with the Federation of States Humanities Councils and a sec- 

 ond NEH grant will result in another tour of the highly suc- 

 cessful NMAH/SITES small format version of "Produce for 

 Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-1945" to 

 Arizona, California, Indiana and Nebraska. Designed specific- 

 ally to reach rural areas, nine states are now part of this 

 unique initiative which was begun in FY 1994. 



A National Portrait Gallery exhibition, "Lincoln and His 

 Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the 

 Meserve Collection" is also traveling to five communities in 

 Utah as part of a block-booking arrangement reached with 

 that state's Humanities Council. Rural exhibitors are comple- 

 menting their displays with local objects and programming. 



The Smithsonian's major Quincentennial exhibition, "Seeds 

 of Change," is also traveling in a small format version and 

 opened in July in a brand-new specially designed facility at 

 Central Florida Community College in Ocala, Fla. Staff at the 

 college and SITES have been in discussion since January about 

 an on-site facility that would be suitable for SITES exhibi- 

 tions, and raised the necessary funds and built a new exhibi- 

 tion space in less than one year. The college is now slated to 

 host six SITES exhibitions over the next two years. 



In addition to ongoing partnerships that SITES has forged 

 with private foundations such as the Lila Wallace-Reader's Di- 

 gest Fund and corporations such as Time Warner, Inc., SITES 

 is proud to announce a new partnership this year with Nissan 

 Motor Corporation U.S.A., for the SITES/National Geo- 

 graphic Society exhibition, "Earth 2U, Exploring Geography." 

 At a special signing ceremony on October tenth hosted by Na- 

 tional Geographic Society President Gilbert M. Grosvenor, 

 Nissan's Vice President of Brand and Consumer Marketing 

 Jerry Florence presented a check for $950,000 to Secretary 

 Heyman to become the national corporate sponsor of the exhi- 

 bition. Olympic gold medal speedskater Dan Jansen will 

 serve as the national exhibition "Ambassador" of "Earth 2U, 

 Exploring Geography," which will open in November 1995 in 

 Washington, D.C. 



SITES has spent the past year gearing up for the opening of 

 this ambitious exhibition, and since May has received an addi- 

 tional $936,000 from Nissan for extensive national educa- 

 tional programming and public relations efforts in 

 conjunction with "Earth 2U, Exploring Geography." In July, a 

 "Name the Mascot" contest commenced in the Smithsonian 

 Castle for children ages 8— 12, the exhibition's primary audi- 

 ence. The "Mascot" is a lively-looking cartoon bird who is de- 

 picted throughout the exhibition. The grand-prize winner of 

 the contest, who will be announced at the exhibition's press 

 preview, will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the 1996 

 Summer Olympic events in Atlanta. "Earth 2U, Exploring 

 Geography" is geared toward children and their families and 

 is expected to make a significant contribution to curbing geo- 

 graphic illiteracy in the United States as it travels to 40 cities 

 around the country in two versions. 



Several SITES exhibitions began national tours in FY 1995, 

 reflecting the diversity of the SITES program. "Full Deck Art 



Quilts" opened at the Renwick Gallery in March. It is travel- 

 ing to 11 additional locations, including regional art centers, 

 university galleries and art museums in San Jose, Calif.; 

 Tempe, Ariz.; Ocala, Fla.; Reno, Nev.; and Mobile, Ala. The 

 small format version of the NMNH/SITES exhibition, "Sayn- 

 day was coming along . . . Silverhorn's Drawings of the Kiowa 

 Trickster," opened at the Kiowa Tribal Museum in Carnegie, 

 Okla., in January. The national tour of "Spiders!," organized 

 with the National Museum of Natural History and funded by 

 Marvel Entertainment, began in March at the Ametican Mu- 

 seum of Natural History in New In May, "VanDerZee, Pho- 

 tographer (1886-1983)" — a National Portrait Gallery/SITES 

 exhibition — began its national tour at the African American 

 Museum of Fine Arts in San Diego, Calif. The opening of this 

 exhibition garnered front-page news in the San Diego Union 

 Tribune and significantly increased attendance at the museum. 

 As a testament to how well-received this exhibition has been 

 in San Diego, the museum is now preparing to accession an 

 important, personal collection from a father and son who spon- 

 sor an African American Studies program at a local university 

 and who have lived in the area since the 1920s. 



In September, "An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnam- 

 ese Art from the United States and Vietnam" opened at the El- 

 lipse Arts Center in Arlington, Va. All of these exhibition 

 openings were accompanied events and public programs that 

 attracted enthusiastic media and public responses. 



Special initatives and events in FY 1995 included the forg- 

 ing of a new relationship between the Smithsonian and the 

 Mexican Embassy during the fall showing of "Mexico: A 

 Landscape Revisited." Secretary Heyman and Mexican Ambas- 

 sador Jorge Montaho began a series of dialogues aimed at fu- 

 ture cultural collaborations between Mexico and the 

 Smithsonian. The exhibition is currently traveling to several 

 cities around the country and will end its international tour 

 next year in Monterrey, Mexico. 



In June, SITES donated the populat NMAH/SITES exhibi- 

 tion, "Contrasts/Contrastes: Forty Years of Continuity and 

 Change in Puerto Rico," a collection of photographs by WPA 

 photographer Jack Delano that toured several years ago, to the 

 Ponce Museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The event was cele- 

 brated with public programs which featured a conference 

 given by Delano and a concert string performance of one of 

 Delano's original musical compositions. 



In September, SITES took the lead during National Arts 

 and Humanities Month. A special mailing was orchestrated 

 by SITES and the Office of the Secretary which alerted 

 members of Congress to SITES' activities in their states and 

 districts. 



SITES entered cyberspace in FY 1995. A listing of SITES ex- 

 hibitions currently ttavehng around the country is now avail- 

 able by accessing the Smithsonian's Home Page which was 

 launched on May 8. 



SITES exhibitions are oftentimes accompanied by hand- 

 some and informative publications. On the occasion of last 

 year's opening of "Mexico: A Landscape Revisited," SITES 



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