of American Art and che OAS Art Museum of the 

 Americas in Washington. 



June II and 25 



■ Special Events The Office of Membership and 

 Development and the Office of Special Events and Con- 

 ference Services coordinated a fund-raising gala and a 

 Members Night to celebrate the opening of "America's 

 Smithsonian" traveling exhibition in New York, New 

 York. 



undertaken as an adjunct to yearly physical exams of the 

 Zoo's apes. There is little cardiovascular data on great 

 apes in zoos, and gorillas, especially, are known to have 

 a relatively high incidence of heart disease. These exams 

 will provide a baseline of data to which equivalent 

 exams at other zoos can be compared. The National Zoo 

 is among the first zoos to adapt this advanced diagnos- 

 tic methodology for use with an entire collection of 

 gorillas and orangutans. 



June /J 



June 12 



■ Event More than 3,000 people attended the unveil- 

 ing of the U.S. Postal Service's new "American Indian 

 Dances" stamp series at the National Museum of the 

 American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in New 

 York City. The event was cited by the National Postal 

 Service as the most successful one ever sponsored by 

 that federal agency. 



June 12 



■ Tour A private tour of the house and studio of the 

 great landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, was 

 organized by the Archives of American Art New 

 England Committee. 



June 7jj 



■ Appointment Smithsonian Provost Dennis O'Connor 

 announced the appointment of retired U.S. Navy Vice 

 Admiral Donald D. Engen as director of the National 

 Air and Space Museum. 



■ Writers' Workshop In "Using Art to Inspire Writ- 

 ing," a workshop conceived and produced by Education 

 Specialist Teresia Bush, some 65 aspiring authors who 

 signed up for the free, daylong program explored the 

 galleries of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gar- 

 den and met with professional writers. Guiding par- 

 ticipants through the museum's collection and an 

 open-mike criticism were professors Don Berger of the 

 University of Maryland, Don Gallehr of George Mason 

 University, William Henry Lewis of Mary Washington 

 College, and local independent writers Leslie M. 

 O'Flahavan, a novelist, and Roseanne Singer, a poet. 



June I$-2I 



■ Exhibition "The 1896 Washington Salon and Art 

 Photography" opened at the National Museum of 

 American History. The show commemorated the 100th 

 anniversary of the Washington Salon and Art Photo- 

 graphic Exhibition of 1896, the first art photography ex- 

 hibition in the United States. More than 40 black and 

 white images originally shown at the 1896 exhibition 

 and later collected by the Smithsonian were on display. 



June 1$ 



■ Festival Juneteeth, a celebration in recognition of 

 the emancipation of Texas slaves, is an annual event 

 held at the Anacostia Museum. This year festivities in- 

 cluded music, dance and ctaft demonstrations in a day 

 long event on the museum grounds. 



June 16-21 



■ Tour A Splash of Sunshine in Santa Fe tour redux 

 further explored the sources of the art of the American 

 Southwest-painting, architecture, and design, high- 

 lighted by a tour of the studio of noted metalsmith 

 Tom Joyce. 



June 15 



■ Neu Veterinary Technology A team of consulting 

 physicians — who normally treat humans — and Nation- 

 al Zoo veterinarians conducted state-of-the-art car- 

 diovascular examinations of the National Zoo's gorillas 

 and orangutans. This collaborative medical project was 



June 16-28 



■ Seminar "Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research 

 and Museums," an annual program for Latino/a 

 graduate students, is sponsored by the Center for 

 Museum Studies and the Inter-University Program for 

 Latino Research. 



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