January to March 2018 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS JANUARY January 1 to January 25 Image of Leonard Bernstein GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL conducting from the exhibition Leonard SOCIETY, Long Island City, NY Bernstein: The Power of World War I and America Music at the National Traveling. Organized by Literary Classics of Museum of American the United States, Inc. wwiamerica.org Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy, January 1 to January 25 Leonard Bernstein Office, NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM, Inc. Photo, Paul de Hueck. www.nmajh.org Columbus, GA World War I and America Traveling. January 1 to January 25 WHEATON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Wheaton, IL World War I and America Traveling. February 1 to February 22 February 24 to May 14 LOUDONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, PORT DISCOVERY, Baltimore, MD January 10 to February 23 Loudonville, OH Native Voices: New England NANCY CARSON LIBRARY, World War I and America Tribal Families North Augusta, SC Traveling. Traveling. Organized by the Boston Children’s Museum. www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org Changing America Traveling. Organized by the American Library February 3 to May 13 Association, in collaboration with the CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM, ARCH Smithsonian’s National Museum of African M Chattanooga, TN March 16 to September 2 American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History. America to Zanzibar: Muslim NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN www.ala.org Cultures Near and Far JEWISH HISTORY, Philadelphia, PA Traveling. Organized by the Children’s Leonard Bernstein: The Power Museum of Manhattan. cmom.org FEBRUARY of Music February 1 to February 22 February 9 to June 10 Traveling. www.nmajh.org CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WAR & SENATOR JOHN HEINZ PITTSBURGH March 25 to July 15 SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER, LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF TENNESSEE, Knoxville, TN Pittsburgh, PA ART, Los Angeles, CA World War I and America American Spirits: The Rise and Traveling. Teotihuacan: City of Water, Fall of Prohibition City of Fire Traveling. Organized by the National February 1 to February 22 Traveling. Organized by the Fine Arts Constitution Center. constitutioncenter.org Museums of San Francisco. www.famsf.org ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE, HIGH LIBRARY, Elizabethtown, PA February 17 to July 29 World War I and America VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Traveling. Richmond, VA WW1 America Traveling. Organized by the Minnesota Historical Society. www.mnhs.org Literature & Public Life: January 19 (check local listings) Creating the Great Community Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart ON THE OAD Written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain. NEH R Reading and discussion programs organized by the Maine Humanities Council. Produced by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall mainehumanities.org MacLowry. Executive producer Michael Kantor for American Masters. NEH on the Road is an initiative of the January to March www.pbs.org/show/american-masters Division of Public Programs—in cooperation with Mid-America Arts Alliance—to extend Music Unwound the reach of NEH-funded, large-scale Lecture programs organized by the Buffalo FEBRUARY exhibitions. Smaller versions of these Philharmonic Orchestra Society. February 19 (check local listings) exhibitions, supported by specially designed Tell Them We Are Rising: The education guides and program materials, January 9 to January 14 Story of Black Colleges and travel to institutions in underserved areas of SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY, Sioux the country. Please contact the Mid-America Universities . Arts Alliance if you would like to host any of Falls, SD Produced and directed by Stanley Nelson. Co- these exhibitions. Additional NEH on the Road directed and produced by Marco Williams. January 26 to January 27 exhibits are listed under the Ongoing www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/tell- Exhibitions Section. www.nehontheroad.org. L ASO YMPHONY IN E P S them-we-are-rising COLLABORATION WITH THE January 28 to March 16 NIVERSITY OF EXAS AKASHIE USEUM ULTURAL U T , El Paso, TX W M & C CENTER, Worland, WY Newest Americans ONGOING EXHIBITIONS The Power of Children: Making Public programs organized by the Rutgers a Difference State University. newestamericans.com AND WEBSITES Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized January to March by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Oregon Humanities Community January 28 to March 16 Conversations 2017–2020 EAST NORTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL Discussion programs organized by the Oregon MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM, SOCIETY, Bismarck, ND Council for the Humanities. www.oregonhumanities.org Mystic, CT House and Home January to March Voyaging in the Wake of the Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized by the National Building Museum. Whalers: The 38th Voyage of the Public Knowledge Public programs organized by the San Charles W. Morgan January 28 to March 16 Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Long-term. www.mysticseaport.org UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM, publicknowledge.sfmoma.org Greenville, SC January to March NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, Spirited: Prohibition in America Washington, DC Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Reading Deeply in Community House and Home Reading and Discussion programs organized by the National Constitution Center. Long-term. www.nbm.org by People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos. www.peopleandstories.net January to March SOLDIERS’ HOME, Washington, DC President Lincoln’s Cottage at ROGRAMS AND P the Soldiers’ Home Long-term. Organized by the National Trust EVENTS for Historic Preservation. BROADCASTS www.lincolncottage.org Community Conversations on MAINE STATE MUSEUM, Crime and Punishment JANUARY Augusta, ME Public programs organized by the New School. January 9 (check local listings) At Home in Maine statesofincarceration.org Into the Amazon Long-term. mainestatemuseum.org January to March Written, produced, and directed by John Maggio. Executive producer Mark Samels for MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Immigration, Exclusion, and the American Experience. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ Portland, ME American Dream films/into-the-amazon Maine Memory Network Public programs organized by the Center for Website. www.mainememory.net Asian American Media. caamedia.org January to March 2 MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL, POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL Portland, ME ASSOCIATION, Deerfield, MA Local and Legendary: Maine in Impressions from a Lost World the Civil War Website. www.dinotracksdiscovery.org Website. civilwar.mainememory.net POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, ASSOCIATION, Deerfield, MA Portland, ME Raid on Deerfield: The Many Fine and Decorative Stories of 1704 Arts Collections Website. 1704.deerfield.history.museum Reinstallation. www.portlandmuseum.org Lorraine Hansberry leans over her MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM, ALTIMORE USEUM OF RT typewriter in her Greenwich B M A , Village apartment on Bleecker Edgartown, MA Baltimore, MD Street during her April 1959 Laura Jernegan: Girl on African Art Collection photoshoot for Vogue. From the a Whaleship Reinstallation. www.artbma.org documentary Sighted Eyes/ Website. www.girlonawhaleship.org Feeling Heart. Courtesy, American Masters. Photo, David Attie. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, www.pbs.org/show/american- MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM, Baltimore, MD masters Edgartown, MA The American Wing Enchanted Isle: The Story of Reinstallation. www.artbma.org Martha’s Vineyard Long-term. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, www.mvmuseum.org/permanent.php# COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM, Baltimore, MD enchantedisle Garment Loft Boston, MA OLYOKE ERITAGE TATE ARK Long-term. www.thebmi.org Our Common Wealth: H H S P , The Massachusetts CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AT BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY, Experiment in Democracy HOLYOKE, WISTARIAHURST Baltimore, MD Long-term. Organized by the Friends of the MUSEUM, Holyoke, MA Commonwealth Museum. The Kids’ Cannery www.sec.state.ma.us Creating Holyoke: Long-term. www.thebmi.org Immigrants’ and Migrants’ USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM, Search for Community WALTERS ART MUSEUM, Boston, MA Site interpretation. Organized by the Baltimore, MD Wistariahurst Museum/City of Holyoke. All Hands on Deck: A Sailor’s Medieval Collection www.creatingholyoke.org Reinstallation. www.thewalters.org Life in 1812 Long-term. www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org ARNOLD ARBORETUM OF WALTERS ART MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, MD Jamaica Plain, MA Cambridge, MA Egyptian Collection Science in the Pleasure DoHistory Reinstallation. www.thewalters.org Ground: An Exploration of Website. www.dohistory.org Arboretum History ST. MARY’S CITY, VAN SWERINGEN MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, Long-term. www.arboretum.harvard.edu SITE, St. Mary’s City, MD Cambridge, MA Van Sweringen NEW BEDFORD WHALING Mount Auburn Cemetery: Archaeological Site MUSEUM, New Bedford, MA A New American Landscape Site interpretation. Organized by the Historic From Pursuit to Preservation: St. Mary’s City Commission. Long-term. www.mountauburn.org www.stmaryscity.org The Global Story of Whales CONCORD MUSEUM, Concord, MA and Whaling BOSTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, “Why Concord?” The History of www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/ current/pursuit-to-preservation Boston, MA Concord, Massachusetts Boston Black: A City Connects Long-term. www.concordmuseum.org Long-term. www.bostonkids.org 3 HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE, EMPIRE STORES MUSEUM, Pittsfield, MA Brooklyn, NY Audio Tour Waterfront at Brooklyn Site interpretation. Historical Society DUMBO www.hancockshakervillage.org Long-term. Organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society. www.brooklynhistory.org SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THOMAS COLE NATIONAL