June iy 



■ Special Event SI Secretary I. Michael Heyman and 

 Dr.Yuan-Tseh Lee, President of the Academia Sinica of 

 Taiwan, signed partnership agreement in Honolulu to 

 collaborate on, and to provide two antennas for, the Sub- 

 millimeter Array (SMA) project now under construction 

 by SAO on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. 



June 18 



■ Exhibition Artists at Work: A Smithsonian Celebration of 

 Staff Creativity, an exhibition of staff art organized by the 

 International Gallery and the Smithsonian's 150th Anniver- 

 sary Committee, opened at the Gallery for a summer show- 

 ing. John Perrault, executive director of UrbanGlass in 

 Brooklyn, N.Y., selected 71 works from a pool of more 

 than 150 staff entries. The exhibition featured an introduc- 

 tory statement by Secretary Heyman which lauded the 

 creativity and artistic inventiveness within the Smith- 

 sonian staff and described highlights from the history of 

 staff artists and their work since the founding of the 

 Institution. 



June 20 



■ Special Event Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

 Museum held its third annual benefit auction. The event 

 raised money for the Museum's general operating funds. 



June 20 



■ Exhibition and Programs "Distemper: Dissonant 

 Themes in the Art of the 1990s," an exhibition probing 

 global, post— Cold War malaise in works by Mirostaw 

 Balka, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, 

 Mike Kelley, Guillermo Kuitca, Charles Ray, Doris Sal- 

 cedo, Thomas Schiitte, and Rachel Whiteread, opened 

 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

 Elucidating the show's theme were a catalog by co- 

 organizers Neal Benezra, Director of Public 

 Programs/Chief Curator, and Olga Viso, Assistant 

 Curator, and weekly gallery talks and films for extended 

 Thursday hours of the Smithsonian's Art Night on the 

 Mall. The show, which closed September 15, was 

 presented with the Lannan Foundation's major support 

 and the generosity of numerous other sponsors. 



June 2$ 



■ Exhibition The bilingual exhibition: "Nuestros Ar- 

 ifes: Unidos por el Caribe/Our Reefs Caribbean Con- 

 ions," the centerpiece of the 8th International Coral 



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Reef Symposium's public program, was officially 

 opened by Panama's Vice-Minister of Education Prof. 

 Hector Penalba at the ATLAPA Convention Center. 



June 23—26 



■ Public Program The 8th International Coral Reef 

 Symposium's Public Program included three public lec- 

 tures on coral reefs and related issues by specialists at- 

 tending the Symposium and a public forum on the role 

 of coastal peoples in coral reef management, supported 

 by international and Panamanian corporate sponsors 

 and international conservation organizations. 



June 25- 28 and July 21—26 



■ Institutes The National Science Resources Center con- 

 ducted two Elementary Science Leadership Institutes for 33 

 teams from school districts in 17 states and Puerto Rico. 

 Most teams included a school superintendent or assistant 

 superintendent, a science coordinator or director of cur- 

 riculum and instruction, an experienced teacher, and a 

 senior scientist representing a company or academic in- 

 stitution. The teams developed strategic plans to improve 

 the teaching of science in their elementary schools. 



June 24—29 



■ Symposium As the international celebration of Si's 

 150th, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and 

 the University of Panama hosted the 8th International 

 Coral Reef Symposium held at the ATLAPA Conven- 

 tion Center in Panama City, Republic of Panama, bring- 

 ing together some 1300 professionals from 58 countries. 



June 26 



■ Special Event At the 1996 Festival of American 

 Folklife, the Smithsonian presented the 150-year-old state 

 of Iowa with Family Folklore, a popular traveling exhibition 

 developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Ex- 

 hibition Service and the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife 

 Programs & Cultural Studies. Family Folklore, which has 

 traveled to 115 locations throughout the Western Hemi- 

 sphere, will now circulate among towns in Iowa undet the 

 management of the Iowa Humanities Council and the 

 state's sesquicentennial commission. 



June 26 



■ Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall Liza 

 Kirwin, Southeast Regional Collector, participated in 

 "Working at the Smithsonian" exhibit. In the "Research 



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