October 24 



■ Public Program The Smithsonian Associates, in as- 

 sociation with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, 

 ptesented the Thelonious Monk International Jazz 

 Trumpet Competition. British musician Darren Barrett 

 took first prize in the contest. 



October 25 



■ Donation The National Zoo receives a $52,400 

 donation from Enron Corp. to support Asian elephant 

 tesearch. The funds will support ro Malaysian Elephant 

 Satellite Tracking System, run jointly by the Conserva- 

 tion and Research Center and the Malaysian Wildlife 

 Department. 



October 26-January 31 



■ Exhibit "About Faces" at the National Museum of 

 American History explored how the application of 

 medical research to everyday life in the past 50 years has 

 changed our perception and understanding of the way 

 we look. 



rwo fine Urhobo and Igbo figures from Nigeria; the 

 artist's book Emandulo, Re-Creatton, created in Johannes- 

 burg, South Africa; and a sculpture, The Ancestors Con- 

 verged Again, by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. 



November 



■ Film Festival The National Museum of the 

 American Indian presented its biennial Native 

 American Film and Video Festival at the Heye Center. 

 The festival offered free screenings of 70 films, videos, 

 radio programs, and multimedia producrs by in- 

 digenous media makers from North America and Latin 

 America. 



November 



■ Program The Center for Museum Studies, in col- 

 laboration with the Fundacion Antorchas and the 

 University of Buenos Aites, concludes a professional 

 development training project, based in Argentina, 

 designed to ensure that the cultural patrimony of South 

 American museums will not disappear as a result of 

 neglect or lack of resources. 



October 2p 



■ Endowment Established The Smithsonian Institution 

 Libraries established The Wineland Research Library 

 Endowment in conjunction with the purchase of the 

 Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Collection of Native 

 American and Western Exploration Literarure. Income 

 from this endowment will support projects, exhibitions 

 and public outreach, and study and research in collec- 

 tions relating to the fields of Native American and 

 Western Exploration literature. A reception was held to 

 recognize the establishment of the endowment. 



October 29 



■ Special Event The Smithsonian Associates awarded 

 the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal to filmmaker 

 George Lucas for his contributions to the advancement 

 of the art of motion pictures. 



November and May 



■ Acquisitions Several major acquisitions will be the 

 focus of further research and future exhibitions. They in- 

 clude a selection of 14 sculptures from Central and East 

 Africa and a rare Mbete reliquary figure from Gabon; 



November 2 



■ Program The 1997 Mordes Lecture in Contemporary 

 Art, made possible by Board of Trustees member Mar- 

 vin Mordes of Baltimore and his wife, Elayne, featured 

 the observations of New York Times art critic Roberta 

 Smith, who titled her talk "On Becoming and Remain- 

 ing a Critic." The annual Mordes lecture was one high- 

 light in a year of stimulating public programs, 

 including ongoing "First Friday," "Young at Art," 

 "Young Artists," and "New Voices" talks and programs, 

 writers' workshops, and the popular independent film 

 series. With the arrival in June of Linda Powell, former- 

 ly of the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, as 

 Education Program Directot, the Hirshhorn looked 

 ahead to further expansion and innovation in its public 

 programs. 



November 3—14 



■ International Workshop The Smithsonian Center for 

 Materials Research and Education staff otganized and 

 conducted a two-week course on "Preservation of Paper- 

 Based Collections and Archives," at the Museo de Bellas 

 Artes in Caracas, Venezuela. Financially supported by 

 the U.S. Information Agency and the SI-150 Commit- 



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