Whistler Studies, University of Glasgow, and held at the 

 Freer. The colloquium also marked the beginning of a col- 

 laborative project between the two organizations to pub- 

 lish all the letters written by James McNeill Whistler. 



June 2 



■ Public Program "Whistler and His World," a one- 

 day segment of a three-day symposium on the life and 

 art of James McNeill Whistler, was presented at the 

 National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the exhi- 

 bition "In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James 

 McNeill Whistler." The symposium was jointly spon- 

 sored by the National Portrait Gallery, the National 

 Gallery of Art, and the Freer Gallery of Art. 



June 5 



■ Members' Event Contributing Members had a special 

 after-hours viewing ot the exhibition "Ocean Planet" at 

 the National Museum of Natural History. 



June 5 



■ Milestone Griff, the National Zoo's 13-year-old Masai 

 giraffe, gave birth to a 114-pound female calf. The new- 

 born stood 5 feet, IO inches tall and took its firsr stum- 

 bling steps in just 28 minutes. Masai giraffes, although 

 not endangered, are not common in North American 

 zoos. 



June 8—p 



■ Public Program Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

 Museum presented "Les Journees des Artisans: A Cele- 

 bration of Craftsmanship," a two-day festival featuring 

 artisans from New York and France demonstrating 

 traditional craft techniques in leather, stained glass, 

 wrought iron, gold leaf, and other materials. 



June 8 



■ Research Ground was broken for the Smithsonian 

 Astrophysical Observatory's pioneering array of six 

 submillirneter radio telescopes at a site near the summit 

 of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. 



June p 



■ Exhibition "Flight Time Barbie: Dolls from the Pop- 

 ular Culture Collection of the National Air and Space 

 Museum" opened in the museum's Flight and the Arts 

 gallery. 



June 12 



m Public Program The National Portrait Gallery pre- 

 sented "Friends of Frederick Douglass: Harriet Beecher 

 Stowe," a Cultures in Motion lecture and discussion by 

 Stowe's biographer Joan Hedrick on the phenomenal 

 impact of Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The presenta- 

 tion was accompanied by a staged reading of scenes 

 from / Ain't Your Uncle. Robert Alexander's recent play 

 based on the novel. 



June 14— September 10 



■ Exhibition "Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995" 

 launched an international tour at the Hirshhorn Mu- 

 seum and Sculpture Garden, accompanied by a public 

 dialogue by the artist and organizing curator Ned 

 Rifkin, director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. 

 Organized by that museum, where it traveled after clos- 

 ing in Washington, the retrospective charted the evoca- 

 tive abstract imagery of this Irish-born American artist 

 (b. 1945) with more than 60 paintings and works on 

 paper. From Atlanta, the exhibition traveled to Barce- 

 lona, Dublin, and Frankfurt. 



June 15 



■ Exhibition "World War II: Sharing Memories," 

 which opened at the National Museum of American 

 History, used wartime artifacts to evoke the memories 

 of visitors, who were encouraged to write their thoughts 

 in notebooks. Hundreds of people wrote firsthand ac- 

 counts and reminiscences handed down by family mem- 

 bers. Many of the notes were posted on a bulletin board 

 inside the exhibition for other visitors to read. 



June IJ 



■ Exhibition and Education Programs At the Anacostia 

 Museum, students from the Lucy Ellen Moten Elemen- 

 tary School exhibited original writings, artwork, photo- 

 graphs, and artifacts reflecting the Anacostia 

 community. This exhibition, which followed a series of 

 history lessons and exhibition-related workshops, was 

 developed through the museum's continuing partner- 

 ship with the school. It was supported by the 

 Smithsonian's Educational Outreach Fund with addi- 

 tional funding from the Freddie Mac Foundation. 



June iy 



■ Festival The Anacostia Museum held its annual day- 

 long celebration of Juneteenth, the anniversary of the 



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