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October 1 



■ Development office established Acting on the same impetus 

 that created a highly successful 25th anniversary fund- 

 raising gala, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 

 launched a long-planned institutional development program 

 with the establishment of its first development office headed 

 by Carole Carle Fay. A second full-time fund raiser, Susan 

 Theis, joined the staff a few months later. In July, the mu- 

 seum issued its first direct-mail solicitation for unrestricted 

 contributions with an appeal letter sent to more than 6,800 

 individuals. The development staff worked closely with the 

 Director and Board of Trustees to finalize planning docu- 

 ments in preparation for a proposed endowment campaign. 



October 1 



■ Exhibition "Folk Art Mailbox" photography exhibition 

 opens at the National Postal Museum. 



October 1 



■ Special publication Specimens from the National Museum 

 of Natural History's collections were loaned to Steve 

 Buchanan, an illustrator from Connecticut, enabling him to 

 produce accurate images for the Insects and Spiders postage 

 stamps, which were released by the U.S. Postal Service on 

 Oct. 1, 1999. Gary Hevel of the Museum's Department of 

 Entomology edited text on the back of the stamps, describ- 

 ing each insect or spider. 



October 1-3 



■ P ublic program The National Museum of American His- 

 tory presented "The Last Angry Brown Hat," as part of its 

 ENCUENTROS: Latino America at the Smithsonian. In this 

 play by Alfredo Ramos, four ex-Brown Beret members re- 

 visit their political fight for Chicano equaliry. Presented in 

 partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute, George 

 Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, and George- 

 town University's Center for Latin American Studies. 



October 1-15 



■ Public program The National Portrait Gallery presented a 

 series of feature films, shorts, and documenraries presented 

 in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, including a mix 

 of U.S. -made films currently on the independent film festi- 

 val circuit and classics such as Salt of the Earth. Latin Festival 

 activities were made possible by the Smithsonian Center for 

 Latino Initiatives. 



October 1 -November 14 



■ Traveling Exhibition "Faces of TIME: Seventy-five Years of 

 TIME Magazine Cover Portraits," organized by the National 

 Portrait Gallery, was on view at the Reagan Presidential 

 Library in Simi Valley, California. 



Oct. 2, Nov. 20 and 21 



■ Artist talks National Museum of African Art workshops 

 and demonstrations by practicing artists engaged attentive 

 audiences eager ro meet and talk with African artists. For 

 example, Nyamekese Osei-Tutu, an Asante master weaver, 

 demonstrated and discussed kente weaving techniques and 

 Gilbert "Bobbo" Ahiagble, an Ewe master weaver from 

 Ghana, demonstrated and discussed kente weaving. 



October 3-February 6 



■ Exhibition "Instrument of Change: Jim Schoppert Retro- 

 spective Exhibition, 1947— 1992" at NMAI George Gustav 

 Heye Center, New York City. The work of the influential 

 Tlingit artist Jim Schoppert (1947— 1992) was showcased 

 in this exhibition of 50 objects that include large wood- 

 carvings, masks, and poetry. This retrospective celebrated 

 the innovative art of Schoppert, an artist who challenged the 

 traditional norms of Northwest Coast art while at the same 

 time serving as a spokesperson for all contemporary Alaska 

 Native artists. Organized by the Anchorage Museum of 

 History and Art. 



October 5 



■ Ceremony With support from the Office of the Under 

 Secrerary for Science, the Smithsonian's Community Com- 

 mittee revived a Smithsonian exhibition award program thar 

 had been established in 1993 by Tom Freudenheim, who 

 was then the Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities. 

 Nominations were solicited from staff and judged by peer 

 review, using experts both inside and outside the Institute. 

 Awards were made in eight different categories and pre- 

 sented at a ceremony in American History's Carmichael 

 Auditorium on October 5. 



October 6 



'JSTOR database Smithsonian-affiliated researchers now 

 have desk-top access to the JSTOR database of 1 17 historical 

 scholarly journals. Fields covered to date include African 

 American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, 

 economics, mathematics, philosophy, political science, 

 economics, education, finance, history, literature, popula- 

 tion/demography, sociology, and statistics. A new initiative 

 focuses on science and will include transactions and proceed- 

 ings of scientific societies. SIL loaned volumes of the Royal 

 Society transactions and proceedings to JSTOR for digitiz- 

 ing as part of the enterprise. 



October 7 



■ Exhibition and programs "Regarding Beaury: A View of 

 the Late Twentieth Century," a 2 5th-anniversary exhibirion 

 exploring concepts of beauty in modern and contemporary 

 art, opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculprure Gar- 

 den, accompanied by a 232-page catalog. Diverse programs 

 probing the complex exhibition subject included a five-artist 



