Viernamese Art from the United States and Vietnam." OEC 

 also provided design and production consultation on four 

 more SITES shows: "Earth 2U, Exploring Geography," "Ex- 

 otic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Marketplace," "Beyond 

 Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington" (small ex- 

 hibit format), and "Wade in the Water: African American Sa- 

 cred Song and Worship Traditions." OEC editors developed 

 the text for the last three exhibits. 



OEC's Model Making Unit created an exact wooden replica 

 of a 19th-century ship figurehead, hundreds of artificial fish, 

 several mannequins, and three bronze creatures for "Ocean 

 Planet," an exhibition developed by the National Museum of 

 Natural History, the Environmental Awareness Program, and 

 SITES. 



In preparation for the Smithsonian's 150th Celebration, 

 OEC has contributed significantly to many of the anniversary 

 events — and will continue to do so. OEC designed the ban- 

 ners and signage on the Mall and for each museum. OEC 

 designed, produced, and installed the plaque for the Unsung 

 Heroes awards, and the exhibit cases for "Smithson's Gift," 

 an exhibition dedicated to James Smithson's bequest to the 

 Smithsonian. "Revealing Exhibitions: Photography at the 

 Smithsonian," "From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of 

 an Institution," and many other exhibitions and events associ- 

 ated with the 150th Celebration are still in the planning stages 

 at OEC. 



OEC played a important role in many other exhibitions. 

 For Horticulture Services Division, OPP, OEC provided de- 

 sign, editing, fabrication, model making, lighting, installa- 

 tion, and project coordination for the "Posy Holders" 

 exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building. OEC pro- 

 duced graphics for the 29th Annual Festival of American 

 Folklife. For "Science and the Artist's Book," a collaborative 

 project involving the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and 

 the Washington Pro]ect for the Arts, OEC was responsible for 

 design, editing, fabrication, model making, and installation. 

 At the National Museum of Natural History, OEC provided 

 model making for "Exploring Marine Ecosystems," while at 

 the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, OEC supplied 

 exhibition consultation for the "Coral Reef exhibition and 

 illustration for "Where Land Meets the Sea." In addition, 

 OEC collaborated with the Office of the Provost and the Na- 

 tional Museum of African Art in the design, production, and 

 installation of an exhibit at the Baltimore Washington Inter- 

 national Airport. For the Office of Government Relations, 

 OEC designed, fabricated, and installed two exhibit compo- 

 nents, one for the Office of the Speaker in the U.S. Capitol 

 and another for the Rayburn House Office Building. Further, 

 OEC provided exhibition consultation and installation for 

 "The Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African Ameri- 

 can Art" and the "Equal Rights and Justice" exhibitions for 

 the Anacostia Museum at the Center for African American 

 History and Culture. OEC also furnished project consultation 

 and material management for the Ghana Project for the Inter- 

 narional Center. 



In 1995 OEC Senior Designer Mary Bird won two Federal 

 Design Achievement Awards for her design of "Spiders!" and 

 "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 

 1941— 1945." OEC also received honors from the Washington 

 Building Congress for construction of a railway mail car at the 

 National Postal Museum and a Smithsonian Exhibition 

 Awards for Outstanding Team Effort on the Postal Museum's 

 inaugural exhibits. 



There are many others projects that SI clients have taken 

 advantage of OEC's prompt, professional, and cost-effective 

 services. The Office of Exhibits Central is dedicated to the 

 continued success of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

 Exhibition Service, SITES 



Anna R. Cohn, Director 



Since 1952, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition 

 Service (SITES) has been committed to making Smithsonian 

 exhibitions available to millions of people who cannot view 

 them firsthand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 

 Each year, audiences across North America experience the trea- 

 sures and opportunities of the Smithsonian by visiting SITES 

 exhibitions on view in local museums, libraries, science cen- 

 ters, historical societies, zoos, aquariums, communiry centers, 

 and schools. 



SITES' FY 1995 program mirrored the scope and vitality of 

 the Smithsonian as never before. Traveling exhibitions featur- 

 ing spiders, ocean conservation, Mexican landscape painting, 

 jazz, and art quilts are but a small sampling of the diverse sub- 

 jects through which SITES represents collections and research 

 from the Institution's many museums and offices, and from 

 many of the nation's finest cultural organizations. 



Over the past year, collaborations — with sister museums at 

 the Smithsonian and other museums and cultural organiza- 

 tions outside the Smithsonian, foreign countries, corporations, 

 or at the grass-roots level — continue to drive the SITES pro- 

 gram. Several new SITES exhibitions began traveling this year 

 in small format, free-standing copiese: "Beyond Category: The 

 Musical Genius of Duke Ellington," "Saynday was coming 

 along. ..Silverhorn's Drawings of the Kiowa Trickster," "Before 

 Freedom: African American Life in the Antebellum South," 

 and "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home 

 Front, 1941-1945." These exhibitions, designed specifically for 

 smaller institutions and rural exhibitors, are especially import- 

 ant additions to SITES' program and ensure more than ever 

 that the wealth of the Smithsonian Institution will be experi- 

 enced by audiences everywhere: from people in the nation's 

 largest urban centers to those in the most remote rural areas. 



SITES' partnership with states humanities councils contin- 

 ued to gain momentum in FY 1995. Ongoing collaborations 



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