organization's first Home Page on the World Wide Web. In- 

 ternet users around the world can now access touring 

 schedules for the Smithsonian's traveling exhibitions; read the 

 latest news about the museums, colleges, and cultural centers 

 that host SITES exhibitions; learn how to order SITES publica- 

 tions, posters, and guidebooks; and request information about 

 bringing SITES exhibitions and resources to communities 

 throughout the United States and beyond. 



Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. has added fuel to SITES' 

 outreach efforts by funding "Earth 2.U, Exploring Geog- 

 raphy," a hands-on family exhibition which premiered at the 

 National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., and is 

 now making its way through a five-year, forty -city North 

 American tour. Earth zU , Exploring Geography and its accom- 

 panying educational programs, organized by SITES and the 

 National Geographic Society, are made possible through the 

 generous support of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. 



Earth zU , Exploring Geography is enhanced by educational 

 resources and geography game prizes for classes that visit the 

 exhibition's host museums, activity-filled Discovery Trunks 

 available to teachers in all fifty states, and 250,000 copies of 

 the Earth 2U . Exploring Geography Curriculum Guide, available 

 free of charge to every 4th, 5th, and 6th grade teacher in the 

 country. 



Host museums on the SITES tour and members of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society's network of geography educators 

 will distribute the guides and circulate the trunks among 

 America's teachers in each state. The pro]ect team is now 

 preparing a CD-ROM to make the themes and activities of 

 Earth zU. Exploring Geography available to an even broader 

 audience of educators, parents, and children. 



SITES' successful relationship with Nissan burgeoned into 

 an ambitious new music program this year. Infiniti, a division 

 of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A., pledged its continuing 

 support of the Smithsonian by making a multi-million-dollar 

 commitment to fund a collection of eight Smithsonian music 

 projects involving exhibitions, research, performances, and 

 radio programs. 



Infiniti is supporting the SITES exhibitions Wade in the 

 Water: African-American Sacred Music Traditions. This Land is 

 M) Land: Woody Guthrie's American Vision, and the following 

 programs of America's Jazz Heritage. A Partnership of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund: the 

 SITES exhibition The Jazz Age in Paris: IPI4—IP40. the 

 Washington showing of SITES' Louis Armstrong: A Cultural 

 Legacy at the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Jazz 

 Masterworks Orchestra 1996 Summer Season, the public radio 

 series Jazz Smithsonian: Musical Masterpieces of American 

 Jazz, the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Project, and a Smith- 

 sonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra compact disc. 



SITES' diverse program features exhibitions suited to near- 

 ly even- type of host organization, from blockbusters like The 

 Jazz Age m Paris to more compact presentations, such as 

 SITES' small-format version of Beyond Category: The Musical 

 Genius 0/ Duke Ellington, designed especially for America's 



libraries. For every SITES exhibition appearing in a major 

 city, there are others visiting towns such as Cozad, Nebraska 

 and Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. Organizations with 

 smaller staffs and modest resources may host SITES exhibi- 

 tions through standard booking procedures or through special 

 programs such as SITES' growing collaborations with the 

 American Library Association and the Federation of State 

 Humanities Councils. 



State humanities councils' first large-scale project with 

 SITES, a tour of Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home 

 Front. 1941-1945. ended its successful run of 58 American com- 

 munities this year. Large and small versions of the exhibition, 

 first organized by the National Museum of American History, 

 were developed for travel by SITES and the Federation of 

 State Humanities Councils (FSHC) to make Smithsonian 

 resources available to America's small-town communities 

 that typically do not have the resources to host Smith- 

 sonian exhibitions. 



The SITES-FSHC Rural Initiative will continue with the 

 launch of a third Produce for Victory tour and the March 1997 

 debut of Barn Again! a traveling exhibition organized by 

 SITES, the National Building Museum, and eight state 

 humanities councils around the country. Barn Again! has 

 benefitted from support by the National Endowment for the 

 Humanities, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and 

 the Smithsonian's Special Exhibition Fund. 



One Wisconsin town has served as an informal Smithsonian 

 outpost for twenty years, well before SITES' rural and library 

 outreach initiatives began. At a springtime ceremony in 

 Washington, the Smithsonian honored the McMillan 

 Memorial Library of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, for its 

 many years as a loyal SITES exhibitor and outstanding efforts 

 to enrich the state's cultural life. McMillan Memorial Library, 

 which serves as an all-around community center in its town of 

 19,000, has hosted 15 Smithsonian traveling exhibitions in the 

 past decade, a full 26% of all SITES exhibitions that have ap- 

 peared in Wisconsin during that period. Extensive press 

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

 (D-WI), SITES Director Anna Cohn, and McMillan Library 

 Director Ronald McCabe. 



SITES is reaching more communities like Wisconsin 

 Rapids through a new partnership with The Smithsonian As- 

 sociates and Artram, America's Museum on Wheels. SITES 

 and TSA launched a unique collaboration with Artrain to 

 develop Art in Celebration! an exhibition of original prints 

 commissioned by the Associates. The exhibition, which ex- 

 plains fundamentals of art appreciation, is accompanied by a 

 resident artist-educator who lives aboard the train, answering 

 questions and performing lecture demonstrations as the ex- 

 hibition tours the country. Art in Celebration! will travel to 

 railroad stops in 100 American communities over the next two 

 years, generating festivals and other grassroots gatherings 

 along the way. 



Art in Celebration will not be the first SITES exhibition to 

 reach 100 communities. SITES' long-running, immensely 



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