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 April 3, 2001. Cosponsored with the Hispanic Hetitage 

 Month Planning Committee. 



September 22 



■ Award The Archives of American Art receives a gift from 

 the Gerta Charitable Trust for the processing and microfilm- 

 ing of rhe papers of Marcel Breuer, noted twentieth-century 

 architect and designer. 



September 24 



■ Award Japanese arr historian Toshie Kihara, an official of 

 Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, received the Shimada 

 Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of East 

 Asian art. The prize, which includes $io,ooo, is presented 

 biennially by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler 

 Gallery and the Metropolitan Center for Far Easrern Art 

 Studies in Kyoto, Japan. 



September 24-30 



■ Exhibition "Glass! Glorious Glass!" was on view at the 

 Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. This 

 exhibition, which explored the variety of work being created 

 with glass, is the first in a series that focuses on a specific 

 medium in the expanding craft collection of the museum. 



September 24-)anuary 2 



■ Exhibition "A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus 

 Washington, African American Daguerreotypist" was on 

 view at the National Portrait Gallery. This was the first ma- 

 jor exhibition of daguerreotype portraits by Augustus 

 Washington, one of America's earliest and most important 

 black photographers. The show included 33 daguerreotypes 

 from two distinct periods in Washington's career: his tenure 

 as one of the principal daguerreotypists in Hartford, Con- 

 necticut (1846— 1853) and the early years of his residency in 

 Liberia where he settled in 1853. 



September 25 



■ Exhibition The National Air and Space Museum exhibi- 

 tion "Star Wars: The Magic of Myth" opened at the San 

 Diego Museum of Arr, the first venue on the SITES rwo-year 

 tour. Showcasing models, cosrumes, props, and original art- 

 work from rhe archives of Lucasfilm, Ltd., the exhibition 



traces the Star Wan film trilogy and how it presents Luke 

 Skywalker as an archetypical hero. 



September 25 



■ Exhibition The SITES exhibition "Serving Home and 

 Community: Women of Southern Appalachia" premiered at 

 Ohio University at Zanesville. Documentary photographer 

 Barbara Beirne traveled to Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 and West Virginia, photographing and interviewing many of 

 the remarkable women that call this region home. 



September 26 



■ Festival The National Zoo's Conservarion and Research 

 Cenrer at Front Royal hosts its Autumn Conservation Festi- 

 val, a one-day event that opens the facility to the public. 



September 28 



■ Ground breaking Working wirh the National Museum of 

 the American Indian, the Office of Public Affairs played a 

 leading role in the publicity campaign that surrounded the 

 museum's ground breaking at the last site on the National 



Mall. 



September 30 



■ Major gift Paul Peck of McLean, Virginia, gave the Na- 

 tional Portrait Gallery $2 million to promote understanding 

 of the American presidency, the largesr individual gift in the 

 museum's history. The gift will endow the Paul Peck Fund 

 for Presidential Studies, and supporr publications, acquisi- 

 tions, public programs, media outreach, and the Web site. In 

 honor of Mr. Peck's gift, a space will bear his name when the 

 museum reopens. The gift inaugurated a major fund-raising 

 drive at the Gallery. 



September 30 



■ Publication The Office of Public Affairs issued its newly 

 updated brochure "Exploring African American Heritage at 

 the Smithsonian," which provides detailed information to 

 visitors interesred in African American-related exhibitions 

 and programs at the Institution. Distribution by the Visitor 

 Informarion and Associates' Reception Center at museum in- 

 formation desks and by mail began immediately. The 

 brochure was supported by a grant from the Educational 

 Outreach Fund administered by the Smithsonian Office of 

 Education. 



