covery program in Houston, Texas. Topics ranged from 

 the First Ladies to marine biology, Latino culture, and 

 contemporary art. Houston public television station 

 KUHT produced and aired a 30-minute documentary 

 about the Smithsonian Voices of Discover}' program, 

 which was also made available to other Texas public 

 television stations. The scholars also participated in a talk 

 show on public television, numerous radio interviews, and 

 distance learning opportunities with students. 



January 8 



■ Film Premiere The Center for Folkhfe Programs and 

 Cultural Studies sponsored the premiere of the film 

 Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation, produced and 

 directed by film-maker Andrea Simon. The film won 

 the NEH "National Conversation" competition in 1995 

 and was conceived as a means to engage broad public 

 audiences and policy-makers in dialogue about the uses 

 of culture for the exploration of group and national iden- 

 tity, the bridging of social conflicts, and the develop- 

 ment of state and civic institutions. 



January 8 



■ Publication The National Science Resources Center 

 published Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving 

 Elementary Science Education in Your School District. The 

 book presents the NSRC's model for systemic science 

 education reform. 



accessible to all visitors; by presenting the finest ex- 

 amples of traditional African art, as well as the work of 

 modern African artists; and by reaching beyond the 

 walls of the museum and beyond the nation's capital by 

 sponsoring traveling exhibitions and tapping into 

 electronic media. 



January 16 



■ Grant Awarded The Brown Foundation, Inc., 

 Houston, Texas, made a $500,000 matching challenge 

 grant to the Archives of American Art to establish the 

 William E. Woolfenden Endowment fund in honor of 

 the Archives' first director. The gift, the largest single 

 grant ever awarded to AAA in its forty-three-year 

 history, will support the publication of the Archives' 



Journal, a quarterly publication. 



January 20 



■ Special Event The National Postal Museum hosted a 

 Presidential Inaugural Ball attended by Vice President 

 Gore. 



January 20 



■ Inaugural Exhibits and Activities The Office of Public 

 Affairs coordinated with the Inaugural Committee to 

 publicize museum exhibits and activities during the 

 Presidential Inaugural weekend. 



January 13—24 



■ Course In collaboration with Panama's Natural 

 Resources Institute and the Fundacion NATURA, the 

 Tropical Research Institute sponsored a training course 

 on environmental monitoring techniques for partici- 

 pants from Panama and other Central American 

 countries, conducted as part of Si's Man and the Bio- 

 sphere Program. 



January 15 



■ Appointment Roslyn A. Walker, a longtime senior 

 curator at the National Museum of African Art and a 

 specialist in Yoruba art, was named director of the 

 museum. Dr. Walker plans to take the museum in excit- 

 ing new directions as it enters its second decade on the 

 National Mall by expanding the ways the museum com- 

 municates with its many audiences through new media; 

 by ensuring the facilities, exhibitions, and programs are 



January 26 



■ Radio Advertising Campaign The first radio advertise- 

 ment ran in the Office of Public Affairs' Black History 

 Month campaign, one of three radio advertising cam- 

 paigns this year aimed at local African American audien- 

 ces, ages 25 to 45. OPA prepared the ad copy, and three 

 local radio stations— WMMJ, WHUR, and WTOP— 

 produced the advertisements. The other two campaigns 

 were geared to the Folklife Festival and encouraging 

 late summer visitors to come to the Smithsonian "now 

 that the crowds are gone." 



January 29— March 23 



■ Exhibition The popular exhibition "A King and His 

 Cloth: Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I" focused on a 

 magnificent adinkra cloth from the National Museum 

 of African Art's important collection of textiles. The 

 exhibition included a multimedia presentation that 



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