March 23 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Insticucion Traveling Ex- 

 hibition Service collaborated with Artrain, America's 

 Museum on Wheels, to develop Art in Celebration! an ex- 

 hibition of original prints commissioned by The Smith- 

 sonian Associates. Art in Celebration! traveled to railroad 

 stops in 100 American communities over two years. The 

 exhibition, which explains fundamentals of art apprecia- 

 tion, was accompanied by a resident artist-educator who 

 lived aboard the train as it toured the country. 



al Science Resources Center exhibited its programs, con- 

 ducted presentations, and gave workshops on its Science 

 and Technology for Children curriculum units. 



March 30 



■ Special Event The 30th annual Kite Festival filled 

 the sky with stunning kite displays provided by contest- 

 ants from all over the world. In honor of the 150th 

 Smithsonian annivetsary, this year's festival included a 

 flying arch composed of 150 yellow and blue kites. 



March 24-April 6 



■ Tour Archives of American Art members joined the 

 Friends of the Princeton Art Museum for "Ancient 

 Crossroads: Syria and Jordan.'' This fascinating trip 

 began in the old city of Damascus and culminated in 

 spectacular Petra. Along the way, participants visited 

 fortresses, amphitheaters, excavations, castles, and other 

 architectural and art wonders. 



March 2$ 



■ Appointment Head Cataloger Sherry Kelley came to 

 the Smithsonian Institution Libraries to head the 

 Cataloging Services Department. Ms. Kelley was 

 formerly head of the University Research Library 

 Cataloging Department at the University of California 

 Los Angeles Library. 



March 2j 



Exhibition "Building a National Collection: 150 

 Years of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian" opened at 

 the National Museum of American History. The exhibi- 

 tion included more than 50 fine art prints from the 

 Smithsonian's oldest fine art collection and provided an 

 overview or the history of public and private print col- 

 lecting. It examined the shift from European works to 

 American images and identified the changes in collect- 

 ing opportunities from the American Art Union of the 

 1840s to 20th-century print clubs. The images included 

 works by Durer, Rembrandt and Currier & Ives, the 

 Federal Art Project prints from the 1930, and modern 

 lithographs by June Wayne and Larry Rivers. 



March 28-}! 



■ Outreach At the National Science Teachers 

 Association's annual convention in St. Louis, the Nation- 



April 



■ Online Sites Smithsonian Productions developed and 

 launched its electronic site on America Online and the 

 Internet to promote its nationwide broadcasts and re- 

 lated products. 



April 



m Gift In support of the Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute's Tropical Forest Canopy Research Program, the 

 Government of Denmark, through the United Nations En- 

 vironment Programme, made a gift to STRI that included 

 a tower crane and funds for canopy crane research by 

 junior scientists from Latin America. 



April 



m Publication The Office of Equal Employment and 

 Minority Affairs published and distributed pan-Institution- 

 ally the second edition of its newsletter, "Opportunities." 



April-May 



■ Endangered Species Breakthrough Artificial insemina- 

 tion techniques were used for the first time with highly 

 endangered black-footed ferrets by NOAHS (New Op- 

 portunities in Animal Health Sciences) Center reproduc- 

 tive physiologists at the National Zoo Conservation and 

 Research Center. Application of this breakthrough tech- 

 nology resulted in five females producing fifteen live 

 young. The genetic contribution of these parents is ctiti- 

 cal to preserving a healthy gene pool of this extremely 

 rare species, which has survived over the last decade 

 only in protected facilities like zoos. 



April— July 



■ Public Program "George Catlin: A Man Called 

 Medicine Paint" was presenred at the National Portrait 

 Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition "1846: 



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