April 15 



Fellowships: The Office of Fellowships and Grants designated 101 1986-87 

 fellowship recipients. 



April 18-20 



Special Event: The Smithsonian Women's Committee sponsored the fourth annual 

 Washington Craft Show, a juried show with 100 craftspeople participating. 

 Proceeds from the show and the preview night party were used to fund various 

 educational and research projects throughout the Smithsonian. 



April 21 



Special Event: The Mayor of Nuremburg, Germany, attended the opening celebration 

 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum for the exhibition "Toys from the Spielzeug Museum." 



April 23 



Special, Event: "Sailing Ships and Old Salts," a weekend family festival 

 featuring sea chanteys and demonstrations and workshops on maritime-related arts 

 and crafts was held at the National Museum of Natural History in conjunction with 

 the exhibition "Magnificent Voyagers." 



April 24 



Restoration: The first phase of the reconstructed Olmsted Walk was completed by 

 the contractor and accepted by the National Zoological Park. 



April 25 



Exhibitions: Two exhibitions, "Portraits by Brady: Imperial Photographs from the 

 Harvard College library" and "John Frazee, Sculptor," opened at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. 



April 28 



Special Event: Cooper-Hewitt Museum celebrated the opening of the exhibition 

 "Bon Voyage: Designs for Travel" and the accompanying catalog, made possible 

 through the generosity of the Louis Vuittcn Company. 



April 30 



Exhibition: "Robert Ameson: A Retrospective" opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and 

 Sculpture Garden with 68 works by this California sculptor, the first major East 

 Coast shewing for the artist. Opening activities included a lecture by the 

 exhibition's curator, Neil Benezra of the Art Institute of Chicago. 



May 



Exhibition: Recent field research on the art of the Banana people of Mali 

 resulted in an exhibition titled, "A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana 



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