Color and black-and- Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– white photographs and slides are 357–2627. available to Government agencies, To request a copy of Smithsonian research and educational institutions, Runner, a newsletter about Native publishers, and the general public from American-related activities at the the Smithsonian photographic archives. Smithsonian, contact the National Subjects include photographs of the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian’s scientific, technological, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC historical, and art collections. Some 20560. images date to photography’s earliest For the newsletter Art to Zoo for days. Information, order forms, and price teachers of fourth through eighth graders, lists may be obtained from the Office of write to the Smithsonian Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Education, Room 1163, MRC 402, Arts Services, Smithsonian Institution, and Industries Building, Washington, DC Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 20560. Phone, 202–357–2425. 357–1933. The Gallery Shops, National Gallery of Publications Smithsonian Press/ Art (phone, 202–842–6466), makes Smithsonian Productions and the Office available quality reproductions and of Public Affairs publish Smithsonian publications about the Gallery’s Year, the Institution’s annual report. collections. The Information Office Press/Productions also publishes a range provides a monthly Calendar of Events of books and studies related to the and several brochures including Brief sciences, technology, history, air and Guide to the National Gallery of Art and space, and the arts. A book catalog and An Invitation to the National Gallery of a list of studies are available from Art (the latter in several foreign Publications Sales, Smithsonian Books or languages). Smithsonian Institution University Press, Radio and Telephone Radio 1111 North Capitol Street, Washington, Smithsonian produces award-winning DC 20002. Phone, 202–287–3738. To radio series and specials about the arts, purchase a Smithsonian Institution sciences, and human culture for national University Press volume, call 800–782– broadcast on public radio. 4612. To purchase a recording of the Dial-A-Museum, 202–357–2020 Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, provides a taped message with daily

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announcements on new exhibits and Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 special events. Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC Smithsonian Skywatchers Report, 202– 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. TTY, 357–2000 is a taped message with 202–357–1729. weekly announcements on stars, planets, The Visitor Services Office of the and worldwide occurrences of short- National Gallery of Art provides lived natural phenomena. individual assistance to those with For a Spanish Listing of Smithsonian special needs, responds to written and Events, call 202–633–9126. telephone requests, supplies crowd Concerts From the National Gallery is control for ticketed exhibitions and broadcast 4 weeks after the performance programs, and provides information to on Washington, DC, area radio station those planning to visit the Washington, WGTS, 91.9 FM, Sundays at 7 p.m., DC, area. For more information, write to November through July. the National Gallery of Art, Office of Speakers The Education Office, Visitor Services, Washington, DC 20565. National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street Phone, 202–842–6680; or for the and Constitution Avenue NW., hearing impaired (TDD), 202–842–6176. Washington, DC 20565, provides gallery Volunteer Service Opportunities The talks and lectures. Phone, 202–842– Smithsonian Institution welcomes 6246. volunteers and offers a variety of Special Functions Inquiries regarding interesting service opportunities. the use of Kennedy Center facilities for Individuals may serve as tour docents or special functions may be directed to the information volunteers, or may Office of Special Events, John F. participate in an independent program in Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which their educational and professional Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– backgrounds are matched with curatorial 416–8000. or research requests from within the Theater Operations Inquiries regarding Smithsonian. For information, write to the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters the Visitor Information and Associates’ may be addressed to the Booking Reception Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, the Performing Arts, Washington, DC 202–357–2700. TTY, 202–357–1729. 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. Tours For information about museum Volunteers at the National Gallery of and gallery tours, contact the Art may select from providing such Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 services as giving tours of the permanent Jefferson Drive, SW., Washington, DC Gallery collection for children and adults 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. School in English or foreign languages; serving groups are welcome. as art information specialists at the art Special member tours are provided information desks throughout the West through Friends of the National Zoo, and East buildings; and assisting the National Zoological Park, 3000 library staff on assorted projects. For Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, further details, write the Education DC 20008. Phone, 202–673–4821. Division, National Gallery of Art, Visitor Information The Smithsonian Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Information Center, located in the 842–6246; or for the hearing impaired original Smithsonian building, commonly (TDD), 202–842–6176. For library known as ‘‘The Castle,’’ provides general volunteering inquiries, phone 202–842– orientation, through films, computer 6510. interactive programs, and visitor For information about volunteer information specialists, to help members opportunities at the Kennedy Center, and the public learn about the national write to Friends of the Kennedy Center, collections, museum events, exhibitions, Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– and special programs. Write to the 416–8000.

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Officers: Executive Director DAVID I. TEVELIN Deputy Director RICHARD VAN DUIZEND

The State Justice Institute was established to award grants to improve judicial administration in the State courts of the United States.

The State Justice Institute was created by of information regarding State judicial the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (42 systems; and U.S.C. 10701) as a private, nonprofit —encourage education for judges and corporation to further the development support personnel of State court systems. and improvement of judicial To accomplish these broad objectives, administration in the State courts. the Institute is authorized to provide The Institute is supervised by a Board funds, through grants, cooperative of Directors consisting of 11 members agreements, and contracts, to State appointed by the President with the courts and organizations that can assist advice and consent of the Senate. The in the achievement of improving judicial Board is statutorily composed of six administration of the State courts. judges, a State court administrator, and four members of the public, of whom no Sources of Information more than two can be of the same Inquiries concerning the following political party. programs and activities should be The goals of the Institute are to: directed to the specified office of the —direct a national program of State Justice Institute, Suite 600, 1650 assistance to ensure that all U.S. citizens King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. have ready access to a fair and effective Phone, 703–684–6100. judicial system; Grants—Chief, Program Division. —foster coordination and cooperation Publications, consumer information, speakers, Privacy Act/Freedom of Information Act requests— with the Federal Judiciary; Executive Assistant, Office of the Executive —serve as a clearinghouse and Director. information center for the dissemination Employment/personnel—Personnel Specialist.

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