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seum's entrance pavilion filled with the sounds of musicians 

 from Cameroon and Sourh Africa. 



Portrait Gallery, was on view at the Jimmy Carter Presiden- 

 tial Library in Atlanta, Georgia. 



June 5 



■ Exhibition Three paintings depicting heroic winged fig- 

 ures by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer 

 (1849— 1921) were on view in "Thayer's Winged Figures" at 

 the Freer Gallery of Art through February 19, 2000. 



June 8-1 4 



■ Study tour Smithsonian Study Tours, a division of The 

 Smithsonian Associates, offered a first-time program featur- 

 ing gala performances and special behind-the-scenes tours at 

 the Spoleto, USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. 



June 10-11 



■ Meeting The International Cooperative Biodiversity Group 

 held its first annual meeting on the Ecologically Guided Bio- 

 prospecting Project in Panama at the Earl S. Tupper Research 

 and Conference Center, Barro Colorado Island, rhe Universiry 

 of Panama, and Gorgas Memorial Laborarones. 



June 14 



■ Management excellence The Archives of American Art ap- 

 points Nora Maroulis as its firsr Assisranr Director, 

 Membership and Development. 



June 20-September 26 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of African Art's Sylvia 

 H. Williams Gallery was the location of "Claiming Art/ 

 Reclaiming Space: Post-Apartheid Art from South Africa." 

 The exhibition included a 23-foot-long collage, as well as 

 paintings, prints, multimedia assemblages, videorapes, and 

 an interactive artist's book. A South African film series that 

 accompanied the exhibition attracred standing-room-only 

 audiences. 



June 22-September 5 



■ Traveling exhibition "Andy Warhol's Flash — November 

 22, 1963," an exhibition organized by the National Portrait 

 Gallery, was on view at the Delaware Art Museum. 



June 23 



■ Opening ceremony The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, pro- 

 duced by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 

 opened with distinguished speakers representing the three 

 major programs, including Governor Shaheen of New 

 Hampshire; Honorable James Rosapepe, U.S. Ambassador ro 

 the Republic of Romania; and Her Excellency Sheila Sisulu, 

 U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. 



June 18 



■ Public program Reception and screening of documentary 

 film "Rabbit in the Moon" about internment of Japanese 

 Americans during World War II. Cosponsored by Freer/ 

 Sackler and National Asian American Telecommunication 

 Association (NAATA). 



June 18 



■ Transfer The National Postal Museum receives two gold 

 U.S. postal inspector badges from the U.S. Postal Inspection 

 Service. 



June 18-January 9 



■ Exhibition "Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His 

 Time" was on view at the National Portrait Gallery. Hem- 

 ingway has been called rhe single most influential American 

 writer of the twentieth century, and in his own day he 

 achieved an unmatched literary and popular celebrity. This 

 exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of his birth with 

 photographs, paintings, letters, first editions, manuscripts, 

 and personal memorabilia. 



June 19-September 7 



■ Traveling exhibition "Faces of TIME: Seventy-five Years of 

 TIME Magazine Cover Porrraits," organized by rhe National 



June 23-27 



■ Seminar The Center for Folklife and Cultutal Heritage 

 held its sixth annual seminar for teachers, "Bringing Folklife 

 into the Classroom." The teacher seminar drew upon the 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival as a "living laboratory" for us- 

 ing mulricultural resources and folklife techniques in the 

 K-12 classroom. 



June 23-27, June 30-July 4 



■ Exhibition The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 

 produced the 33rd annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival fea- 

 turing programs on New Hampshire, Romania, and South 

 Africa. 



June 23-27, June 30-July 4 



■ Folklife Festival The Office of Public Affairs developed 

 a local and national publicity campaign for the 33rd annual 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which featured three differ- 

 ent programs — "Celebraring New Hampshire's Srories," 

 "Gateways to Romania," and "South Africa: Crafting the 

 Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation." Media 

 coverage included network and local morning shows, a 

 number of articles in the Washington Post, and coverage 

 in the New York Times, USA Today, and Washington! an 

 magazine. 



