easy access to information. Visitors will find it easier to 

 locate exhibitions within their regions by clicking on a 

 map of the United States linked to tour information. 

 The site also features more extensive educational 

 resource and activity material based on current and 

 past SITES' exhibitions. Materials include "Diversity 

 Endangered," "The Good the Bad and the Cuddly," 

 "Frank Lloyd Wright," "Jazz Age in Paris," "Moscow 

 Treasures and Traditions" and "Tropical Rainforests." 

 The inclusion of the new educational materials was 

 made possible by grants from rhe Smithsonian Women's 

 Committee and the Educational Outreach Fund. 



February 



■ License Agreement The Office of Contracting 

 negotiated and awarded an affinity credit card with 

 Novus Services, Inc. This business arrangement was the 

 continuation of financial support from Novus, which 

 began, with the sponsorship of the I50th-anniversary 

 "America's Smithsonian" traveling exhibition. 



February— April 



■ Public Program The Smithsonian Associates offered 

 the second season of Radio Theatre — Live!, produced by 

 the L.A. Theater Works and presented in collaboration 

 with the Voice of America. The plays, The Heiress, All 

 My Sons, and Working, were recorded in front of live 

 audiences for subsequent broadcast across the United 

 States on public radio and around the world on the 

 Voice of America. 



February, September 



■ Architecture/Engineering and Exhibit Design The Office 

 of Contracting negotiated and awarded a contract to 

 Polshek, Tobey & Davis to restart the National Museum of 

 the American Indian Mall Museum design project. The 

 office directed the project team for design and construc- 

 tion to continue the effort during litigation of the previous 

 design contract. Also, the Office of Contracting awarded 

 negotiated contracts to Howard-Revis Design, Staples & 

 Charles, and Design Communications to design the ex- 

 hibits for the Mall Museum. These exhibitions will show- 

 case the Museum's collections on opening day 2002. 



February 6-7 



■ Public Program "Between Slavery and Freedom: Free 

 People of Color and the Coming of the Civil Wax" — An 



outgrowth of the African American Communities 

 Project, begun at the National Museum of American 

 History in 1981, "Berween Slavery and Freedom" was a 

 landmark gathering of scholars and community repre- 

 sentatives designed to analyze and synthesize new infor- 

 mation about the experiences of free people of color in 

 the antebellum South. 



February 6-M.ay 28 



■ Exhibition The Archives of American Art presenred 

 rhe exhibit "El Movimiento: Selections from the Tomas 

 Ybarra-Frausto Research Material on Chicano Art" in 

 the gallery space of the New York Regional Cenrer. The 

 archival display from the papers of Tomas Ybarra-Fraus- 

 to illustrated the major phases of the Chicano art move- 

 ment from its inception in the 1960s to the present. 



February 10 



■ Presentation Tropical Research Institute scientist 

 Nancy Knowlton gave a presentation on "Basic science: 

 key to the management of the oceans" at "An Evening 

 at the Smithsonian," an annual event organized by the 

 Fundacion Smithsonian de Panama and held at STRI's 

 Earl S. Tupper Conference Center. 



February 12 



■ Professional Presentation The Coordinator of the 

 Smithsonian Accessibility Program lectured on accessible 

 design of museum-based security systems during the 

 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection. 



February 18 



■ Public Program In an illustrated lecture presented by 

 The Smithsonian Associates, embryologist Dr. Ian Wil- 

 mut of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, dis- 

 cussed the background, controversy, and possible 

 implications of his world-famous experiment: Dolly the 

 sheep, the first adult mammal ever to be successfully 

 cloned. 



February jp 



■ Exhibition and Programs "George Segal, A Retrospec- 

 tive: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings," a four-decade 

 retrospective honoring an American artist (b. 1924) 

 whose evocative sculptures of everyday people in urban 

 environments have become signature works of modern 



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