May 21 



May 28 



■ Tour An Archives Society members' tour, private 

 viewing of the arc collection, and tour of the grounds of 

 the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston 

 (established in 1848) was sponsored by the New England 

 Regional Center of the Archives of American Art. The 

 tour provided a rare view of what has been hailed as 

 Daniel Chester French's greatest work, The Angel of 

 Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor, a bronze memorial 

 to the noted 19th-century sculptor Martin Milmore. 



May 21-22 



■ Workshop Series The Conservation Analytical 

 Laboratory, the National Gallery of Art, and the Canadian 

 Conservation Institute presented "Art in Transit," the first 

 in a series of workshops to be held in the United States and 

 Canada The workshop attracted 78 participants. 



May 26-} I 



■ Conference Participation Wider Audience Develop- 

 ment Program Director Marshall Wong coordinated a 

 panel titled "Preserving Our Collective Memory: 

 Museological Issues Facing the Asian Pacific Com- 

 munity" at the annual conference of the Association of 

 Asian American Studies. 



May 27 



■ Cultural Diversity The Smithsonian Institution 

 Libraries were awarded $37,500 by the James Smithson 

 Society to establish a pilot program for a postgraduate 

 residency for minorities in library and information science. 



May 27 



■ Benefit and Exhibition The Archives of American Art 

 West Coast Regional Center, San Marino, California, 

 sponsored a preview benefit of "Semina," an exhibition 

 devoted to the underground publication (1957—63). Semi- 

 na was co-produced by Wallace Berman (1926—76), a 

 leading artist in California during the 1950s and 1960s. 

 The Archives recently acquired the Berman papers. 



May 27-30 



■ Workshop The first International Workshop on 

 Luminous High Latitude Stars was held at the Smith- 

 sonian Astrophysical Observatory. 



■ Conference A conference on "Education Improvement 

 Planning" was held at the Smithsonian, cosponsored by 

 the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education and 

 Public Service and the Society for Applied Learning 

 Technology. The development of standards and practices 

 in the application of technology to learning methods for 

 school personnel was the subject. 



May 28-30 



■ Special Event As part of its increasing focus on in- 

 dividual fund raising, the Office of Development spon- 

 sored a weekend of activities, "Exploring the Smithsonian 

 Universe," for top individual donors and prospects. 



May 29-30 



■ Symposium A symposium titled "Contemporary 

 American Culture," organized by the National Museum 

 of American Art, was held in conjunction with the 

 exhibition "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 

 1965-1985." 



Summer 



■ Research A field team led by a National Museum of 

 Natural History paleoanthropologist found the first 

 fossil skeletal evidence (a million-year-old molar tooth) 

 of hominids at Olorgesailie in Kenya since excavations 

 were initiated at this site by the Leakeys 50 years ago. 



June 



■ Volunteers Twenty-four men and women completed 

 the National Museum of African Art's nine-month 

 docent training program. The museum now has 88 

 weekday and weekend docents. 



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■ Internships The Office of Fellowships and Grants 

 negotiated a second-year contract with the Quality 

 Education for Minorities Network to sponsor three 

 interns to come to the Institution. 



June 



■ Tour The Archives of American Art Detroit Council 

 organized the members' art tour, "A Splash of Sunshine 



