politan area. They also took daylong and overnight excursions 

 throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, including tours of Pitts- 

 burgh archirecture and history and of the West Virginia 

 highlands. 



Smithsonian Seminar parricipants spenr four to five days 

 studying a rich variety of topics in different parts of the coun- 

 try — creative writing and the history of the West at the As- 

 llomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, as well 

 as ecological issues in Acadia and Yosemite national parks and 

 in Canada's remote Yukon Territory. 



TSA offerings mirrored the cultural diversity of the nation. 

 A major tribute to Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace 

 Prize winner and Quiche-Mayan Indian from Guatemala, was 

 organized at the Smithsonian with a talk by her and a perfor- 

 mance by Latin American music groups. Many lecrures, films, 

 and performances explored and celebrated the history, research 

 and talents of African Americans, including discussions with 

 James Earl Jones and Judith Jamison and a lecture series on 

 racism keynoted by Cornel West. The cultures and influences 

 of Asian Americans, Latinos, and American Indians were fea- 

 tured in a screening of Ang Lee's film Pushing Hands, a perfor- 

 mance of Afro-Cuban music and dance by Los Munequitos de 

 Matanzas direct from Cuba, and a lecture by acclaimed Ameri- 

 can Indian artist Allan Houser, among other programs. 



Capacity audiences of members and the general public were 

 enthralled with lectures across a wide spectrum of sublets. 

 Some of the more notable speakers included Nobel Laureate 

 scientists Francis Crick and Murray Gell-Mann, Lady Marga- 

 ret Thatcher, historian Shelby Foote, Henry Kissinger, and 

 Gloria Steinem. 



Film buffs were treated to Washington premiere screenings 

 of such feature films as Shadowlands, haraka. and Germinal. 

 Eight screenings of the IMAX fearure-length film Titanica 

 had to be scheduled to accommodate demand. Experts from 

 Industrial Light & Magic captivated two capacity audiences 

 with a lecture about special effects in filmmaking. 



Performers gracing Smithsonian stages included Kenny G, 

 David "Fathead" Newman, and James Houlik in a program 

 celebrating the saxophone and co-sponsored with the Na- 

 tional Museum of American History; Ralph Stanley and other 

 masters of the banjo in a "Banjo Blowout"; and jazz pianist 

 Marian McPartland performing with Bobby Short in an eve- 

 ning recorded for broadcast on National Public Radio. Jason 

 Robards, Hume Cronyn, and (the late) Jessica Tandy were 

 among the theater stars speaking in the Campus on the Mall 

 series "The Smithsonian Celebrates Broadway's 100th 

 Birthday." 



Associates and members of the public seeking a penetrat- 

 ing examination of a subject participated in a rich range of 

 multi-week courses on the arts, humanities, sciences. Popular 

 courses included "Archaeology in Turkey: Ancient Civiliza- 

 tions, New Discoveries," "Thomas Cole and the Rise of Amer- 

 ican Landscape Painting," "The Oldest Mystery: In Search of 

 the Origins of Humankind," and "Defining America's Secu- 

 rity in an Uncertain World." Studio arts courses and all-day 



workshops atttacted participants seeking hands-on training in 

 photography, painting, drawing, and many other art media. 

 Young people and families participated in lectures, tours, 

 classes, and special events such as the Halloween party at the 

 new National Postal Museum and the 28th Smithsonian Kite 

 Festival. An adult-child tour to the U.S. Space Camp at the 

 U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama was a 

 popular addition to programming for families. Jazz trumpeter 

 Wynton Marsalis gave a lecture/workshop for aspiring young 

 jazz musicians in a free program cosponsored with SITES and 

 the National Museum of Ametican History. Audiences at Dis- 

 covery Theater, exceeding 70,000 youngsters from elementary 

 through middle school, were delighted by 12 live productions, 

 including Fromjtbaros to Juan Bobo: Folklore of Puerto Rico and 

 the theater's original production Anansi and the Wisdom of the 

 World. 



Smithsonian Institution Press 



Felix C. Lowe, Director 



The Smithsonian Institution Press (SIP) is a multimedia pub- 

 lisher and a member since 1966 of the Association of Ameri- 

 can University Presses. 



SIP is singular among Smithsonian information and educa- 

 tion offices for the breadth of its collective expertise across sev- 

 eral media; for its integrated marketing strength and the 

 sophistication in the annual sale of approximately 1,000,000 

 books, 250,000 sets of cassettes and compact disks, and 

 50,000 videos to both popular and scholarly audiences; and 

 for its concentrated representation of the Institution's research 

 interests through the range of its scholarly publications and 

 the scholarly content of its popular ones. Distribution of these 

 SIP products is accomplished through a commissioned retail 

 sales force, direct mail sales, and copubhshing atrangements. 

 For a list of SIP publications published in FY 1994, see 

 pp. 159-161. 



University Press 



Among the more than seventy titles the University Press pub- 

 lishes annually for sale to the trade, major subject strengths 

 represented are art, photography, and aesthetics, including is- 

 sues of diversity, class, ethnic heritage, and gender; aviation 

 and space history; military history; the natural sciences, with 

 increased emphasis on conservation and evolutionary biology 

 and biological diversity; archaeology and anthropology; Na- 

 tive American studies; the history of film, music, and theater; 

 museum studies, material culture, and the history of technol- 

 ogy. Representative titles published in fiscal year 1994 are: 

 The Bee Genera of North America by Michener, McGinley, and 

 Danforth; Eakins and the Photograph Works by Thomas Eaktns 

 and His Circle in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of 



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