Peale Family Papers arid other scholars in collaboration with 

 the Trust for Museum Exhibitions of Washington, D.C. It is 

 scheduled to open in Philadelphia in October 1996 and travel 

 in 1997 to San Francisco and Washington, D.C. 



Plans and manuscript for a catalogue and exhibition on the 

 life of Frederick Douglass (done in collaboration with the Na- 

 tional Park Service) are being completed. 



Substantial progress has been made towards the completion 

 of plans and manuscript for an exhibition and book (both to 

 be titled "Red, Hot & Blue") on the history of the American 

 musical stage. 



Publications 



Samt-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America by 

 Ellen G. Miles. This Barra Foundation book, co-published by 

 the NPG and the SI Press, is the culmination of twenty years 

 of research by Dr. Miles prompted by Mr. and Mrs. Paul 

 Mellon's gift of a collection of nearly one thousand Saint- 

 Memin portrait engravings to the NPG. Including a com- 

 plete, illustrated catalogue of the artist's work and an essay on 

 the neoclassical profile portrait in America, this 496-page 

 hardcover book will be available in November. 



To the President: Folk Portraits by the People by James G. Bar- 

 ber. Published to accompany the exhibition of these portraits, 

 which opened in December 1993, this is a Book-of-the-Month 

 Club selection. 



Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II 

 by Frederick S. Voss. Published by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion Press on the occasion of the NPG exhibition in April 

 1994, this book has been very favorably received. 



VanDerZee: Photographer 1886-1(183. by Deborah Willis- 

 Braithwaite and Rodger C. Birr, was published by Harry N. 

 Abrams in October 1993 to accompany the VanDerZee 

 exhibition. 



Publications in progress include Volume 4 of Selected Papers 

 of Charles Willson Peale and His Family: The Golden Years, 1820- 

 1827: Volume 5: The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale, 

 both to be published by Yale University Press; and The Peale 

 Legacy, the catalogue for the traveling exhibition of the same 

 name. 



Education 



In FY 1994 the Cultures in Motion public programs con- 

 ducted lectures, symposia, and dramatic and musical perfor- 

 mances, such as: "Murrow & Churchill: Their Finest Hour!" 

 which brought to life the friendship between Edward R. Mur- 

 row and Winston Churchill during the dark days of World 

 War II; "An Evening with Charlie Chin" a songwriter/story- 

 teller who looked back over 200 year of the Asian American 

 experience; "Historical Plays in Progress," featuring staged 

 readings of a series of new plays about a variety of historical 

 characters whose portraits are held in the Portrait Gallery's 

 collection; "The Death of King Philip," a poetic drama about 

 the American Indian king's war on the Massachusetts colo- 



nists; "Breakfast in Harlem," a theatrical collage of music, 

 dance, poetry, and prose of the Harlem Renaissance celebrat- 

 ing the spirit captured in James VanDerZee s photographs; 

 and "An Evening at Monticello," performed by the Jefferson 

 Chamber Players in celebration of Thomas Jefferson's 250th 

 birthday. 



Special Projects 



In order to assist visitors navigating the Smithsonian muse- 

 ums, NPG has produced a new visitor's guide called See More 

 About It... (a project funded via the competition on cross-refer- 

 encing sponsored by OASAH). The guide links people de- 

 picted in portraits to objects and exhibitions in other 

 Smithsonian museums. For example, visitors can see the por- 

 trait of Samuel F. B. Morse at NPG, one of his paintings at 

 NMAA, his telegraphs at NMAH, learn about the impact of 

 the telegraph on the Pony Express at NPM, and view an exhi- 

 bition celebrating Morse as an inventor at A&I. 



Office of Exhibits Central 



John Coppola, Director 



The Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) provides Smithsonian 

 museums, galleries, and exhibitors with expertise in the cre- 

 ation of permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibitions, 

 from concept to crating. The office's services include rhematic 

 development, writing, editing, design, prototyping, graphics 

 production, matting and framing, fabrication, model making, 

 artifact mounting, packing, and installation. 



This year, OEC's principal clients were the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Inter- 

 national Gallery, the Center for Folklife Programs and 

 Cultural Studies, the National Museum of Natural History, 

 and the National Museum of American History. 



The exhibitions that the office designed, edited, and pro- 

 duced for SITES included "Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Leg- 

 acy"; "Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the 

 Antebellum South"; "Mexico: A Landscape Revisited "; "The 

 Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain Forest"; "Saynday was 

 coming along . . . : Silverhorn's Drawings of the Kiowa Trick- 

 ster"; "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home 

 Front, 1941-1945"; and "More Than Meets the Eye." 



For the National Museum of Natural History and SITES, 

 the office designed "Spiders!" and produced the models and 

 some of the cases and graphic panels for that exhibition. For 

 the International Gallery, the office designed and installed 

 "The Power of Maps" in collaboration with Cooper-Hewitt, 

 National Design Museum and "In the Temple of Solomon and 

 the Tomb of Caiaphas." OEC installed "Talents of the Brush: 

 The Jill Sackler Chinese Calligraphy Competition" in the In- 

 ternational Gallery. For the National African American Mu- 



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