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Gallery was the exclusive East Coast venue for the exhibi- 

 tion. "Shaker: Furnishings for the Simple Life" examined the 

 furnirure and decorative arts from Mount Lebanon, the first 

 and most prominent Shaker community. 



March 20 



■ Exhibition Organized by the Center for Folklife and 

 Cultural Heritage and the Smithsonian Institution Travel- 

 ing Exhibition Service, the exhibition "Creativity and 

 Resistance: The Maroon Cultures of the Americas" opened 

 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Ten- 

 nessee, and continues on a two-year tour. It focuses on the 

 history and present-day cultures of the Ndjuka, Saramaka, 

 and Aluku peoples of the Guianas; the Seminole Maroons of 

 Texas and Mexico; and the Leeward and Windward Ma- 

 roons of Jamaica. 



March 20, 21, and 28 



■ Artist demonstration Nigerian contemporary artist Sokan 

 Douglas Camp demonsrrated to teachers how to create 

 sculptures from ordinary marenals and spoke about her art 

 in a public gallery discussion, both held at the National 

 Museum of African Art. 



March 21 -June 20 



■ Exhibition "Sokari Douglas Camp: Church Ede, A Tribute 

 to Her Father," presented in the National Museum of African 

 Art's intimate Point of View Gallery, gave visitors the oppor- 

 tunity to view the contemporary Nigerian artist's monumental 

 kinetic sculpture created as a tribute to her father. 



March 23 



■ Award The Archives of American Art receives a gift of 

 $50,000 in honor of Archives' Trustee Barbara G. Fleis- 

 chman from Agnes Gund, former president of the board of 

 the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 



March 27 



■ Exhibition The SITES exhibition "Americanos: Latino 

 Life in the United States" opened at the National Museum 

 of American History. The exhibition is cosponsored with 

 the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. The bilin- 

 gual exhibition, the brainchild of actor and activist 

 Edward James Olmos, presents an intimate portrait of 

 the Latino community through the work of prize- 

 winning Latino photographers. The exhibition is the 

 centerpiece of a larger educational effort that includes a 

 Home Box Office documentary special, a Time Warner 

 Music CD, and a book published by Little, Brown. "Amer- 

 icanos," a project of Olmos Productions, is made possible 

 through the generous support of AOL Time Warner and 

 US WEST. Additional support is provided by Farmers 

 Insurance. 



March 27-October 10 



■ Exhibition "Santo Pinhole: A Saint for Photography" 

 showcase opened at the National Museum of American His- 

 tory. This tribute to Ansel Adams by New Mexican Artist 

 Elizabeth Kay. By depiciting Adams as a saint, or "santo" 

 the artist challenges the viewer to examine the legacy of the 

 photographer's work on American art and culture. 



March 28 



■ Exhibition "Devi: The Great Goddess," an exhibition of 

 120 works primarily from India, with a few examples from 

 Nepal, China, and Pakistan, was on view in the Arthur M. 

 Sackler Gallery through September 6, 1999. The sculptures 

 in bronze, stone, and terra cotta and paintings on paper, tex- 

 tile, and board ranged in style over 2,000 years. On the 

 opening day of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery exhibition, 

 "Devi: The Great Goddess," the Vedic chant ensemble of the 

 Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, the devotional song ensemble of the 

 Durga Temple and dancer Mallika Sarabhai performed 

 throughout the day. Young people and their adult compan- 

 ions joined in continuous sessions of the popular ImaginAsia 

 program by visiting the exhibition and then creating a rice- 

 flour diagram for the goddess. 



March 28-May 30 



■ Traveling exhibition "Philippe Halsman: A Retrospec- 

 tive," an exhibition organized by the National Portrait 

 Gallery, was on view at the Center for Creative Photography, 

 Universiry of Arizona, Tucson. 



March 29-April 1 8 



■ Exhibition, special event The National Music Museum af- 

 filiate in Washington, D.C., celebrated the Duke Ellington 

 anniversary by hosting SITES' "Beyond Category" exhibition 

 at Union Station and arranging a series of performances. 



April 



■ Acquisition Smithsonian Folkways Recordings acquired 

 Monitor Recordings, comprised mostly of music from the 

 Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and other parrs of Europe. 

 Begun in 1956, Monitor has more than 250 folk and classi- 

 cal music recordings in its catalogue. 



April 



■ Curriculum development The National Science Resources 

 Center focussed much of its curriculum development efforts 

 on the development of Science and Technology Concepts for 

 Middle Schools (STC/MS), a comprehensive science and 

 technology curriculum for grades 7 and 8. The four STC/MS 

 modules under development — Human Body Systems, Properties 

 of Matter, Catastrophic Events, and Energy, Machines, and Mo- 

 tion — underwenr field testing during this past year. 

 Complerion of the field testing during the spring semester 



