ing efforts in bringing Smichsonian traveling exhibi- 

 tions to Wisconsin. During the past decade, this widely 

 visited library in a town of 19,000 has hosted 15 exhibi- 

 tions organized by the Smithsonian Institution Travel- 

 ing Exhibition Service (SITES). Extensive press 

 coverage featured Secretary Heyman, U.S. Rep. David 

 Obey (D-WI), SITES director Anna Cohn, and Mc- 

 Millan Library director Ronald McCabe. 



April 22—2$ 



■ Workshop The American Indian Museum Studies 

 program at the Center for Museum Scudies sponsored 

 "Planning and Managing Museums for Public Audien- 

 ces," hosted by the Mashnatucket Pequot Museum and 

 Research Center, Mashnatucket, CT. 



April 22-May $ 



■ Special Event The Smithsonian Associates offered its 

 first study tour to South Africa. While in Cape Town, As- 

 sociates met with members of parliament who were in the 

 final stages of ratifying the nation's new constitution. 



April 24 



■ Special Event VIARC hosted the annual appreciation 

 event for Behind-the-Scenes volunteers in the Castle which 

 included remarks by the Provost, J. Dennis O'Connor. 



April 24-28 



■ Special Event Smithsonian Women's Committee in 

 the Office of Membership and Development organized 

 and staged a successful Smithsonian Craft Show at the 

 National Building Museum. The 1996 Craft Show 

 raised a record-breaking $310,000, to be awarded in 

 grants for various high-priority Smithsonian projects. 



April 24—26. May 8— II. May 15— ij, September 18—20 



■ Workshops "Talleres Oe la Frontera: A Workshop Series 

 on Border Culture" was held on both sides of the U.S.- 

 Mexico border and brought together teachers and stu- 

 dents for discussions on border culture and identity and 

 introduced the Center for Folklife Programs and Cul- 

 tural Studies' new bilingual education kit, Identidad y 

 Fronteras/Border and Identity. 



April 27 



■ Symposium and Poetry Reading The National Portrait 

 Gallery presented an all-day symposium and evening 



program in conjunction with the exhibition "Rebels: 

 Painters and Poecs of the 1950s." Allen Ginsberg, 

 Robert Creeley, Diane DiPrima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 

 Kenneth Koch, and Jonathan Williams read from and dis- 

 cussed their work with moderator Ron Padgett. Events 

 were jointly sponsored with the Smithsonian Associates 

 Program and funded in part by the Yamagata Foundation. 



April 28 



■ Exhibition "Down Through the Years: Stories from 

 the Anacostia Museum's Collection" explored the mean- 

 ing and uses of the objects in the museum's permanent 

 collection. 



April 50 



■ Exhibition Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

 Museum worked with the Central Park Conservancy on 

 the exhibition "Help Design Frederick Douglass Circle: 

 An Exhibition of the Community Process," which docu- 

 mented the efforts of the Central Park Conservancy to 

 involve community residents, urban design profes- 

 sionals and city officials to create ideas for redeveloping 

 Frederick Douglass Circle. 



May 



■ Grant As part of a major grant to the Smithsonian 

 for American music, the Infiniti division of Nissan 

 Motor Corporation USA provided support for Smith- 

 sonian Productions' radio series, Jazz Smithsonian, featur- 

 ing concert performances by the Smithsonian Jazz 

 Masterworks Orchestra. 



May 



■ Gift The James Renwick Alliance, a nonprofit sup- 

 port group of the Renwick Gallery, contributed 

 S79,ooo to the Renwick to purchase craft objects for its 

 permanent collection. 



May 



■ Anniversary and Public Program The American Art 

 Forum of the National Museum of American Art 

 celebrated its IOth anniversary with three days of special 

 visits in Washington, including Supreme Court cham- 

 bers, the Vice President's Residence, the Library of Con- 

 gress, and private collection visits. Twelve Arc Forum 

 members participated in a public two-part panel discus- 



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