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June 23-27, June 30-)uly4 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, produced 

 by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, presented 

 the programs "El Rio," "Tibetan Culture Beyond the Land of 

 Snows," and "Washington, D.C.: It's Our Home." 



June 23-27, June 30-July 4 



■ Folklife Festival The Office of Public Affairs developed a 

 local and national publicity campaign for the 34th annual 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which featured three different 

 programs — "Washington, D.C.: It's Our Home," "El Rio," 

 and "Tibetan Culture Beyond the Land of Snows." Media 

 coverage included network and local morning shows, a num- 

 ber of articles in the Washington Post, and coverage in the 

 New York Times, USA Today, and Washingtonian magazine. 



June 24-28 



■ Teacher's seminar "Bringing Folklife into Your Classroom" 

 was sponsored by the Smithsonian Center for Education and 

 Museum Studies and conducted by the Center for Folklife 

 and Cultural Heritage. The seminar brought together teach- 

 ers of grades 3 through 12 to use the Smithsonian Folklife 

 Festival as a learning laboratory. 



June 24-September 24 



■ Traveling exhibition "A Durable Memento: Portraits by 

 Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist," 

 an exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, 

 was on view at the International Center of Photography in 

 New York City. 



June 25 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of African Art opened 

 the exhibition "Audible Artworks," a selection of African 

 musical instruments that demonstrates the formal inventive- 

 ness of African artists to create objects that are a delight for 

 the eyes as well as the ears. 



June 26 



■ Honor Dr. Kevin DeQueiroz, curator of Amphibians and 

 Reptiles at the National Museum of Natural History, as- 

 sumed the Presidency of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 



June 26 



■ Award 2000 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society 

 (UHMS) presented the Craig Hoffman Memorial Award to 

 Michael Lang for "long standing and high quality contribu- 

 tion to diving safety to both the diving and diving medical 

 communities." 



June 26 



■ Special event George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate 

 and Gardens became a Smithsonian affiliate. From the 



National Museum of American History, Mount Vernon ac- 

 quired several artifacts on long-term loan pertaining to the 

 life and times of George Washington. Secretary Small, Sena- 

 tor John Warner, and Congressman James Moran attended 

 the press event and ceremonies. 



June 27 



■ Exhibition opens A new educational, interactive exhibition, 

 How Do You Zoo? opens. It introduces children to the skills 

 needed to run a zoo. 



June 28-July 2 



■ Teacher seminar "Compassion and Cultural Survival: A 

 Teacher Institute on the Study of Tibet in K-12 Education," 

 organized by Global Source in Seattle. The seminar, held as 

 part of the "Tibetan Culture Beyond the Land of Snows" 

 program that was produced by the Center for Folklife and 

 Cultural Heritage, brought teachers from around the coun- 

 try to carry out independent research on selected Tibetan 

 cultural traditions, drawing on the knowledge of Festival 

 participants. 



June 29 



■ Exhibition and programs "Ed Ruscha," an exhibition of 

 more than 80 paintings, drawings, and photo-narrative 

 books representing nearly 40 years of work by this Califor- 

 nia-based American artist (b. 1937), opened an extensive 

 tour at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In 

 Washington, "Ruscha" was the fifth best-attended contem- 

 porary-art exhibition in the world, as reported by the 

 London-based Art Newspaper in its annual attendance figures 

 analysis. The show, co-organized with the Museum of Mod- 

 ern Art in Oxford, England, honored one of America's most 

 influential and independent contemporary artists, who spoke 

 at the museum on the opening day. Ruscha has remained a 

 step ahead and apart from Pop Art, media-based imagery, 

 and other art trends and movements of his time. After this 

 first venue, the show traveled to the Museum of Contempo- 

 rary Art, Chicago, the Miami Art Museum, the Modern Art 

 Museum in Fort Worth, the Museum of Modern Art, Ox- 

 ford, and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. Neal 

 Benezra, formerly Assistant Director for Art and Public Pro- 

 grams at the Hirshhorn and Kerry Brougher of MOMA 

 Oxford were co-curators. 



June 30 



■ Concert "Piano Traditions" featured gospel, Irish, blues, 

 Latino, American traditional, and boogie piano styles. The 

 concert was held as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 

 produced by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. 



June 30 



■ Exhibition "Artistic License: The Federal Duck Stamp 

 Story" reopens following gallery renovation at the National 

 Postal Museum. 



