November 28 



m Exhibition "Best Wishes: Holiday Greetings from 

 the White House," a temporary exhibition at the Na- 

 tional Postal Museum, displayed White House Christ- 

 mas cards from the Eisenhower administration to the 

 present. 



December 



Publications Design Competition sponsored by the 

 American Association of Museums. 



December $—p 



m Workshop The Center for Museum Studies Work- 

 shop Series began with "Introduction to Public Pro- 

 gramming." Three more workshops in basic museum 

 operations were offered during the year. 



■ Latino Outreach The Office of Public Affairs ran the 

 first of five advertising campaigns tor the year in three 

 local Latino newspapers. OPA staff wrote the text in 

 Spanish. The campaigns were geared toward the Christ- 

 mas holidays, springtime events, the Festival of Ameri- 

 can Folklife, summer events near the time of the Latin 

 American festival held in Washington, D.C., and Hispa- 

 nic Heritage Month. 



December 6 



■ Award The New York Chapter of the Industrial De- 

 signers of America awarded Cooper-Hewitt, National 

 Design Museum Director Dianne H. Pilgrim and Assis- 

 tant Director for Public Programs Susan Yelavich the 

 society's Bronze Apple Award for support, use, and en- 

 couragement of good design. 



December 



December 7 



■ Research Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory sci- 

 entists and their colleagues completed the most accurate 

 test yet of a prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of 

 general relativity. 



■ Appreciation Event The Visitor Information and 

 Associates' Reception Center hosted the annual apprecia- 

 tion event for volunteer information specialists, with re- 

 marks by Secretary I. Michael Heyman. 



December 2 



December p 



■ Benefit Event Archives of American Art members 

 were invited to the opening gala of ART 94 Los Ange- 

 les, the International Contemporary Art Fair. Proceeds 

 from the evening benefited the Archives. 



■ Awards The 1994 National Air and Space Museum 

 Trophy awards were presenred to Michael H. Carr for life- 

 time achievement and to Patty Wagstaff for current 

 achievement. 



December 2— May 29 



■ Exhibition "Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in Amer- 

 ica, 1793— 1814" was on view at the National Portrait 

 Gallery. French emigre Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret 

 de Saint-Memin spent 20 years in the United States 

 creating distinctive profile likenesses of the citizens and 

 French emigres of the new nation. More than 200 of his 

 miniature engravings and drawings were displayed. The 

 accompanying catalog, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical 

 Profile Portrait in America, by Ellen G. Miles, curator of 

 painting and sculpture at the Portrait Gallery, is a Barra 

 Foundation book published by the gallery in association 

 with the Smithsonian Institution Press. It was selected 

 as best illustrated book in the Washington Book 

 Publishers' annual Design and Effectiveness Competi- 

 tion and also won second prize for books in the Museum 



December 9— February ip 



■ Exhibition Recent proposals by Western and Rus- 

 sian artists for concepts to transform Moscow into a 

 showplace of post-totalitarian art were the focus of 

 "Monumental Propaganda," an exhibition produced 

 by the International Gallery in the Office of the Pro- 

 vost. "Collaborating with History," an introductory 

 video produced for the exhibition, raised additional 

 questions about the past and future of commemora- 

 tive monuments in the former Soviet Union. 



December 13-Marcb /j 



■ Exhibition "Katharine Kuh: Interpreting the New" 

 was on view in the Archives of American Art's New 

 York Regional Center exhibition gallery. As an art histo- 



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