and Collecting" tent, she talked with visitots about the 

 Archives of American Art from 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM on 

 the opening day of the festival and participated in a 

 panel discussion about collecting. 



June 26-30, July 5-7 



■ Exhibition The Center for Folklife Programs and 

 Cultural Studies produced the 30th annual Festival of 

 American Folklife featuring ""The American South," 

 "Iowa — Community Style," and "Working at the Smith- 

 sonian." Two Smithsonian Folkways Recordings were 

 released in conjunction with Festival programs: loua 

 State Fare: Music from the Heartland which demonstrates 

 the vitality and diversity of community music in the 

 American heartland; and Crossroads, Southern Routes: 

 Music of the American South, an enhanced CD project. All 

 media work was handled by the Office of Public Affairs. 

 National and local media, from National Public Radio 

 to News Channel 8, covered the Festival. 



June 28 



■ Special Event The National Portrait Gallery 

 presented "A Conversation with Al Hirschfeld" as a fea- 

 ture in its Living Self-Portrait Series. Marc Pachtet, 

 Counselor to the Secretary, interviewed the Tony award 

 winning caricaturist. 



University Center. Beyond Category, which opened July 

 6, was an official presentation of the Cultural Olympiad. 



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■ Reorganization The Office of Telecommunications 

 was renamed Smithsonian Productions and merged 

 with Smithsonian Institution Press to create Smith- 

 sonian Press/Smithsonian Productions. 



July 



■ Teacher Workshop The National Museum of 

 American Art hosted thirty K-12 teachers from Nebras- 

 ka for a week-long workshop about using art delivered 

 online in the classroom. This is the second Nebtaska 

 teachers' workshop conducted as part of NMAAs par- 

 ticipation in "The Community Discovered," coor- 

 dinated by the Westside Schools in Omaha. 



July 



■ Publication The National Museum of American Art 

 completed a packet of teachers' resource materials on 

 "Latino Art and Culture" for distribution to educators 

 nationwide. The 28-minute video, included in the pack- 

 et and featuring six contemporary Latino artists, aired 

 on WETA-TV, the local PBS station, in September and 

 October. 



June 29 



■ Exhibition Picturing Natural History, an exhibition of 

 97 contemporary scientific illustrations, opened at the 

 International Gallery. The featured artists' depictions of 

 plants, animals, habitats, geological formations, and 

 human artifacts revealed the sometimes complex but 

 often enchanting world of natural history in this tem- 

 porary exhibition organized by the International Gal- 

 lery in collaboration with the National Museum of 

 Natural History and the Guild of Natural Science 

 Illustrators. 



June 29 and July 6 



■ Exhibition Two blockbuster exhibitions from the 

 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service 

 opened in Atlanta during the 1996 summer Olympics. 

 Earth 2U. Exploring Geography opened at the Fernbank 

 Science Center on June 29, and Beyond Category: The 

 Musical Genius of Duke Ellington appeared at the Atlanta 



■ Exhibition The National Postal Museum opened a 

 blockbuster exhibit reuniting nearly 25 of the rare Inverted 

 Jenny stamp, entitled "The Jenny Class Reunion." 



July 



■ Publication The Office of Public Affairs issued an up- 

 dated version of one of its Institution-wide resources 

 brochure, "African and African American Resources at 

 the Smithsonian." This is one of a series of three 

 "resources" brochures that encourage readers to par- 

 ticipate in and partake of cultural activities, as well as 

 research, employment, internship and fellowship oppor- 

 tunities, at the Smithsonian. 



July 



■ Publication The National Postal Museum released 

 the catalog The Jenny Class Reunion in conjunction with 

 a major exhibition of the same name. 



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